8th December 2011
Three at Last!
“They are notorious for, and can never escape, a crime they didn’t commit. Eighteen years ago, three teenagers in Arkansas were falsely accused of the murders of three young boys. It was an astounding abuse of justice, and it was all caught on film, in a series of HBO documentaries that gained a cult following and led celebrities like Johnny Depp and Eddie Vedder to take up the cause. Suddenly released this summer, the West Memphis Three are now free to pick up their lives—if they can even find them.
4th November 2011
His Own Private Idaho
“Ten years ago, a man moved to Marsing, Idaho. He had a strange accent and didn’t know much about cattle. The folks in Marsing were a little skeptical at first, but when he built a house and started a family, he earned his neighbors’ acceptance. Last February, while buying hay, he was cornered by federal agents and arrested for violent crimes tied to the Boston Mob. And the town wondered: Who the hell is Jay Shaw?
13th October 2010
Way Down in the Hole
“For more than two months, thirty-three men have been stuck deep underground, trapped in the stifling confines of a Chilean copper mine. Now, on the eve of their rescue, Sean Flynn reports on the circus at Camp Hope—mistresses! mysteries! miracles! cannibals!—and unearths the deeper stories of men who would happily trade their fates for a few dark months down below
16th June 2010
Boom
“Lost in the catastrophic aftermath of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill is the gripping tale of the rig workers and the Coast Guard crewmen who rescued them.
24th May 2010
The Longest Night
“One Easter Sunday, the Alaska Ranger—a fishing boat out of Dutch Harbor—went down in the Bering Sea, 6,000 feet deep and thirty-two degrees cold. Forty-seven people were on board, and nearly half of them would spend hours floating alone in the darkness, in water so frigid it can kill a man in minutes. Forty-two of them would be rescued. Here’s how.
