After midnight on July 6th, 2012, three teenage girls walked into the thick Appalachian woods somewhere along the Mason-Dixon county line. Hours later, under the glow of a nearly full moon, only two walked out. The very last time Dave and Mary Neese saw their only child Skylar was in a grainy black-and-white video. In it, she's sneaking out of her ground-floor bedroom in the middle of the night, her purse over her shoulder, her brown hair swinging as she hurries across the small parking lot...

In the early morning hours of December 14th, 2010, Anthony “Tony” Carleo will walk into the Bellagio Hotel and Casino on the Las Vegas Strip adorned in a full motorcycle jumpsuit, gloves and helmet and pull a pistol, robbing a high stakes craps table of 1.5 million dollars in casino chips. This is the wild, “only in Vegas” true story of the guy who robbed the house, returned to the house and began living in it, like a king, for free.

Men's Journal ditches a deep dive into the Air Force Academy's flimsy rape case against Lt. Douglas Meester.

An ambitious reporter goes door to door with Mormon elders, gets negged by New York Magazine.

A Vanity Fair takedown of a prominent fashion figure…gets taken down.

A double kill! Travel & Leisure and Playboy sink stories on a secretive cruiseliner for the megarich.

Rolling Stone scraps an essay about rock legend Phil Spector's death.

In over 30 years at Vogue, Anna Wintour has killed many stories. This is not one of them.

ELLE rejects Justine's profile on "porn moms," women who love gay porn stars.

Glamour punts a "problematic" 1950s love story.

The Aspen Times buries reporting on a mysterious, Soviet-born billionaire.

A Pulitzer prize-winning reporter accuses the Los Angeles Times of delaying his exposé on a dangerous doctor.

The brief, wondrous life of George Magazine—and the Gore Vidal essay deemed too risqué by John F. Kennedy Jr.  Featuring Hugo Lindgren and RoseMarie Terenzio.

A nuanced piece about the estranged daughter of one of the deadliest men in history gets offed by Vanity Fair—twice.  Featuring Nicholas Thompson.

Vice ditches an oral history about the famously lit McCarren Park pool parties in Brooklyn.  Featuring Eleanor Cummins and Patrick Sauer.

New York assigns a piece meant to vindicate convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein?! Featuring the fact checker who killed the story, Alex Yablon.

A journalist unlocks a secret in New York’s Chinatown; This American Life drops the hammer.  Featuring Aaron Reiss and Stephanie Foo.

The original tale of a trusting patient and his manipulative psychiatrist (now starring Paul Rudd and Will Ferrell) gets shivved by the New York Times.  Featuring Joe Nocera and Hugo Lindgren.

A celebrity gossip teases an exposé on embattled actor Armie Hammer. But the piece never runs, and the rumor mill kicks into overdrive.  Featuring Anne Helen Petersen and Allie Jones. 

A novice journalist tags along to meet John Wayne Gacy one week before his execution for Details.  Featuring Nancy Rommelmann.

GQ tries to bury a provocative piece about Vladmir Putin's rise to power.  Featuring Scott Anderson and Gabriel Snyder.

Esquire fumbles a bombshell exposé on director Bryan Singer. Featuring Maximillian Potter, Alex French, and Bruce Handy.

Each episode of KILLED tells the true tale behind a magazine story once silenced or submerged by the media. Justine Harman interviews some of the biggest names in journalism and learns about the drama and deception that surround major publications' final decisions on whether or not to publish a writer's reporting.