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Murder

Click Here to Kill

The dark world of online murder markets

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Click Here to Kill

Hiring a hitman online isn’t just speculative fiction

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A Template for Hate

Polarized politics and mainstream intolerance

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Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Predicting murder on Chicago’s South Side

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Last Request

From emails exchanged by employees of the U.S. State Department, an anonymous Iraqi man known here by the pseudonym Omar, and Omar’s brother. In 2011, Omar, who had worked as…

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Blood Spore: The Pollock Murder Cassette

A 1981 recording of a police officer and a burglar discussing the robbery and murder of a pioneering mycologist

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Blood Spore

Of murder and mushrooms

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Spywear

From a November 19, 2012, blog post by John McAfee, the founder of the antivirus-software company McAfee, who in mid-November came under suspicion by Belizean police of murdering his neighbor…

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Calderón’s war

The gruesome legacy of Mexico's antidrug campaign

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