Best New Yorker Annals of Crime

Jeremy Bamber remains in prison in England for the murders, at Whitehouse Farm, of his family: his parents, Nevill and June; his sister, Sheila; and her sons, Daniel and Nicholas. Despite newly discovered evidence, his appeals for another trial have been rejected. Heidi Blake reports.

Nathan Heller explores a decades-old case: Two young lovers were convicted of a brutal slaying. Years later, why has the case become a cause?

After John Worley, a Massachusetts psychotherapist, received the first e-mail, he replied, “I can help and I am interested.”

After fifteen years and twenty-seven heists, Ray Bowman and Billy Kirkpatrick, who were among the most accomplished bank robbers in United States history, finally tripped up, Alex Kotlowitz reports.

Philip Gourevitch on Andy Rosenzweig, a New York City cop who decided to investigate a long-ago double murder.

ANNALS OF CRIME about the murder of Sophie du Plantier, in West Cork, Ireland, and Ian Bailey, an immigrant worker and part-time writer, from England who …

Lucinda Franks on Katherine Ann Power, the antiwar radical who left her life and family in Oregon to serve time for her role in an action that killed a Boston cop in 1970.

Joyce Johnson on Dr. Park Dietz, the forensic psychologist who has testified in notorious homicide cases, including the prosecution of John Hinckley, Jr., Betty Broderick, Jeffrey Dahmer, Joel Rifkin, and Ted Kaczynski, known as the Unabomber.

Part 4 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

From 1965: Part 3 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

Part 2 of Truman Capote’s legendary report about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

Part 1 of Truman Capote’s story about a murdered family in Holcomb, Kansas.

A. J. Liebling’s 1955 recount of the mysterious torso found floating in the East River, in 1897, and the race among the decade’s star reporters to crack the case.

E. J. Kahn’s 1953 piece about a cheating husband who murders his wife—and everyone else aboard her plane—with a bomb.

A 1953 story by St. Clair McKelway about two strangers drawn into an enraged ex-husband’s terrifying plot.

Jerome Roberts confessed to killing his wife. The truth was different. St. Clair McKelway explores the case.

ANNALS OF CRIME about counterfeiters. The most sought-after counterfeiter there has ever been in this country was one called OldEight Eighty by the Secret …

ANNALS OF CRIME about Edward Mueller, or Old Eight-Eighty, tells about other counterfeiters. Edward John Wellman, an Estonian, was a counterfeiter of …

ANNALS OF CRIME about counterfeit money and counterfeiters There was a shortage of both genuine and counterfeit money in early Colonial times, whereas …

Janet Flanner on how the Fuhrer, aided by a group of art-pillaging Nazis, became the biggest, fastest collector of art in modern times.

Janet Flanner on Marthe Hanau, the “spicy Paris personality” whose financial paper Gazette du Franc swindled millions of xenophobic investors in postwar France.

ANNALS OF CRIME about the holdup of a U. S. Trucking Corporation armored car in Brooklyn. Stewart Wallace vas the veteran of the group. He was 51, and had …

ANNALS OF CRIME about the holdup of a U. S. Trucking Corporation armored car in Brooklyn. Stewart Wallace vas the veteran of the group. He was 51, and had …

Janet Flanner’s 1938 piece on Eugen Weidmann, the kidnapper and murderer who later became the last person to be publicly executed in France.