Articles & Podcasts
ABC Audio Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler. Hosted by Dick Lehr
Thirteen victims. An inconclusive investigation. Sixty years later, the story of the Boston Strangler still has a hold on the public imagination. “Truth and Lies: The Boston Strangler” retraces the tragic fate of the victims and explores why a killer’s confession never closed this decades-old case. Listen to the episodes
Denied a state job because she was Black, she took a stand. And became a hero.
“All this turmoil will probably do me no good,” Jane Bosfield said amid her 1915 fight for workplace equality, “but it will make the way easier for other girls of my race.”
ABC Audio Truth and Lies: The Informant. Hosted by Dick Lehr
In 2016, a group of men in rural Kansas started meeting in secret. They spent months forming a militia group and plotting what would’ve been one of the worst domestic terror attacks in U.S. history — if it hadn’t been stopped. “Truth and Lies: The Informant” tells the remarkable story of an ordinary man who…
The Rise of the Strangler
Deep in an archive kept secret for decades, the author found a stunning trove: social workers’ notes gathered over many years on the early life of Albert DeSalvo, the admitted killer of 11 women and one of Boston’s few truly iconic criminals.
As a young reporter, I went undercover to expose the Ku Klux Klan
Spike Lee’s powerful new film, “BlacKkKlansman,” tells the true story of Ron Stallworth, an African-American police officer who infiltrates a local branch of the Ku Klux Klan in 1979. That same year, I also signed up to join the Klan. And at a secret meeting I even met the Grand Wizard himself, David Duke, the…
The Racist Legacy of Woodrow Wilson
Students at Princeton University are protesting the ways it honors the former president, who once threw a civil-rights leader out of the White House.