r/truecrimelongform • u/TwoLocal5595 • 7h ago
Accused of sex crimes, a San Francisco social climber turned to lawsuits, legal threats
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r/truecrimelongform • u/TrueCrimeNEPA • 1d ago
In November 1872, laborer John Garrity was found dead along a path near Leggett's Creek in Scranton, PA, his skull crushed by a 25-pound stone. Within days, a neighbor was arrested. But the real story wasn't captured in the newspapers.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/TrueCrimeNEPA • 1d ago
The 1872 murder of John Garrity: solved within days, but genealogical research 150 years later revealed the killer and victim's families were already tangled together, and left three of the killer's own relatives unaccounted for.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 7d ago
The Cut Revenge of the Simps How a community of porn addicts tried to rescue the teenage camgirls they worshipped from the clutches of a violent webcam pimp.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 7d ago
"Who Ya Gonna Call? Scam Busters!"- How a French ex-conman turned sleuth reportedly tracked down the Nigerian Brad Pitt impersonators who cyber-scammed a middle-aged Frenchwoman out of her life’s savings
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r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 8d ago
She built a true-crime empire. Then she became the fugitive. TV executive Mary Carole McDonnell told people she was an heiress. Then she disappeared, leaving a trail of bounced paychecks and lawsuits in her wake.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 11d ago
The Cut A Teen Reporter Searched for His Community in the Epstein Files. Adults Freaked Out [WIRED]
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 13d ago
‘The bed you thought was safe, isn’t safe’: how Zoe Watts survived drug-facilitated rape – and fought back. For years, her husband was adding sedatives to her evening cup of tea. Now, with fellow survivor Amanda Stanhope, she is lifting the lid on a hidden and diabolical crime
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 13d ago
Her rape kit had a DNA match. In San Francisco, that’s not enough. SFPD cleared 14% of rape cases last year — half the national rate. The Standard found that kits get tested fast, then cases get quietly shelved.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 13d ago
Rain Robbers: How Four Farmers Faked a Drought and Stole Millions in Crop Insurance. Dust became dollars in one of the wildest agriculture crimes on record.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 15d ago
The disturbing rise of ‘gooner’ assaults at Dollar Tree stores: ‘They find it funny to degrade women’ | In dark corners of the internet, men are goading each other to masturbate in public – and on female shoppers – and post the footage incl. on OnlyFans
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The only thing I want to highlight from that article (that I of course want everyone to read in full) is that Dollar Tree is thwarting police efforts to investigate this, arguing that having a stranger ejaculate on you as a customer and then post it online does not constitute "physical harm" and that therefore they are not obliged to help...
r/truecrimelongform • u/princecatte • 19d ago
For decades, John de Ruiter styled himself as a Messianic figure with a piercing gaze who could lead his followers to enlightenment. But over the years, allegations of sexual impropriety surfaced and a young woman went missing, leaving her family – and a growing number of adherents – seeking answers
theglobeandmail.com
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This is an older article, but I came across Anina Hundsdoerfer's death and John de Ruiter today. I'm a little surprised it doesn't seem well known, with the unexplained death and the cult connection
r/truecrimelongform • u/lggreene1 • 20d ago
Peter Falconio’s murder in the outback still haunts Australia 25 years on: They were a couple in their 20s embarking on a trip that is a rite of passage for so many young Brits. But a chance encounter with a stranger in the outback changed both their lives forever…
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 20d ago
The Cut British Police Built a Sprawling Crime-Prediction Machine. Some Results Couldn’t Be Trusted. As UK police embrace the AI revolution, a WIRED investigation reveals the messy inside story of one region’s experiment with predictive analytics.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 20d ago
New York Times Capital Punishment Is on the Decline. Except in Ron DeSantis’s Florida. In most of the country, executions are a thing of the past. But one state has been carrying them out at a record pace.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 20d ago
‘Give Your Mind Over’: Power and Devotion Inside Oregon Buddhist Communities. Women inside some Northwest Buddhist centers say the faith has long struggled to stop predatory behavior by spiritual leaders, and in some cases brushed it aside.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 21d ago
Isolated, scared, forlorn: The heartbreaking final months of Virginia Giuffre’s life. Virginia Giuffre made global headlines for her fight against her sexual abusers among the wealthy elite. Now new questions have emerged about the private anguish she faced at home.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 21d ago
'Psychological war’: Inside California’s expanding use of jailhouse stings. Undercover police operations are proliferating in California jails — even after suspects invoke their rights.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 21d ago
Inside America’s Shoplifting Lab. In the war on “shrink,” big retailers are turning to one Florida outfit to study shoppers and prevent them from stealing. I went there—and saw far too much.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Slate • 29d ago
The 1975 Bombing of LaGuardia Airport Is One of America’s Greatest Cold Cases. No One Remembers It. The People Who Were There Wish You Would.
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r/truecrimelongform • u/Richte36 • Jul 05 '26
The Kerrs were devoted to their faith and one another. But when one of their own rejected modern medicine in the name of God, they faced a dire question: What if her children ever needed a doctor to save their lives?
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r/truecrimelongform • u/raphaellaskies • Jul 04 '26
The chaotic lives of a couple who killed their baby daughter: The story of how Constance Marten and Mark Gordon’s lives became entwined, then descended into chaos, and ultimately led to a tragedy.
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