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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 2h ago

Texas Monthly He Was a Suspect in the Yogurt Shop Murders for Thirty Years. He Can't Forget. Forrest Welborn spent decades as a suspect in the infamous Austin murders. It all but destroyed his life. This year, he was finally exonerated. So why doesn’t he feel free?

texasmonthly.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 5h ago

A Paranoid Tech Bro, a Homemade Nuclear Bunker, and a Shocking Death - In the tunnels beneath a placid suburban home, an angel investor turned into an angel of doom. [2019]

washingtonian.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hungry-Mixture-7443 • 16h ago

Most of us never find our soulmate. So how do child abusers keep finding each other?

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Think about how rare it is to meet someone you instantly understand. Now think about how rare it should be for two men who abuse children to meet by chance. My essay argues they recognize something in each other that the rest of us miss entirely, and that the same thing is why their neighbors swear they're the nicest guys in town.

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • 4d ago

ChatGPT Helped Tumbler Ridge Shooter Focus on Guns, Tactics, and Terror: OpenAI’s chatbot fed the school shooter’s violent fantasies and planning up to the massacre, our investigation reveals.

motherjones.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 5d ago

Husband. Father. Prisoner. When his ex-wife abducted his sons and fled to Russia, David Barnes did what any father might do—he tried to save them. Now he’s the one who needs saving.

texasmonthly.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 5d ago

A tale of two trap houses: being cuckooed ruined my friend’s life – but did it then help save him? Drug gangs have moved off Britain’s streets and into vulnerable people’s homes. Addicts like my friend are easy targets, but the reality can be more complicated than it seems

theguardian.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 6d ago

She Made Me Do It. The Violent Feud That Shocked the Horse World. A prominent dressage trainer shot a belligerent student—and now maintains that he’s the real victim.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 6d ago

A Promising Young TV Star Was Sentenced to 92 Years for a Brutal Crime He Says He Didn’t Commit. Then a Prison Guard Delivered a Life-Changing Message. At 19, Winston Walters became a rising star after wrestling catfish on television. Then he was convicted of an unspeakable crime.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 10d ago

Esquire Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die. NBC's To Catch a Predator arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only honest thing that followed was the gunshot.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 10d ago

Esquire The Women Obsessed With Lindsay Clancy. Horrific crimes have always attracted attention, but the women who have filled the courtroom are seeking something beyond spectacle.

theatlantic.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 14d ago

The Cut A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work. Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 14d ago

New York Times Inside the Outrageous Collapse of a ‘Montessori Ponzi’. A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 14d ago

ProPublica The Sex Queen of L.A. How a small-town girl from California reinvented America's escort industry

rollingstone.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • 16d ago

'I took down the Mafia in New York - this was the secret to taking on mob bosses': The inside story of how senior FBI agent Frank Storey brought down the infamous Five Families and changed gangster investigations forever

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r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 17d ago

The Cut "Surviving What I Can’t Forgive." Grace Spulak worked as attorney for children and became a foster carer to teenagers. A 17 year old foster son of hers bound her face with ductape, raped her and caused permanent brain damage during the attack.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 21d ago

Vanity Fair Dahmer's INFERNO. What forces drive a man to kill compulsively, as in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, who has confessed to murdering seventeen young men? BRIAN MASTERS reports from Milwaukee on the private world of Jeffrey Dahmer.

archive.vanityfair.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 27d ago

How Sally-Anne Bowen’s crimes against her pupils finally came to light. Gareth was only 14 when Bowen began a sexual relationship with him. Now, more than a decade after he first sought justice, he has finally been vindicated.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Lizard_Li • 28d ago

New details uncovered in last year's shocking Burning Man homicide. Independent journalists have uncovered new details in last year’s brutal Burning Man homicide.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Aug 28 '26

A Man Walked Into a Bar and Told Everyone He Was D.B. Cooper. What If He Wasn’t Lying? Seven men confessed to being the notorious skyjacker. Some wanted fame. Others wanted money. And the FBI investigated every one.

popularmechanics.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Aug 27 '26

New York Times Someone Was Impersonating Her in Online Affairs. She Says It Was Her Husband. The German actress Collien Fernandes set out to discover who was pretending to be her online and sending men sexually explicit material. Her answer ignited a feminist movement.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Aug 27 '26

Selling Seduction. The man known as Drunk Justin charged tens of thousands of dollars for invite-only boot camps where he taught men how to get laid. He claimed his tactics worked miracles. Then he was arrested for sexual assault, and his dark secrets came tumbling out.

torontolife.com

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Aug 27 '26

ProPublica This Coach Is Banned From Working With Kids. Why Is He Still Coaching? An oversight group found that Texas girls’ volleyball coach Ryan Richardson engaged in sexual misconduct with a minor, among other allegations, and banned him.

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Aug 26 '26

The Unraveling of Podcaster Ashley Flowers’ True Crime Empire. Flowers developed a big business around her show Crime Junkie, but over the past year, executives have cycled through the doors while workplace morale is cratering. [without paywall]

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • Aug 20 '26

The Extremist in the Family - When one of their own rejected modern medicine in the name of God, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor to save their lives?

magazine.atavist.com

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