Pursuit Magazine

A benefit from Gary Murphy story involvement is seeing the person his daughter has become. He fought for custody of her. She lost mom to an OD and dad to murder, when she was 6. She’s in her 30’s; she has chosen a positive life. That’s impressive. Her grandma had him murdered.

"From 1979 to the mid-1980s, they lived like kings across the Caribbean, buying property and planes and partying nightly with Jimmy Buffett and other patron saints of the counterculture." —@jscros for @rollingstone rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…

Fun piece on a groundbreaking female CIA agent whose work on disguises helped shape the art of spycraft (Big thanks to Jen Mackovjak at 221B for letting us republish) pursuitmag.com/unsung-heroes-…

Taking an OSINT class tomorrow from a practical teacher. In the real world, I can’t charge clients 3 -4 hours cause I fiddled around and didn’t find anything. My searches involve elements of it, low hanging fruit. Everyone lives life online to degrees.

Spies gonna spy washingtonpost.com/world/2026/03/…

pursuitmag.com/how-i-won-an-e… Continued to report. Efforts have won a James Madison Freedom of Information Award from local SPJ. Everything worth anything is a battle. More than just City of SF records in this case.

Great reporting from @sarahrainsford who spoke to someone involved in the plot to send exploding parcels across Europe. He said he never knew he was handling explosives and, like many others, suggests he never knew he was working for Russian intelligence. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Searching online news can fill in the gaps of a background investigation. A little media literacy can help you sort good information from bad. pursuitmag.com/the-digital-de…

Tips from a reporter-turned-private investigator to make your public records requests more likely to succeed: pursuitmag.com/public-records…

For executors, private investigators, and anyone who might have money out there that they’ve completely forgotten about — or never knew existed — this is a tale for you. pursuitmag.com/fairy-tales-vs…

My latest, a collaboration between @propublica + @NYTmag, is on the cover of today's New York Times Magazine. Gift link, which leads you to the excellent audio version of the story by @justjuliawhelan: nytimes.com/2026/02/22/mag…

A cartoon by @richnooorth. #NewYorkerCartoons See more cartoons from this week’s issue at the link in our bio.

New Hampshire moves a step closer to mandating the electronic recording of interrogations. Let's hope that this step leads to a leap to join the 30 other states that require full recording of interrogations. facebook.com/manchesterinfo…

BREAKING: #CarmenMejia just walked free after 22 years of wrongful conviction in Texas. While she was exonerated on Monday, she was not immediately released due to an immigration hold. ICE announced that in light of the exoneration they would lift the detainer so that she could be released from local custody. "I never lost faith and hope — I never lost it in 22 years," she said. Read more: shorturl.at/xHo2p

Psyched to make my debut in the New Yorker with this profile of the bloody life and (grim) legacy of El Mencho "He was ruthless taking over business” Chicago cocaine king Margarito Flores says. His corrido goes: “They say I'm very violent, It’s true, why should I lie about it?”

Abigael Gonzalez Valencia, alias El Cuini, was the financial brain of the Jalisco New Generation Cartel and a genius money launderer. If he makes a deal with US prosecutors the big question is what is the number of $$$ he will give the US government and what it gives in return.

It’s an absolute honour to be profiled in The Guardian today, and I’m so grateful that this piece puts the Epstein victims front and centre, where they belong. theguardian.com/us-news/2026/m…

Hoy, Carmen Mejia fue exonerada después de que el juez P. David Wahlberg, del Tribunal de Distrito del Condado de Travis, la declaró inocente de la muerte de un bebé de 10 meses bajo su cuidado quien —según afirma ahora el estado— murió en un trágico accidente. Lee su historia aquí:innocenceproject.org/news/carmen-me…

For executors, private investigators, and anyone who might have money out there that they’ve completely forgotten about — or never knew existed — this is a tale for you. pursuitmag.com/fairy-tales-vs…

Do not skip this story. For that matter, don’t skip ANY stories by Pam Colloff, ever.