Author: Colin McCracken

ILLUSTRATIONS BY ALEX GAMSU JENKINS For every undercover government agent, there comes a time when it’s clear that the jig is up. For Pat Salamone that moment came in 1978, when gangsters drove him out to the Florida Everglades, put a gun to his head and made him start digging his own grave. Salamone had...

Step inside the Chicago Murder Castle and meet the good doctor, a most dangerously charming man, a twisted psychopath who might well be america’s first serial killer: Dr. H.H. Holmes. Chicago grew into a mecca of industry and power in the decades following the Great Fire of 1871. It became a bustling city offering a...

“Just don’t be an asshole” Since crashing onto the music scene with Dead Kennedys, Jello Biafra has made punk and hardcore music smarter, run for public office and was even tried for obscenity. But that’s just scratching the surface. Biafra has lived a roller coaster of a life, one that has seen him become a...