On July 3, 1972, a group of about two dozen free-spirited hippies from Clearwater, Florida, driving to a Rolling Stones concert in Charlotte, N.C., camped for the night in the mountains of western
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In January 1958, Charles Starkweather, accompanied by his 14-year-old girlfriend, Caril Ann Fugate, embarked on a killing spree in Nebraska, leaving ten people dead in their wake.
David Grann, New Yorker staff writer and bestselling author of The Lost City of Z and The Devil and Sherlock Holmes, offers what amounts to three page-turning narratives
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VeteranreporterStephen Bates, who once covered both the English royals and religion for the Guardian, has since leaving the newspaper carved out an engaging and enterta
