Aaron Esposito

Jan 19, 2025 | nytimes.com | Oliver Whang |Eric Martin |Jack D’Isidoro |Krish Seenivasan |John Woo |Aaron Esposito | +2 more

Ingrid Jackson had never lived in a trailer before, or a small town. She was born in Louisville, Ky., the daughter of a man with schizophrenia who, in 1983, decapitated a 76-year-old woman. Jackson was 1 at the time. In 2010, at 27, she was in a car accident and was prescribed pain pills. Not long after that, she began using heroin. Over the next decade she went through nine rounds of addiction rehab. Each ended in relapse.

Nov 5, 2023 | nytimes.com | Robert Kolker |Jack D’Isidoro |Aaron Esposito |John Woo

Jack D’Isidoro and Sophia Lanman and The beginning of the story was strangely familiar, like the opening scene in a shopworn police procedural: A woman runs screaming down a street in Oak Beach, a secluded gated community on Long Island’s South Shore, only to vanish, it seems, into thin air. It was almost dawn on May 1, 2010. Hours earlier, Shannan Gilbert traveled from New Jersey to see a man who had hired her as an escort from a Craigslist ad. By the time the police arrived, she was gone.

Oct 29, 2023 | nytimes.com | Nicholas Casey |Jack D’Isidoro |Aaron Esposito |John Woo

Jack D’Isidoro and Sophia Lanman and On Oct. 19, 2021, Armando Linares López was writing up notes from an interview when his cellphone buzzed with an unknown number. Linares, 49 and stocky with black hair that was just starting to show gray streaks, ran an online news site in a small Mexican city called Zitácuaro. He knew his beat so intimately that calls from unfamiliar phone numbers were rare. But the man on the other end spoke in a way that was instantly familiar.

Oct 8, 2023 | nytimes.com | Keri Blakinger |Jack D’Isidoro |Aaron Esposito |John Woo |Corey Schreppel |David Mason

The first time Tony Ford played Dungeons & Dragons, he was a wiry Black kid who had never seen the inside of a prison. His mother, a police officer in Detroit, had quit the force and moved the family to West Texas. To Ford, it seemed like a different world. Strangers talked funny, and El Paso was half desert. But he could skateboard in all that open space, and he eventually befriended a nerdy white kid with a passion for Dungeons & Dragons.

Aug 27, 2023 | nytimes.com | Brooke Jarvis |Jack D’Isidoro |Aaron Esposito |John Woo

Jack D’Isidoro and Sophia Lanman and The signs on the gateat the entrance to the path and along the edge of the reservoir were clear. “No swimming,” they warned, white letters on a red background. On a chill mid-April day in northwest England, with low, gray clouds and rain in the forecast, the signs hardly seemed necessary. But then people began arriving, by the dozens and then the hundreds. Some walked only from nearby Hayfield, while others came by train or bus or foot from many hours away.