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Motorcycle Gang Busted for Hacking and Stealing Over 150 Jeep Wranglers
The FBI has arrested members of a motorcycle gang accused to have hacked and stolen over 150 Jeep Wranglers from Southern California, which they later crossed the border into Mexico to have stripped down for parts. By Catalin Cimpanu. (May 31, 2017)
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Feds probing psychiatric hospitals for locking in patients to boost profits
At least three federal agencies are looking into Universal Health Services. By Beth Mole.
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Isdal Woman: The mystery death haunting Norway for 46 years
How a Nordic mystery death led to a trail of coded messages, disguises, and fake identities. By Helier Cheung.
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In Defense Of Skepticism Around Alleged Chemical Attack In Syria
Governments are known to fabricate when it comes to war. So why is it acceptable to demonize those skeptical about the April 4 chemical attack in Syria? By Kevin Gosztola.
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Secret Crime-Fighter Revealed to Be 1930s Physicist
Nine recently unearthed notebooks record the true scope of work done by the mysterious forensics pioneer called “Detective X.” By Veronique Greenwood.
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The Strange, Spectacular Con of Bobby Charles Thompson
A look inside the hunt to catch one of the country’s biggest con men. By Daniel Fromson.
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The Amateur Historian Who Uncovered Ireland’s Mass Grave of Babies
The dogged effort of a determined historian in a small Irish town uncovered one of the greatest tragedies in modern Irish history. By Tom Sykes.
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Dangerous Fruit: Mystery of Deadly Outbreaks in India Is Solved
Researchers had suspected that heat stroke, infections or pesticides were behind a disease that killed about 40 percent of children affected, but it seems lychees were to blame. By Ellen Barry.
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Woman Who Made $1M in Designer Handbag Scheme Sentenced to 30 Months in Prison
Praepitcha Smatsorabudh, a woman who made more than $1 million in a multi-year scheme in which she purchased designer purses from department stores, then returned counterfeit versions to get her money back, has been sentenced to over two years in prison.
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The Baffling Master Plan of the French Truck Terrorist
Last July, France witnessed a new kind of mass murder when a man steered a cargo truck into a crowd and killed 86 people in the beach resort of Nice. The French government said the killer was a jihadist, but the truth is a lot stranger. By Scott Sayare.
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On the trail of the Man in the Iron Mask
Trying to discover the identity of the man in the iron mask. By David Coward.
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How hospitals, nursing homes keep deadly ‘superbug’ outbreaks secret
Vague rules give healthcare providers leeway in deciding when, or even whether, to report clusters of infections. And when they do, the public rarely knows. By Deborah J. Nelson, David Rohde, Benjamin Lesser and Ryan McNeill.
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The Paramedic Murderer of Narrowsburg, N.Y.
A small town upstate, a Queens ambulance veteran, and a murder. By Nina Burleigh. (Apr. 10, 2014)
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The Obsessed, Feuding Searchers Still Looking for Amelia Earhart
She and her navigator disappeared nearly 80 years ago. By Erik Shilling.
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Family’s quest for truth reveals top insurer’s link to SS death camps
Dina Gold researched her family’s Berlin past – and uncovered a dark secret dating from the Nazi era. By Michael Freedland.
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A Bigfoot hunter on how to have smart political discourse
Ranae Holland, a host of Animal Planet’s “Finding Bigfoot,” had a sense Hillary Clinton wouldn’t win the election. By Bill Radke and Matt Martin.
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An Ex-Cop’s Remorse
An investigator who probes wrongful convictions now doubts a case of his own. By Stephanie Clifford,
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The Contestant
The disappearance of Ruth Thalía Sayas Sánchez. By Daniel Alarcón.
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Breakdown at 30,000 Feet
Thousands of people flew Allegiant last year thinking their planes wouldn’t fail in the air. They were wrong. By Nathaniel Lash, William R. Levesque and Anthony Cormier.
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James Comey, Hillary Clinton, and the Email Investigation: A Guide for the Perplexed
Yesterday, FBI Director James Comey threw the presidential election campaign into turmoil with a letter to Congress declaring that the Clinton email matter was, perhaps, not entirely done after all. By Jack Goldsmith, Benjamin Wittes.
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