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Homicide Watch is a community-driven reporting project covering every murder in the District of Columbia. Using original reporting, court documents, social media, and the help of victims’ and suspects’ friends, family, neighbors and others, we cover every homicide from crime to conviction."
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posted by BobbyVan
on Mar 13, 2012 -
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A year ago this August, 72 migrant workers -- 58 men and 14 women -- 'were on their way to the US border when they were
murdered by a drug gang at a ranch in northern Mexico, in circumstances that remain unexplained. Since then, a group of Mexican journalists and writers have created' a "Day of the Dead-style Virtual Altar" Spanish-language website,
72migrantes.com, to commemorate each of the victims, some of whom have never been identified. The New York Review of Books has
English translations of five of their profiles. [more inside]
posted by zarq
on Sep 7, 2011 -
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Thirteen-year-old
Milly Dowler was kidnapped and murdered on her way home from school in 2002. During the six-month hunt before her body was found, her parents gave exclusive interviews to the
News of the World, saying they believed she would be found alive.
That hope was based partly on the fact that her voicemails were still being listened to and deleted. Today, it was revealed that the deleting was
being done by the News of the World.
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posted by bonaldi
on Jul 4, 2011 -
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What do
Cliff Edwards (1928),
Lloyd Price (circa 1959),
The Rulers (1967),
R.L. Burnside (late 1980s/ early 1990s),
Grateful Dead (live in 1993), and
Nick Cave (live in 1996) have in common? If nothing else, they all
sang some variation of the crime of Lee Shelton, also known as
Stack O'Lee, Stagolee, Stack-a-Lee , Stackerlee, Stagger Lee and other names, with
as many variations in the details of that fateful night. Join MeFite
Paul Slade with
his journalistic narrations of
murder ballads, tales of
Secret London (
previously), and
other works of
long-form journalism (which
may or may not be ideal for the web,
previously). [via
mefi projects; more clips and bits inside]
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posted by filthy light thief
on Sep 22, 2009 -
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What happens when a US President declares war on a concept? In 1964, Canadian photojournalist Hugh O'Connor traveled to eastern Kentucky to document the battlefields of Lyndon Johnson's
war on poverty and was shot for trespassing.
The incident is the subject of a wonderful documentary,
Stranger with a Camera by filmmaker
Elizabeth Barrett, produced by
Appalshop, a non-profit organization in Whitesburg, Kentucky, that works with local artists to promote self-representation in media and the expediency of culture to counteract a stagnating local economy.
Makes you think twice about
nostalgic representations of poor Appalachian coal miners plucking their banjo strings in the hollers, doesn't it?
posted by billtron
on Apr 15, 2008 -
14 comments
