"What I found most unusual and possibly scary was the way she was able to so fully inhabit, a year later, the mind-set she'd had the week of the crime." New York has a long, well-reported piece on Kelli Stapleton, the woman who tried to kill herself and her autistic daughter, in this week's issue.

True crime aficionados should read Evan Hughes' The Trials of White Boy Rick at The Atavist. It's about a drug dealer who claimed that all through his criminal career he'd actually been working for the FBI. Hughes spent a year reporting the nutty story. You can buy it for a mere $3.99 here.