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The Secret Life of Johnny Lewis
He was a Hollywood actor who had it all—including a dark side that led to a grisly murder.
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Who Killed the Jeff Davis 8?
A serial killer has allegedly been preying on Louisiana prostitutes. But a new investigation reveals a far scarier theory.
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What Happened to Shelly Miscavige, Scientology’s Missing Queen?
Many Scientologists regarded David Miscavige’s wife to be a “shock absorber” for her husband’s temper. Until late 2006.
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How much my novel cost me
Writing my first book got me into debt. To finish the next one, I had to become solvent
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The Murders at the Lake
In 1982 three teenagers were killed near the shores of Lake Waco in a seemingly inexplicable crime. More than three decades later, the tragic and disturbing case still casts a long, dark shadow.
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The Game That Saved March Madness
Princeton’s near-upset of Georgetown in a 1989 first-round game made sure Cinderella would always get invited to the ball.
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A Death in the Texas Desert
Residents of Terlingua mourned the murder of the town's most popular bar owner. Then, as conflicting accounts of the victim and his last night emerged, they started picking sides.
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My Childhood on Inmate Island
Growing up on a remote prison compound made for an oddball upbringing, but the hardest thing I ever had to do was leave.
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Burger King Is Run by Children
Last summer a trim guy with wavy brown hair, high cheekbones, and a broad smile could be found making Whoppers, working the drive-through window, and scrubbing bathrooms at a Burger King in Miami. His name was Daniel Schwartz. He learned to make a Whopper in less than 35 seconds and blended in well with his fellow employees, except for the fact that Schwartz had a guy with a video camera trailing him. “I cleaned about 15 toilets in the past two days,” he boasted at one point, as if he’d just com
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The Witness
For more than a decade, Michelle Lyons’s job required her to watch condemned criminals be put to death. After 278 executions, she won't ever be the same.
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What Happened to Motorola
How a culture shift nearly doomed an iconic local company that once dominated the telecom industry.
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Can Staten Island’s middle-class neighborhoods defeat an overdose epidemic?
“The silent sniper fire of overdoses from pills and heroin has hit Staten Island harder than anyplace else in the city.” Ian Frazier reports.
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On Bigfoot's Trail
How do you believe in something that — to the rest of the world — doesn't exist?
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Murder in the Meth Lab?
What began as a supposedly routine search of this single-wide in the Tennessee woods took a terrible turn when one cop shot his partner dead. Was it just a tragic accident—or was it premeditated, cold-blooded murder?
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Who Is Su
She was 22 when her memory was obliterated. Twenty-six years later, Su Meck is still learning about the family she raised and the husband she has no recollection of marrying.
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The Self-Made Man: The Story of America’s Most Pliable, Pernicious, Irrepressible Myth
In 1990, Susan Orlean published a book called Saturday Night, in which she set out to document how Americans spend their weekly reprieve from work. “Saturday night,” she wrote, “is when you want to do what you want to do and not what you have to do.” One thing people want to do on Saturday night is go out to dinner, so Orlean dedicated a chapter to the restaurant experience. She set this section of the book at the Hilltop Steakhouse, in Saugus, Massachusetts.
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Sex Is Sex. But Money Is Money.
Escorts make $100 a hand job — but entrepreneurs like me? We make $5,000 a night. Welcome to the new economy of the oldest profession.
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The Spy Who Scammed Us?
Jamie Smith says he was recruited into the CIA as an undergraduate at Ole Miss, cofounded Blackwater, and has done clandestine intelligence work all over the world, operating out of a counterterrorism boot camp in the woods of north Mississippi. Plenty of people believed him, including the Air Force (which paid him $7 million to train personnel) and William Morrow, which signed him up to write his memoir. There's just one little question: How much of it is true?
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The Heartbreak And Confusion Of A 19-Year Missing Child Case
As if losing a child to kidnapping wasn’t horrifying enough, ineffective law enforcement agencies and predatory private investigators only add to the confusion and pain. Deana Hebert’s long, maddening search for her daughter — and the ex-husband who took her — may be the rule, not the exception.
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The Lost Sister
Where is Santa Iris Guzman? The question had taken on almost folklore status in Mellisa Sanchez’s family. Like a precious heirloom, it was passed down through four generations, ever since a summer day in 1949, when the little girl with the big brown eyes and soft curls disappeared in Mayagüez, Puerto Rico.
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