I n sleepy, suburban Saugus, Massachusetts, sisters Robyn D’Apolito and Nicole MacTaggart pack up the car, getting ready to meet about 30 members of their friends and family at Castle Rock Park in Marblehead. It’s July 2022, high season for the New England shore, but this isn’t a typical trip …
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In March 2022, Kim Devins received a Facebook message from a British producer named Rory Barker from Plum Pictures, asking if she wanted to take part in a documentary about her daughter, Bianca. Devins has received a lot of messages like this over the years. Since the brutal murder of …
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Martin Scorsese’s newest epic, Killers of the Flower Moon, ends with a prescient kind of warning to an industry that would explode 100 years after the events of the film: true crime. It seemingly tells the viewer that, in a realm focused on death and destruction, it’s vital to remember …
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This week, Joran van der Sloot pleaded guilty to charges of extortion and wire fraud, related to the 2005 disappearance of Alabama high schooler Natalee Holloway. With the plea, Van der Sloot, who is already serving 28 years in Peru for the death of another young woman, also confessed to …
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W hen Sara Benincasa first met Ben Kissel in 2010, she was smitten with him almost immediately. Tall and handsome with boyish features, a six-foot-seven-inch frame, and an aw-shucks Midwestern mien, Kissel was working as a stand-up comic in New York City, just like she was at the time; they …
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As you might expect, news travels fast in a town of eleven people. As you also might expect, tensions can run high. Close quarters and all that. And when one of those eleven people (and his dog) go missing without a trace, finger-pointing is inevitable, especially when everyone seems to …
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Before Aug. 30, Ruby Franke was best known as the incredibly strict mother behind “8 Passengers,” a popular family YouTube channel from Utah with over 2 million subscribers. Now, all eyes are on the controversial vlogger for another reason: six felony charges of aggravated child abuse, each of which carries …
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It’s a little after midnight on a cold winter night. I’m in someone else’s van, driving down a highway I’ve never seen before.I’m on my way to pick up a load of marijuana and transport it across state lines. What could go wrong? The trip was organized at the last …
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When homeowners in suburban Utah called the police on Aug. 30, they were just trying to help a young boy. Police reports from that day detail that a 12-year-old had escaped from a nearby house and asked neighbors for help but appeared to be “emaciated, malnourished,” and had “open wounds,” …
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New York Gov. Kathy Hochul has directed the state police to investigate the 50-year-old disappearance of a teen couple that headed to one of the biggest concerts in rock history. Sen. Chuck Schumer has also asked the Federal Bureau of Investigation to look into the case. A recent Rolling Stone …
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