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Aum Shinrikyo

The court record establishes the crime. The harder file is the years of escalation, the warnings of different quality, and what Japan did next.

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The Dalles, 1984

In 1984, an Oregon town faced a baffling two-wave Salmonella outbreak. Epidemiologists found the exposure, but the people behind it emerged only after a separate…

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Waco

Two deadly dates and a record that answers some questions far more clearly than others. This file separates the first shots, the fire, the tactical…

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Jonestown

Peoples Temple began as an integrated church that fed the poor. Twenty-four years later, 918 people were dead in Guyana. The records show how the…

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