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Alex Mar

Alex Mar is a writer and documentary film-maker based in New York. She is the author of Witches of America and Seventy Times Seven A True Story of Murder and Mercy

December 2023

  • Paula Cooper police photo

    The Audio Long Read
    A violent murder, a child on death row – podcast

    Paula Cooper was 15 when she murdered 77-year-old Ruth Pelke in her Indiana home, and was sentenced to death. But a campaign for her life came from an unexpected quarter. By Alex Mar

November 2023

  • Paula Cooper in a police mugshot from 1985.

    The long read
    A violent murder, a child on death row

    The long read: Paula Cooper was 15 when she murdered 77-year-old Ruth Pelke in her Indiana home, and was sentenced to death. But a campaign for her life came from an unexpected quarter

December 2017

  • illustration for long read about slender man murder case in wisconsin

    The long read
    Into the woods: how online urban legend Slender Man inspired children to kill

    The long read: When two 12-year-old girls in Wisconsin invited their classmate for a game of hide-and-seek in the forest, they planned to murder her. They later claimed they were forced to act by the mythical Slender Man

October 2016

  • witch

    Witches of America: how I became immersed in a growing movement

    A book and film that were first intended as a snapshot of the pagan religious movement today became, equally, a memoir of my own spiritual seeking
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