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How the &#39;Hottest Boy&#39; in Town Became a Serial Killer
How the 'Hottest Boy' in Town
Became a Serial Killer
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Mar 7, 2020 1:30 PM CST

How the 'Hottest Boy' in Town Became a Serial Killer

'Philadelphia Magazine' takes a deep dive into Cosmo DiNardo's downward spiral

(Newser) - On July 6, 2017, Cosmo DiNardo met with his psychiatrist at the University of Pennsylvania. Christian Kohler had been treating the 20-year-old since November and had gradually been decreasing the anti-psychotic drugs the Bucks County man took for the bipolar disorder, schizoaffective disorder, and schizophrenia that he had only recently...

We Still Don&#39;t Why This Boat Tragedy Happened
Cause of One of Worst US Boat
Tragedies Is Still a Mystery
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Mar 1, 2020 10:30 AM CST

Cause of One of Worst US Boat Tragedies Is Still a Mystery

34 people on diving excursion were killed off the California coast last year

(Newser) - "Mayday, mayday, mayday." Those three words sent at 3:14am on Sept. 2 were the first inkling of the tragedy unfolding aboard a boat anchored near Santa Cruz Island off the California coast. As a story at Outside recounts, 34 people would die after fire broke out aboard...

After Gamer&#39;s Shocking Confession, 4 Bodies Found
After Gamer's Shocking
Confession, 4 Bodies Found
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Feb 27, 2020 3:33 PM CST

After Gamer's Shocking Confession, 4 Bodies Found

'Toronto Life' pieces together the story of a young man's alleged massacre of his family

(Newser) - His fellow gamers thought he was joking. “I killed mom and granny so far, waiting for sister in 5 minutes and dad in 1 hour,” wrote 23-year-old Menhaz Zaman on the Discord app last year. Later, came, "I’ve just slaughtered my entire family," followed by...

He Believed Her Story About the Rich Relative&mdash;for 4 Years
He Believed Her Story About
the Rich Relative—for 4 Years
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Feb 23, 2020 1:00 PM CST

He Believed Her Story About the Rich Relative—for 4 Years

Mair Smyth's con was a long one

(Newser) - To American Ninja Warrior producer Johnathan Walton, Mair Smyth seemed to be what she said she was. She would show him texts sent by friends Ashley Judd and Jennifer Aniston. She opened up about her Irish family, and the great-uncle whose recent death meant she'd be getting a slice...

Lori Vallow's Dead Husband Claimed She Said Odd Things

Like that she 'cannot taste death'

(Newser) - The case of Lori Vallow's missing kids has made headlines for months—and the Idaho mom's gallivanting around Hawaii with current husband Chad Daybell has grabbed press in recent days. They're the couple who fled Idaho in November as police began asking questions about Lori's 7-year-old...

CIA Dosed Whitey Bulger With LSD More Than 50 Times

One of his jurors says she now regrets convicting him for murder

(Newser) - The notorious crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger terrorized Boston from the 1970s into the 1990s with a campaign of murder, extortion, and drug trafficking, then spent 16 years on the lam before being captured. In 2013, Janet Uhlar was one of 12 jurors who found Bulger guilty in a...

How JFK Engineered His Own Pulitzer
JFK's Pulitzer
May Say a Lot
About His
Character
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Feb 11, 2020 1:44 PM CST

JFK's Pulitzer May Say a Lot About His Character

But not in a flattering way, according to a new book

(Newser) - It's common knowledge these days that John F. Kennedy wasn't the primary author of the book for which he won the 1957 Pulitzer in biography, Profiles in Courage. Instead, the young senator's speechwriter, Ted Sorensen, wrote it almost in entirety, with minor contributions from Kennedy, writes Craig...

CIA Had an Incredibly Easy Way to Spy on Nations
CIA Had an Incredibly Easy
Way to Spy on Nations
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Feb 11, 2020 9:01 AM CST

CIA Had an Incredibly Easy Way to Spy on Nations

Agency secretly owned a tech firm that stored governments' secrets

(Newser) - A fascinating story in the Washington Post sounds like the far-fetched plot of a spy thriller. But it's all true: The piece details how the CIA, with help from West Germany, was able to read the secret communications of other nations with surprising ease for more than 50 years....

One Key to Buttigieg's Success: This Young Adviser

'New York' profiles Lis Smith

(Newser) - Compared to most of the others in the race, Pete Buttigieg is just a kid at 38. But one key to his surprisingly successful campaign to date is that he has an even younger adviser—37-year-old Lis Smith. In a profile at New York , Clare Malone profiles Smith and the...

She Scored a Hit for a Friend. Then Came the Text

A lengthy look at overdose-homicide prosecutions

(Newser) - Jamie Maynard has been clean for three years, a feat she credits in part to having gone to prison, where she got off heroin. But in a lengthy piece for the New Yorker , Paige Williams makes the case that she should have never been behind bars. The Ohio woman was...

Utah&#39;s Tourism Campaign May Have Worked Too Well
Utah Wooed Tourists,
and Boy, Did They Swarm
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Feb 4, 2020 7:47 AM CST

Utah Wooed Tourists, and Boy, Did They Swarm

'Outside' magazine looks at the resulting congestion in parks

(Newser) - The ad was a "masterpiece," writes Mark Sundeen at Outside magazine. The 60-second spot in 2013 commissioned by Utah's Office of Tourism extolled the beauty of the "Mighty 5"—referring to the five national parks within the state's borders. Those would be Zion, Bryce...

At the Top of the World, a Very Unusual Crime
At the Top of the World,
a Very Unusual Crime
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Feb 1, 2020 11:30 AM CST

At the Top of the World, a Very Unusual Crime

Revisiting the bank robbery that shook Longyearbyen, Norway

(Newser) - Though rifles abound in Longyearbyen, Norway, the worst crimes that tended to occur were the theft of unattended boots—until late 2018, that is. In a piece for Outside Online , David Kushner takes readers to one of the northernmost settlements on the planet, a town of 2,200 that sits...

He Got a New Heart, Rode Across US as a Thank-You

'Bicycling' tells the story of one organ recipient's grand gesture

(Newser) - Christine Cheer held a stethoscope to the chest of Mike Cohen and listened to the beat of his heart. More specifically, she listened to the beat of her son's heart, which had been implanted into Cohen after her son's death. Such meetings are always remarkable, but A.C....

Jury Would Have &#39;Given Her Death Penalty in a Heartbeat&#39;
Jury Would Have 'Given Her
Death Penalty in a Heartbeat'
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Jan 25, 2020 12:16 PM CST

Jury Would Have 'Given Her Death Penalty in a Heartbeat'

A deep dive into the case of Emile Weaver

(Newser) - "After we tried that case, I think they'd have given her a death penalty in a heartbeat. That’s the effect she had on the jury." So say the Muskingum County prosecutors involved in the case of Emile Weaver, a Delta Gamma Theta sorority sister at Muskingum...

Investigation Calls Sex Abuse 'Open Secret' Among Amish

But women are beginning to come forward

(Newser) - It is not the typical image that comes to mind in regard to bucolic Amish communities. But a story by Type Investigations and Cosmopolitan reports that sexual abuse, including incest, is an "open secret spanning generations" among the Amish. The investigation cites a slew of factors that lead to...

Odd Detail in 60-Year Mystery: Skin the Color of Bricks
The 9 Were Found Dead.
We Still Don't Know Why
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Jan 19, 2020 3:33 PM CST

The 9 Were Found Dead. We Still Don't Know Why

Revisiting the Dyatlov Pass Incident

(Newser) - In 2019, Russian prosecutors announced they would be reinvestigating what's known as the Dyatlov Pass Incident : A 60-year mystery involving nine students who mysteriously died while on a skiing trip in Russia's Ural Mountains. Though scores of theories have been put forth over the years, the government is...

Inside the World of Psychic Scams
How Psychic Scammers
Pull Off the Long Con
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Jan 15, 2020 8:41 AM CST

How Psychic Scammers Pull Off the Long Con

Vulnerable clients get suckered into years-long cons, explains story at 'GQ'

(Newser) - It's only 5 bucks, right? That's how much a psychic reading might go for, so even skeptics figure it can't hurt. But for some—usually someone in a particularly vulnerable state, looking for hope—that $5 is the entry point to financial ruin. A story by Sylvia...

Mississippi System Likened to Modern Debtors&#39; Prison
Mississippi
System Likened
to Modern
Debtors' Prison
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Jan 12, 2020 10:20 AM CST

Mississippi System Likened to Modern Debtors' Prison

Marshall Project takes a critical look at state's court-ordered restitution program

(Newser) - Debtors' prison may sound like a concept from another century. But the Marshall Project asserts that Mississippi is running a court-ordered restitution program that is essentially the same thing. The investigation found that judges sentence hundreds of people a year to one of four "restitution centers" around the state....

Inside the Dentist's Murder That Rattled Uptown Dallas

Brenda Delgado orchestrated the killing of her ex's new love

(Newser) - In 2015, a gunman fatally shot 35-year-old pediatric dentist Kendra Hatcher in a Dallas parking garage and took her purse. The murder and robbery shook the Uptown neighborhood where Hatcher had lived among other well-to-do young adults, writes Skip Hollandsworth at Texas Monthly . Young women were suddenly leery about strolling...

Hacker Who Paralyzed a Nation About to Go Free
His Epic Hack Paralyzed
a Nation. He's About to Go Free
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Jan 5, 2020 10:00 AM CST

His Epic Hack Paralyzed a Nation. He's About to Go Free

Daniel Kaye took down Liberia's internet as part of a corporate plot

(Newser) - In November of 2016, a friend sent Daniel Kaye a message asking him how things were going. "I have broken the Internet and am dead afraid but otherwise everything’s hunky dory," wrote Kaye in response. As a story at Bloomberg explains, the British 29-year-old wasn't exaggerating...

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