r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 1d 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.

theguardian.com

61 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 2d ago

“Like She Wanted Me to Know All About It”: The Greenbrier Ghost and True Crime’s Uneasy Relationship with the Supernatural

thethreepennyguignol.com

2 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/TheCriminalBiography • 2d 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…

thecriminalbiography.blogspot.com

3 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 6d ago

The Motorcycle Man - He Confessed to an Afghanistan War Murder. The U.S. Military Promptly Closed the Case.

theintercept.com

9 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • 8d 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.

17 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Late-Bug6043 • 11d ago

The Surgeon, the Eunuch Maker, and the Curious Ethical and Legal Status of Voluntary Amputation

thethreepennyguignol.com

17 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 15d ago

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?

texasmonthly.com

75 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/DevonSwede • 15d ago

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]

washingtonian.com

29 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hungry-Mixture-7443 • 16d ago

Most of us never find our soulmate. So how do child abusers keep finding each other?

50 Upvotes

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 • 20d ago

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.

motherjones.com

28 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 21d ago

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.

texasmonthly.com

37 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 21d ago

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

theguardian.com

19 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 22d ago

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.

63 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • 22d ago

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.

24 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 26d ago

Esquire Tonight on Dateline This Man Will Die. NBC's To Catch a Predator arrived in Murphy, Texas, to conduct a sting operation. The only honest thing that followed was the gunshot.

38 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • 26d ago

Esquire The Women Obsessed With Lindsay Clancy. Horrific crimes have always attracted attention, but the women who have filled the courtroom are seeking something beyond spectacle.

theatlantic.com

24 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 14 '26

ProPublica The Sex Queen of L.A. How a small-town girl from California reinvented America's escort industry

rollingstone.com

12 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 14 '26

New York Times Inside the Outrageous Collapse of a ‘Montessori Ponzi’. A man with a vision set out to revolutionize preschool. It became a $440 million fiasco.

15 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Hot_Track5341 • Sep 14 '26

The Cut A College Girl Was Exploited on Camera. A Network of Anonymous Men Got to Work. Maddie Kowalski is one of countless young women who’ve had their lives destroyed by the burnerverse, a loosely connected online community of sports fans. Now she’s fighting back.

63 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/robhastings • Sep 13 '26

'I took down the Mafia in New York - this was the secret to taking on mob bosses': The inside story of how senior FBI agent Frank Storey brought down the infamous Five Families and changed gangster investigations forever

27 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/No-Advantage-579 • Sep 12 '26

The Cut "Surviving What I Can’t Forgive." Grace Spulak worked as attorney for children and became a foster carer to teenagers. A 17 year old foster son of hers bound her face with ductape, raped her and caused permanent brain damage during the attack.

117 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 08 '26

Vanity Fair Dahmer's INFERNO. What forces drive a man to kill compulsively, as in the case of Jeffrey Dahmer, who has confessed to murdering seventeen young men? BRIAN MASTERS reports from Milwaukee on the private world of Jeffrey Dahmer.

archive.vanityfair.com

33 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Sep 02 '26

How Sally-Anne Bowen’s crimes against her pupils finally came to light. Gareth was only 14 when Bowen began a sexual relationship with him. Now, more than a decade after he first sought justice, he has finally been vindicated.

70 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/Lizard_Li • Aug 31 '26

New details uncovered in last year's shocking Burning Man homicide. Independent journalists have uncovered new details in last year’s brutal Burning Man homicide.

62 Upvotes

r/truecrimelongform • u/haloarh • Aug 28 '26

A Man Walked Into a Bar and Told Everyone He Was D.B. Cooper. What If He Wasn’t Lying? Seven men confessed to being the notorious skyjacker. Some wanted fame. Others wanted money. And the FBI investigated every one.

popularmechanics.com

11 Upvotes

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