• Killer: Shepard didn't make advances

    A just-unsealed confession demolishes the "gay panic" defense. Too bad the media wasn't around to hear it.
    By Dave Cullen November 6, 1999

  • "It's happened again"

    When gun-control advocates use mass shootings to push for a handgun ban, critics accuse them of exploiting tragedy. But there's a difference between exploiting a tragedy and learning from it.
    By Dan Savage November 4, 1999

  • Old Testament prophets were pimps, says novelist

    Never underestimate the effectiveness of blasphemy as a marketing strategy. Plus: Good news! You can join the Mile High Club with a stranger and stay married.
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 23, 1999

  • Lawsuits, flamingos and the spin doctor bombs

    No "cheesy, sleazy, one-night stand behavior" for Sharon Stone; PR from the Unabomber: I may be a killer, but I'm no kook!
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 16, 1999

  • Hangover at the Mile High Club

    Post boom-boom gloom. The heartbreak of taco theft -- what's next, kidnapping chimichangas? Plus: A helicopter you can park in your nostril.
    By Douglas Cruickshank October 9, 1999

  • To spy is human, to plagiarize divine

    Cicciolina, Fembot fer real; John Mackay: I have not yet begun to write! Plus: Mark Twain, eyewitness to a hanging. Gulp.
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 30, 1999

  • Elmore Leonard

    The world's coolest crime writer has an uncanny ear for wry dialogue and a deep belief in lives with second acts.
    By Sean Elder September 28, 1999

  • Men in dresses behaving badly

    "The RuPaul of Robbers" busted in Baton Rouge; scandal! Boozed-up Amish renegade flips buggy while blotto. Plus: Rupert Pupkin lives!
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 23, 1999

  • The little old lady from the KGB

    Grannies will be spies and spies will be grannies. It's a mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world except for Hola! H-0-L-A, Hola!
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 16, 1999

  • The real Bush drug scandal

    Texas Gov. George W. Bush has presided over a crackdown on first-time drug offenders from poor neighborhoods like Houston's Third Ward Bottoms.
    By Debra Dickerson September 14, 1999

  • Corporate dark stars: The top 100

    Bad companies: Payin' the price for not bein' nice. Plus: The sad tale of Sotheby's fake furniture scam and the porno prince who ate his own fortune.
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 9, 1999

  • The poetry of rural roguery

    The extra-urban misadventures of "very large for his age" and his ilk.
    By Douglas Cruickshank September 2, 1999

  • Blow me down! It's the Rime of the Ancient Unabomber

    Move over, James Cameron -- Ted Kaczynski has a boat story to tell! Plus: What's that moose doing in my pool? The backstroke!
    By Douglas Cruickshank August 26, 1999

  • Class will tell

    The Bush cocaine controversy should encourage an overdue debate on why drug abuse among the rich is a "disease" while among the poor it is a "crime."
    By Joe Conason August 24, 1999

  • Louder than words

    George W. Bush, who refuses to answer questions about his own drug use, slashed drug rehabilitation programs for inmates while ushering in tougher sentencing laws.
    By Robert Bryce August 24, 1999

  • Tony: Portrait of a cereal killer

    When hot tubs are outlawed; what if God was a doper? Son of Sam killer not lookin' back; and the importance of knowing where your wallet is at all times.
    By Douglas Cruickshank August 19, 1999

  • Last roundup at the Mustang Ranch

    Bordellos R Us: In the Nevada desert, a new management style is coming to the world's oldest profession.
    By Douglas Cruickshank August 12, 1999

  • Guns and money

    The owner of the firm that made an assault rifle found in the van of accused killer Buford Furrow was, until recently, a key George W. Bush fund-raiser.
    By Jake Tapper August 11, 1999

  • Gov. Death

    George W. Bush has presided over an execution in Texas almost every two weeks since his election. Why isn't that a campaign issue?
    By Christopher Hitchens August 7, 1999

  • NataS er'uoy siht daer nac uoy fI

    "Mexican Madonna" on the run from sex charges; Did singer include secret satanic messages on her records? And how do you play a CD backward?
    By Douglas Cruickshank August 5, 1999

  • Atlanta's burning

    The city too busy to hate has found plenty of time for violence lately, and nobody knows why.
    By Mike Alvear August 3, 1999

  • Is the Mafia going the way of the great auk?

    Pas de deux in dreamland with a working-class hero. Extinction alert: Goodfellas now an endangered species.
    By Douglas Cruickshank July 29, 1999

  • The Kevlar dictator

    Bullets can't touch him. He's impervious to poison. And bombs -- Ha! He laughs at your bombs!
    By Douglas Cruickshank July 22, 1999

  • Shopping at high speed while black

    Armed with an AmEx card designed to function silently, a scalawag aliased Raydog pulls a fast one.
    By Douglas Cruickshank July 15, 1999

  • The muddle people

    Hey, knuckleheads! Ya wanta live in our kountry, learn to speak our langkwage; Hitler's paintings: No wonder he went into the dictator business. Plus: Woman hurtles off cliff, hangs onto cell phone, rescuer gripes about audio quality.
    By Douglas Cruickshank July 8, 1999
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