Archive
For a while I wrote a true crime newsletter. Different subject, same interest in why people do what they do. Those issues are below.
What I'm doing now is helping people close the decision they've been going back and forth on.
- True Story
The boy who came back
A family in San Antonio got their missing son back after three years. It took five months, and a stranger looking at the one thing nobody thought to check.
- Human Nature
Everybody's just borrowing
A criminologist went looking for thieves and couldn't find any. What he found instead is running in your head right now.
- Money
The wine tastes better because it costs more
Studies keep proving the same embarrassing thing: we can't tell what's good. We can only tell what's expensive.
- True Story
Three words hidden in a pizza order
A woman trapped in her own house had one second to ask for help without the man with the knife seeing it. Here is what she typed.
- Human Nature
The most expensive second of your life
You think criminals are a separate species. The distance between them and you is about one second wide, and it isn't made of character.