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See Vanity Fair's excellent long-form article "The Body in Room 348" for a real life example! https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2013/05/true-crime-elegan...

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Calling that article excellent is almost understatement. One of the most fascinating true crime articles I've read. Thanks for reminding me of it.

Excellent read indeed. Do you know any more that wood be at least in the same league?

Don't know where to find it, but I read another such mystery involving the same real life detective, that involved a girl who when into a motel, and never came out. I'm sure someone will know what I'm referring to.

OK, found it. And Ken Brennan is the stuff legends are made of. https://www.vanityfair.com/culture/2010/12/vanishing-blonde-...

Also, I read "In Cold Blood" in its original serial format in the New Yorker, and it was quite good (and long -- for a magazine).

Without reading mode, that site is unusable. All those animated ads and banners are the blink tag all over again.

> Without reading mode

You answered yourself. Read View is great even with well-behaved sites, use it generously.

Edit: I retract my comment, Reader View shows about the last third of the article, and I had already blocked JavaScript there in a previous interaction. Vanity Fair sucks.

Or is it reader view the one that sucks?

It's the first case I've seen where Reader View shows incomplete content, and I use it almost daily because it makes long reads very comfortable. It might be that Reader View sucks, but I'm more inclined to blame Vanity Fair in this case.

Here is an alternate version of the story. https://icantbelieveitsnonfiction.com/2020/10/20/greg-flenik...

I find Ctrl-A, Ctrl-C, followed by a visit to my favorite text editor often works like a champ -- even when scrolling is disabled and only a paragraph or two is visible.

this was a great read. I just had to keep reading, almost felt like following the people solving the mystery.

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