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IndyStar
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Mary Claire Molloy
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Lauren Hash walked into her best friend's bedroom expecting to tease her for running late. She found blood on the wall instead. Mary Claire Molloy spent months investigating a phenomenon researchers call family annihilation, in which a killer, almost always a man, wipes out his own family. Jeffrey Mumper shot his wife and two children in their sleep, then himself. Molloy's data shows it happens every five days in America, most often with guns already in the house. A birthday card on the mantel, written nine days before the killings, said only this: I love you.
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Toronto Life
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Malcolm Johnston
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Chakib Mansouri drove a Range Rover, wore an $18,700 Rolex, and never worked a single day. His wife, Alouah, wore Prada and Dior and rarely spoke to neighbors. Malcolm Johnston traces how the Rosedale couple financed that life with iSpoof, a caller ID spoofing tool that let strangers drain bank accounts one PIN at a time. RCMP corporal Erin Power caught up to them through a stolen Range Rover police report and an undercover condo showing. The couple stole $1.8 million. Mansouri has no legal status in Canada, and he's fighting deportation from a prison cell.
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Ninety seconds into a three-minute mandatory hug with a stranger, Faith Hill wondered if dying alone might actually be fine. She'd paid $100 for a New York event called The Feels, one stop in a nationwide tour through the modern dating economy. Fewer young Americans are marrying, cohabiting, or even having sex than a generation ago, and Hill traces the causes: gutted blue-collar wages, women out-earning men, apps that promise abundance and deliver exhaustion instead. Some daters are giving up altogether. Others, like a 39-year-old who calls herself on a precipice, are still deciding whether to keep trying alone.
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The Walrus
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Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke
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In March 1954, drivers in Bellingham, Washington started finding small pits in their windshields. Within weeks the damage reached a naval air station, and theories multiplied: local vandals, sand flea eggs, cosmic rays, a hydrogen bomb test gone wrong. Lee Kuhnle and Nathan Radke revisit the Seattle panic as a case study in how ordinary wear becomes an extraordinary conspiracy once people start looking for one. University scientists eventually traced the pitting to nothing more than road grit and old glass. The panic passed. The instinct that created it, the authors argue, is only getting stronger.
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