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Matthew Cox always wanted to make his father proud, but he didn’t think it would land him on the top of the Secret Service’s most wanted list. His scam was real estate
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Photographed by Brian Adams | Licensed to Alpha Media Group 2013 Pictured: Common Grounds Espresso Stand in Anchorage, Alaska “He was the same dirty rat he’d always been. He got what he
On November 25th, the most notorious rape case in recent memory took yet another shocking twist. In Steubenville, Ohio, where a 16-year-old girl was raped by two high school football players in
On a recent frigid night near Reykjavik, Iceland, Sigurdur “Siggi” Thordarson slips into a bubbling geothermal pool at a suburban swim club. The cherubic, blond 21-year-old, who has been called everything in
On October 1st, 2013, inside the science-fiction section of the Glen Park library in San Francisco, one of the Internet’s most-wanted men sat typing quietly on his laptop. He’d allegedly assumed multiple
Last April, Dong Nguyen, a quiet 28-year-old who lived with his parents in Hanoi, Vietnam, and had a day job programming location devices for taxis, spent a holiday weekend making a mobile
There’s a lot Jessi Smiles can do in a six-second video. Pound Pringles. Pretend she peed her pants. Twerk on a geek at a video-game store. She can also put every guy
“Want a bump?” It’s not that surprising when Andrew “weev” Auernheimer offers me coke shortly after we first meet. As one of the Net’s most notorious trolls, the scruffily elfin 28-year-old is
In the mid-nineteen-seventies, when Christopher Doyon was a child in rural Maine, he spent hours chatting with strangers on CB radio. His handle was Big Red, for his hair. Transmitters lined the
