Nothing but the Truth

My name is Cornelius Dupree, and I am a sex offender. I paced the narrow aisle between the bunks in my cell, going over the words in my mind, trying to force them to my lips.

Those were the …

Slate reprises the Kellers, satanic panic, and NCRJ’s role in stopping it.

“It sounds laughable,” says Debbie Nathan, an investigative reporter who co-wrote Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt about the panic and is now a director for the National Center for Reason and Justice, …

The Mystery of the San Antonio Four

TAMIR KALIFA

“Otto found an organization called the National Center for Reason and Justice, which was created in the wake of the 1980s-era satanic ritual abuse scandals to advocate for people wrongfully accused of harming children. His packet of information …

A murderer targets registered sex offenders

Sex offender registries do not increase public safety, especially when you include the part of the public whose names and addresses appear on the registry.

Following the murder of one registered offender and the severe maiming of another, both in …

“Did Your Father Touch You?”

Photo: Christopher Anderson/Magnum Photos/New York Magazine

When she was 8 years old, Chaneya Kelly lived in a pale-yellow house on Washington Street in Newburgh, New York. She was the oldest of five kids, with two brothers and two sisters, ages …

Petition for Review Granted

Varn Chandola of Seattle is enmeshed in a domestic dispute with his ex-wife. His case came to our attention because the trial court’s ruling dividing the spoils and the time each parent can spend with their child not only did …