The bible is often treated as an answer book, yet its pages are thick with unanswerable questions: What does Jesus write in the sand? What is the name of the concubine in Judges 19—and, while we’re at ...

Dr Kay Scarpetta, chief medical examiner of the Commonwealth of Virginia, made her fictional debut in Patricia Cornwell’s first crime novel, Postmortem, published in 1990. Cornwell had been both a ...

The New York Times writer M. Gessen always disliked their younger cousin Allen. But then he did something so bad, even M. was surprised – and they realized they didn’t know Allen at all. See more of ...

Two shocking discoveries found 15 years apart in the New Hampshire woods would go unsolved until a killer with changing identities took his murderous ways west. On November 10, 1985, police in ...

The man accused in Long Island’s infamous Gilgo Beach serial killings intends to plead guilty in the case next month, according to two people familiar with his decision. Rex Heuermann, a former ...

For some backstory, see this DoJ press release ("Murder For Hire Convict Sentenced To Ten Years In Prison" / "Allen Gessen Was Convicted Of Soliciting an Undercover Agent to Murder the Estranged ...

The columnist M. Gessen sits down with the writer Harriet Clark to talk through the complexity of maintaining relationships with family members who have done unthinkable things. By M. Gessen and ...

Carolyn Gusoff has covered some of the most high profile news stories in the New York City area and is best known as a trusted, tenacious, consistent and caring voice of Long Island's concerns.

Discover What’s Streaming On: Netflix‘s new Scandi noir series Jo Nesbø’s Detective Hole lovingly adapts author and showrunner Jo Nesbø‘s fifth Harry Hole book, The Devil’s Star. In that novel, ...

Rex Heuermann, the man charged with seven of the Gilgo Beach murders that gripped Long Island, New York, is expected to plead guilty next month, according to a source. Subscribe to read this story ...

Rex Heuermann, the alleged serial killer behind the infamous Gilgo Beach murders, is expected to enter a guilty plea in the murders during a court appearance next month, closing another chapter in the ...

ALLENTOWN, Pa. - One of the Lehigh Valley's most notorious killers has eluded the execution chamber again. Last month, Pennsylvania Department of Corrections Secretary Laurel Harry signed a notice of ...