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Men Were Convicted of Killing Their Debbie. It Was a Mistake

Politico looks at the effect of a wrongful conviction on a victim's family

(Newser) - When Ron Williamson and Dennis Fritz were found guilty of the 1982 rape and murder of Debbie Sue Carter, her devastated family found a small degree of solace in the idea that justice had been served. The Oklahoma 21-year-old had just moved into her first apartment when she was raped...

20 Years of Deception: How Larry Nassar Got Away With It

The Cut: 'The trick was to establish traditional medical credibility and then get weird'

(Newser) - It's a simple question regarding Larry Nassar, the imprisoned pedophile who raped hundreds of young gymnasts: "How did he deceive so many for so long?" The question is posed in the headline of a lengthy story at the Cut by Kerry Howley, who begins by disputing the notion...

This Story of a Lost 6-Year-Old Ended Differently
This Story of a Lost
6-Year-Old Ended Differently
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Nov 20, 2018 1:45 PM CST

This Story of a Lost 6-Year-Old Ended Differently

Cody Sheehy saved himself in 1986

(Newser) - In 1986, a 6-year-old got lost in the Oregon woods. He was found 18 hours later. On the surface, that doesn't seem like much of a story (compared to, say, this ), but what makes Cody Sheehy's ordeal different is that "he saved himself," as Emma...

He Praised the Hospital, Then Learned Truth of Wife&#39;s Death
'I Have the Most Terrible Thing
to Tell You. They Killed Laura'
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Nov 18, 2018 3:22 PM CST

'I Have the Most Terrible Thing to Tell You. They Killed Laura'

Weeks after his wife's death, Peter DeMarco learned the truth

(Newser) - There's a good chance you heard Peter DeMarco's story. Or, at least, the first version of it. The Massachusetts man received national press after a heartfelt thank-you he wrote to the employees of CHA Cambridge Hospital was published in the New York Times. In it, he extolled the...

How a $1.3M Dream Home Turned Into a Nightmare
How a $1.3M Dream Home
Turned Into a Nightmare
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Nov 18, 2018 9:11 AM CST

How a $1.3M Dream Home Turned Into a Nightmare

'The Cut' digs into the story of the letters sent by the Watcher

(Newser) - In 2014, a New Jersey couple bought their dream home in Westfield, in what's ended up being one of the more headline-grabbing real estate purchases America has seen in recent years. That's all thanks to "the Watcher," an anonymous sender of creepy and ominous letters to...

A Jonestown Witness&#39;s Plea: Don&#39;t Call It &#39;Mass Suicide&#39;
A Jonestown Witness's Plea:
Don't Call It 'Mass Suicide'
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Nov 17, 2018 3:00 PM CST

A Jonestown Witness's Plea: Don't Call It 'Mass Suicide'

It was 'mass murder,' says Rep. Jackie Speier, who'd gone to Guyana on fact-finding mission

(Newser) - This month marks 40 years since the event known as the Jonestown massacre took place in Guyana. More than 900 Americans died after the man who had led them there from California, the Rev. Jim Jones, instructed them to drink cyanide. Do not, however, refer to Jonestown as a "...

He Was the First to Be Murdered on the Appalachian Trail
He Was the
First to Be Murdered
on the Appalachian Trail
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Nov 11, 2018 2:32 PM CST

He Was the First to Be Murdered on the Appalachian Trail

'Outside Online' has the story of Joel Polson and Margaret McFaddin Harritt

(Newser) - Only eight people have ever "died in acts of violence," as Earl Swift puts it, on the Appalachian Trail. In a lengthy piece for Outside Online , Swift tells the story of the first person to meet that grim fate, a story that he describes as otherwise being lost...

The School Led the Students Up Mount Hood, to Their Deaths
The School Led the Students
Up Mount Hood, to Their Deaths
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Nov 11, 2018 8:21 AM CST

The School Led the Students Up Mount Hood, to Their Deaths

Inside the 1986 tragedy on the mountain

(Newser) - The second-deadliest alpine accident in North American history claimed nine lives. Of those who died on Mount Hood in May 1986, seven were students, all of whom attended Portland's Oregon Episcopal School. At the time, the school ran a program called Basecamp that was Outward Bound-like and required all...

Teen Hackers Expose Flaw in Today&#39;s Education
Teen Hackers Expose
Flaw in Today's Education
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Nov 8, 2018 1:22 PM CST

Teen Hackers Expose Flaw in Today's Education

Pair in Michigan might have been nurtured as tech whizzes; instead, a criminal investigation

(Newser) - Education Week has picked the two latest students to profile for its "Faces of the Future" series, but they're seemingly odd honorees on the surface: Jeremy Currier and Seth Stephens have been expelled from their high school and face possible criminal prosecution. So what gives? It turns...

A Baseball Player With Promise Took a Wrong Turn
A Baseball Player With
Promise Took a Wrong Turn
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Nov 4, 2018 12:10 PM CST

A Baseball Player With Promise Took a Wrong Turn

Inside the fall of Darrell Dent Jr.

(Newser) - It's a set-up so perfect it reads like fiction: A promising minor league baseball player who was so good at stealing the back of his card touted him as having a 77% success rate at stealing bases went on to become one of the masterminds of a ring of...

After Billionaire&#39;s Murder, No Updates, Only Theories
Will We Ever Know What
Happened to These Billionaires?
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Nov 3, 2018 4:00 PM CDT

Will We Ever Know What Happened to These Billionaires?

Barry and Honey Sherman were found dead in December 2017

(Newser) - Much has been written about the December 2017 deaths of Canadian pharmaceuticals billionaire Barry Sherman, 75, and his wife, Honey, 70, who were found strangled with belts along a railing in their mansion's indoor pool. Much less has been said, at least recently, about where Toronto police are...

His Plot to Make $607,933.50: 3 Bombs, One Soccer Team

Electrician Segej Wenergold is on trial in Germany after bizarre scheme

(Newser) - In April of last year, three bombs detonated as a bus carrying the Borussia Dortmund soccer team left a hotel in Germany. As it turns out, only one player suffered minor injuries, but the high-profile attack led authorities to assume that Islamist terrorists were to blame. They could not have...

He Was Everyone&#39;s Best Friend, Until They Found the Photos
He Was Everyone's Best Friend,
Until They Found the Photos
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Oct 27, 2018 3:04 PM CDT

He Was Everyone's Best Friend, Until They Found the Photos

'Toronto Life' explores the life of an outed voyeur

(Newser) - He was, by all accounts, a great guy. Successful in the IT world of virtual reality, Pete Forde was always happy to lend a friend in need a sympathetic ear, money, even a place to stay—particularly his younger female friends. But then, as Katherine Laidlaw writes for Toronto Life ...

The Cops Finally Got Him. Then He Met the 14-Year-Old

It's the final part of the 'Cincinnati Enquirer' serial on Cody Jackson

(Newser) - Kevin Grasha and Cameron Knight of the Cincinnati Enquirer are out with the final installment of their four-part story on Cody Jackson, a young Wisconsin drop-out with no job and essentially a single skill: "luring fragile young women" he often held against their will through an extreme and manipulative...

He Kept Reeling the Girls In, Even as Police Got Closer

Part 3 of the Cincinnati Enquirer's series on Cody Jackson

(Newser) - Kevin Grasha and Cameron Knight of the Cincinnati Enquirer are out with part three of their four-part story on Cody Jackson , a young Wisconsin drop-out with no job and essentially a single skill: "luring fragile young women," in two cases impregnating teens and in others holding them against...

Their Workplaces Wouldn't Accommodate Pregnancy. The Consequences Were Tragic

'New York Times' looks at pregnancy loss related to pregnancy discrimination

(Newser) - One woman was in her second trimester when blood gushed out into her jeans after a grueling 8-hour shift. Another was near the end of the first trimester when she woke up bleeding after a day spent lifting hundreds of boxes. Another woke up on a blood-stained mattress after her...

He Was a Drop-Out With Few Skills—Except for a Dark One

The 'Cincinnati Enquirer' looks at the case of Cody Jackson in a 4-part series

(Newser) - Another newspaper is out with a serialized crime story : This time, Kevin Grasha and Cameron Knight of the Cincinnati Enquirer present the four-part story of Cody Jackson, who is introduced as, by 2014, having "an eighth-grade education, two children, no job, no permanent home, no plan, and few skills"...

Gary Hart May Have Been Set Up for His Political Fall

GOP operative Lee Atwater reportedly confessed to arranging a scandal

(Newser) - One of the biggest political sex scandals of the modern era—one that perhaps helped the elder George Bush become president—may have been a set-up. So writes James Fallows in the Atlantic regarding the fate of Colorado Sen. Gary Hart in 1987. Hart had been a leading contender for...

She Woke Up From Bike Crash And Couldn&#39;t Speak English
She Woke Up
From Bike Crash
and Couldn't
Speak English
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Oct 21, 2018 3:00 PM CDT

She Woke Up From Bike Crash and Couldn't Speak English

British woman reverts to the German she grew up with

(Newser) - Britain's Hannah Jenkins got knocked unconscious when she collided with another bicyclist, and when she woke up in the hospital, she couldn't figure out why the doctors and nurses weren't speaking English. Except, as the BBC explains, they were. Jenkins, however, couldn't understand a thing: The...

A Dead Wife, a National Park, a Different Kind of Investigation
When a Murder Happens Here,
Things Play Out Differently
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Oct 21, 2018 6:41 AM CDT

When a Murder Happens Here, Things Play Out Differently

The Investigative Services Branch is called when crimes occur in national parks

(Newser) - When Investigative Services Branch (ISB) Special Agent Kristy McGee displays her badge while investigating a crime, the reaction is generally a confused one. "They'll say something like, 'What do you guys investigate? Littering?'" she explains to Rachel Monroe. In a lengthy piece for Outside , Monroe reports...

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