Category Archives: Crime & Punishment

Crimes and punishments and the start of a thriller

From Harper’s Weekly Review: A woman in Germany was sentenced to life in prison for attempting to fake her own death by killing her doppelgänger, and two people in Spain were arrested for murder after police found an image on … Continue reading

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Drugs are back! And they’re traveling.

From Harper’s Weekly Review: The Colombian Navy seized a semisubmersible vessel carrying cocaine to Australia, where the drug is 6 times more valuable than it is in the United States. Qs. What is a “semisubmersible vessel”? I know, I know … Continue reading

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Maybe the fentanyl problem is, uh, dying down?

From Harper’s Weekly Review: [A] Washington State coroner who had accused his political rival of spiking his energy drink with fentanyl admitted to snorting the drug himself after removing it from a dead body.

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