Over the past twenty years, The Walrus has been a steady bellwether of must-read writing. For our 20th anniversary, we’ve collected works that still surprise us, impress us, move us.
Here are some of the best pieces of true crime that we’ve published.
Cottage Country Murder
BY ZANDER SHERMAN
Police have dragged the lake. They’ve dug up property. They’ve brought in dogs. But after twenty years, they still can’t find the bodies of the four missing seniors in Muskoka
What Happened the Night Tamra Keepness Disappeared from Her Regina Home?
BY JANA G. PRUDEN
The years since her disappearance have exposed the epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women in Canada
The Rise and Fall of Toronto’s Classiest Con Man
BY MICHAEL LISTA
James Regan swindled his way through the city’s monied classes. The problem was, he seemed to believe his own lies
Yoga’s Culture of Sexual Abuse: Nine Women Tell Their Stories
BY MATTHEW REMSKI
Disturbing accounts of misconduct against the founder of one of North America’s most popular forms of yoga
How Police Cracked Canada’s Largest Child Pornography Ring
BY ROBERT KOLKER
Inside the year-long effort to take down a criminal organization hiding in plain sight
How Canada’s Health Care System Helped Create a Killer
BY MARTIN PATRIQUIN
Johnathan Townsend’s family knew he was a danger. Nobody listened
Masked Avenger
BY ANDREW MITROVICA
Meet “John Holloway,” former clown, trucker, drug addict, high-paid crime fighter, serious adrenalin junkie, and—for now—retired undercover agent
Life on Nut Island
BY STEPHEN WILLIAMS
With four strokes of a pen, Ontario police officer Ron Heinemann set in motion the disbandment of an elite crime-fighting unit
