Murder

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  • Quit calling defendants "black widows"!

    Biased coverage is bad for crime cases.
    By Page Rockwell September 14, 2006

  • Killing time

    As murder rates climb alongside the mercury, I'm downright nostalgic for the inner-city homicides of my youth.
    By David Matthews August 25, 2006

  • Dead certainty

    Driven by an eerie personal connection, Sebastian Junger plunged into the Boston Strangler case -- only to discover that it was a perfect storm of ambiguity.
    By Laura Miller April 19, 2006

  • A march to stop murders in Juarez

    NOW and other women's groups try to bring awareness to the senseless violence on Mexico's border.
    By Hillary Frey December 14, 2005

  • A victory for Mumia

    A court rules that Mumia Abu-Jamal can appeal his murder conviction on three separate grounds.
    By Dave Lindorff December 8, 2005

  • She's got the heart of a ballerina

    Reports on a young woman's murder tell us how two newspapers feel about topless dancers.
    By Rebecca Traister November 28, 2005

  • Killing of women continues in Ciudad Juarez

    More than 300 women have been murdered in the Mexican border town since 1993
    By Hillary Frey November 23, 2005

  • The journalist and the murderer

    A disgraced New York Times reporter learns his identity has been stolen by an all-American hunk who killed his wife and three children. The result is the most unlikely "True Story" you'll ever read.
    By Andrew O'Hehir June 15, 2005

  • "American Taboo" by Philip Weiss

    23-year-old Deb Gardner was brutally murdered in Tonga in 1976 by a fellow American volunteer who to this day walks free -- thanks to a disgraceful coverup by the Corps and the U.S.
    By Bob Shacochis July 20, 2004

  • Highways of horror

    Driven by rage at the U.S. occupation, and hoping to split the shaky allied coalition, tribesmen are taking hostages -- and now killing them.
    By Saad George Hattar April 16, 2004

  • When books kill

    Movies and video games get blamed for acts of senseless violence all the time. But some famous murderers got their ideas from literature.
    By Aidan Doyle December 15, 2003

  • Murder most foul

    Medical researchers now believe that homicide, not medical complications, is the leading cause of pregnancy-associated death.
    By Mary Papenfuss February 27, 2003

  • Day of the dead

    More than 325 women have been murdered in the free-trade boomtown of Ciudad Juarez in the past decade. Faced with government incompetence and corruption, people are rebelling.
    By Max Blumenthal December 4, 2002

  • "The Little Friend"

    Listen to Donna Tartt read an excerpt from her highly anticipated second novel, in which a 12-year-old girl tries to unravel the mysterious murder of her brother.
    October 30, 2002

  • Bringing the war home

    A rash of murders in military families highlights the weaknesses of the armed services' well-meaning domestic-abuse program.
    By Amy Benfer September 23, 2002

  • Save lives! Defy nature!

    Parents who kill their kids prove that we shouldn't have an automatic right to reproduce.
    By Jason D. Hill July 10, 2001

  • The crying game

    Sexual rights activists are hoping that transgender beauty Amanda Milan, the victim of a shocking murder, did not die in vain.
    By Nina Siegal June 20, 2001

  • Blue horse, dirty victim

    Harland Braun is Robert Blake's "very, very bright" attorney. Even Johnnie Cochran thinks he's gone too far.
    By King Kaufman May 30, 2001

  • Little devils

    Novelist Pat Barker talks about the nature of evil, children who kill and the similarities between writers and psychiatrists.
    By Maria Russo May 30, 2001

  • Blue screen of death

    In Jeff Deaver's latest thriller, "The Blue Nowhere," a killer hacks his victims' computers, invades their lives and lures them to their deaths.
    Read by Dennis Boutsikaris May 14, 2001

  • Empathy for the devil

    In "Facing the Wind," author and journalist Julie Salamon explores the strange case of a family man who murdered his family and went on to have a second family 11 years later.
    By Amy Benfer April 24, 2001

  • Bright lights, big weirdness

    Sex on dirty carpets, betrayal, decapitation, spirit possession, mega-money and a defendant they're calling the "Black Widow." Can Las Vegas' latest lurid trial be good for its image? You bet.
    By Douglas Cruickshank March 29, 2001

  • Deadly consequences

    "Zero tolerance" policies to stop youth violence may actually make schools less safe, an expert says.
    By Fiona Morgan March 9, 2001

  • An innocent Texas inmate is freed

    But if George W. Bush's office had not ignored a murder confession and DNA evidence, Christopher Ochoa might have been freed much sooner.
    By Salon Staff January 17, 2001

  • Hardest hit by the prison craze

    Oklahoma executes black woman Wanda Jean Allen at a time when black women have become the new menace to society.
    By Earl Ofari Hutchinson January 12, 2001
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