Best of 2012: Crime
The Innocent Man
The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.
Pamela Colloff Texas Monthly 50min
The Truck Stop Killer
As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.
Vanessa Veselka GQ 30min
The Worst Marriage in Georgetown
The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.
The Man Who Charged Himself With Murder
Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.
Jennifer Gonnerman New York 20min
Bad to the Bone
A medical device company experiments on humans.
Mina Kimes Fortune 30min