Airbnb's Nightmare
When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.
When things go horribly wrong during a stay, the company’s secretive safety team jumps in to soothe guests and hosts, help families—and prevent PR disasters.
Olivia Carville Bloomberg Businessweek Jun 2021 20min Permalink
On America’s interstates, brazen bands of thieves steal 18-wheelers filled with computers, cell phones, even toilet paper. And select law enforcement teams are tasked with tracking them down.
Dylan Taylor-Lehman Narratively Sep 2020 15min Permalink
George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.
Lee van der Doo, David Wolman Daily Beast Feb 2019 30min Permalink
Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history.
Michael Finkel GQ Feb 2019 35min Permalink
The true story of a ring of thieves who stole millions of dollars’ worth of luxury watches—and the special agent who brought them down.
Amy Wallace GQ Oct 2018 25min Permalink
Lost love and a robbery.
Sara Batkie Lit Hub Sep 2018 10min Permalink
His father was a notorious figure in Providence organized crime. Boxing offered a different path for Jarrod Tillinghast—but it didn’t stop him from slipping into his old ways and robbing drug dealers with his neighborhood friends.
Tim Struby Victory Journal Dec 2017 20min Permalink
Almost ten years after his kidnapping, a man writes to the people who threatened his life.
Bradford Pearson Philadelphia Magazine Sep 2015 20min Permalink
Three months before it all started, she'd been a shy sophomore at Aurora Central High School, a member of the soccer and speech teams. Then Randy Miller had come out of prison and back into her world. A 22-year-old former child prostitute and drug dealer, Miller had promised to take her away from a tumultuous and painful home life. But the journey he had in mind led downward, into a terrifying series of home invasions and armed robberies and, finally, a few hours after the King Soopers stickup, to a standoff with state troopers in a small Kansas town.
Alan Prendergast Westword Feb 2012 Permalink