Her father tapped the phones and revealed a family mystery

From The Cut: "A few years later, when I was away at college, I learned that my father had been tapping the phone lines. My mother had been adamant: “I am not cheating. I am not a cheater. When do I have time to cheat?” But my father’s

When a lovestruck cop tried to pull off a massive bank heist

From Texas Monthly: "FBI Special Agent Curt Hunt was working in the yard of his San Antonio home one quiet Saturday morning when the call came in: The Texas Commerce Bank off Loop 410 had been robbed. Motor bank? In his 22 years as an agent, the intense, wiry

How a hospital chain traps psychiatric patients for money

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In a cave 800 feet down, divers found a human body

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A father’s desperate search for a son who didn’t want to be found

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How a journalist became the Taliban's portrait artist

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They saw a man killed with an ax but no one was ever charged

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You can make six figures in New York by reporting idling trucks

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Plastic recycling is a hoax and the industry knows it

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Farmers used to use barbed-wire fences as a phone network

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Some people are paying to be left alone on a deserted island

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Lucille Ball said she caught Japanese spies with her teeth

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