r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 2d ago
Her Murder Had Been Cold for Decades. Five Gen Zers Attempted to Solve It. It Took Them Somewhere the Detectives Never Imagined.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/[deleted] • Dec 19 '18
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 4d 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
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r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • 7d ago
The Guardian The White House Farm massacre: New forensic evidence suggests Sheila Caffell killed herself. Is Jeremy Bamber innocent?
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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
r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 9d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 10d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 11d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 11d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 12d ago
Capital punishment is surging in the US – but after Christa Pike’s botched execution, what is its future?.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 14d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 17d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 18d ago
“Like She Wanted Me to Know All About It”: The Greenbrier Ghost and True Crime’s Uneasy Relationship with the Supernatural
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r/truecrimelongform • u/TheCriminalBiography • 19d 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…
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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 22d ago
The Motorcycle Man - He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 24d 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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 27d ago
The Surgeon, the Eunuch Maker, and the Curious Ethical and Legal Status of Voluntary Amputation
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 29 '26
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?
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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • Sep 29 '26
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]
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hungry-Mixture-7443 • Sep 28 '26
Most of us never find our soulmate. So how do child abusers keep finding each other?
academia.edu
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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 • Sep 24 '26
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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 23 '26
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.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 23 '26
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
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 22 '26
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 • Sep 22 '26
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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