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# Longreads

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Sitdown Sunday: Life and death on an overcrowded Everest
Sitdown Sunday: How half a tonne of cocaine transformed an island
Sitdown Sunday: The fake heiress who fooled everyone - and got sent to jail
Sitdown Sunday: My childhood growing up in a cult
Sitdown Sunday: 'If you want to kill someone, we're your guys'
Sitdown Sunday: How to change your life by doing... nothing
Sitdown Sunday: Are sex scenes in film dying a death?
Sitdown Sunday: The long and fascinating career of the controversial Rupert Murdoch
Sitdown Sunday: The mysterious disappearance of the famed actress Fan Bingbing
Sitdown Sunday: What happened to missing Claudia Lawrence?
Sitdown Sunday: The coffin business is booming in Central America because of gang violence
Sitdown Sunday: The psychiatrist who believed people could predict the future
Sitdown Sunday: A tale of the disappeared children of Israel
Sitdown Sunday: The secret history of women in coding
Sitdown Sunday: Is the writer Dan Mallory really who he says he is?
Sitdown Sunday: 'I think there's something in these planters' - how a series of deaths were discovered in Canada
Sitdown Sunday: 'I was the victim of a conspiracy theory'
Sitdown Sunday: The day we found out our parents were Russian spies
Sitdown Sunday: Who really does the housework at home?
Sitdown Sunday: The best crime longreads of 2018
Sitdown Sunday: When a medic was killed in Gaza, was it an accident?
Sitdown Sunday: The journalist who messed with the wrong small town
Sitdown Sunday: Why do people fall for notorious jailed murderers?
Sitdown Sunday: Remembering the late, great, Anthony Bourdain
Sitdown Sunday: The business that wants to change how you, er, poo
Sitdown Sunday: 'Do you know what lies within the walls of 657 Boulevard?'
Sitdown Sunday: The first man to swim around Great Britain on how his tongue came off in strips
Sitdown Sunday: Why did people join David Koresh's doomed Waco cult?
Sitdown Sunday: He was a great landlord - until they found out he was spying on their every move
Sitdown Sunday: A tragedy that shed light on an underground baby industry
Sitdown Sunday: The truth about polyamory
Sitdown Sunday: Who is Brett Kavanaugh?
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Sitdown Sunday: Was his daughter's death a tragic accident - or murder?
Sitdown Sunday: The perfect family - until a tragedy revealed their hidden secrets
Sitdown Sunday: The horrific abuse at a Catholic orphanage
Sitdown Sunday: Dr Death - 'the madman with a scalpel'
Sitdown Sunday: The poisoning of a Russian double agent
Sitdown Sunday: How did an ordinary Texan end up being the State's most prolific bank robber?
Sitdown Sunday: The deadly hunt for an art mogul's buried treasure