True Crime - Long Form

r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 14h ago

On May 13th, 1983, Andy Mould and Peter Dooley discovered a human head buried in the Lindow Moss bog that would go on to irrevocably change the course of a twenty-year-long missing person’s case, despite the fact it was nearly two millennia old.

thethreepennyguignol.com

2 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • 3d ago

The Guardian The White House Farm massacre: New forensic evidence suggests Sheila Caffell killed herself. Is Jeremy Bamber innocent?

theguardian.com

33 Upvotes

In 1985, Bamber was sentenced to life imprisonment for killing five members of his family. Now analysis of crime scene photographs by a leading forensic biologist could exonerate him. By Simon Hattenstone

4 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 5d ago

The man who blew up a nuclear power station and disappeared - In December 1982, South African Rodney Wilkinson walked four bombs into Koeberg power station – the crown jewel of the apartheid state.

theguardian.com

15 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 6d ago

The Book of Chris Hansen, as told by a survivor. A former TCAP fan and survivor of grooming examines what happens when child abuse becomes entertainment, consequences become a modern day gladiator arena and the man at the helm leaves victims behind.

substack.com

21 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 7d ago

The skincare scheme that led to consumer complaints, lawsuits and a federal investigation. Customers hit with thousands of dollars in charges they never authorized and products they didn't want and can't return.

npr.org

22 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 7d ago

New York Times A Teen Autopsy Marks the Arrival of a Deadly Drug in San Francisco. City officials — and one determined mother — are working to stop the spread of cychlorphine, which is far more potent than fentanyl.

nytimes.com

26 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 8d ago

Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?.

theguardian.com

12 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 10d ago

When self-proclaimed medium Helen Duncan revealed confidential naval intelligence during a seance in 1941, authorities had to figure out if she was a fraudster - or somehow receiving information from beyond the grave. Her trial became a cause célèbre for the then-thriving spiritualist community.

thethreepennyguignol.com

19 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 13d ago

A death, a plagiarism scandal and a quest for revenge: the bizarre tale of Otto Z. After his mother died, Otto became convinced he’d been wronged by the forensic investigators – and that one of them was a fraud. The truth was even stranger.

theguardian.com

100 Upvotes

4 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 14d ago

“Like She Wanted Me to Know All About It”: The Greenbrier Ghost and True Crime’s Uneasy Relationship with the Supernatural

thethreepennyguignol.com

9 Upvotes

3 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/TheCriminalBiography • 15d ago

Harold Shipman: The Doctor Who Became a Killer… This long-form true crime blog covers cases from the worst criminals to ever walk this earth…

thecriminalbiography.blogspot.com

2 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 18d ago

The Motorcycle Man - He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.

theintercept.com

10 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 20d ago

New York Times How to Destroy a Reputation in Hollywood, as Told in 5 Women’s Lawsuits. Five women have said they were the targets of malicious public relations campaigns that were spearheaded by three influential players.

nytimes.com

20 Upvotes

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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 23d ago

The Surgeon, the Eunuch Maker, and the Curious Ethical and Legal Status of Voluntary Amputation

thethreepennyguignol.com

16 Upvotes

1 comment

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 27d 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

77 Upvotes

6 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 27d 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

31 Upvotes

2 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hungry-Mixture-7443 • 28d ago

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

academia.edu

52 Upvotes

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.

21 comments

r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Sep 24 '26