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Michael Finkel (born 1969) is a journalist and memoirist, who has written the books True Story: Murder, Memoir, Mea Culpa (2005), The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit (2017), and The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (2023) about Stéphane Breitwieser.
He hid in Mexico using the identity of Michael Finkel, a journalist played by Hill. [3] The film premiered at the 2015 Sundance Film Festival and was released theatrically on April 17, 2015, in the United States. It explores the relationship that develops between the two men after journalist Finkel begins to meet with Longo in prison.
Journalist Michael Finkel met with Knight for nine one-hour sessions while he was in jail. This was the genesis for first an article in GQ in August 2014, and then the book The Stranger In The Woods , published in March 2017.
Danny Casolaro, the investigative journalist whose death in 1991 was controversially ruled a suicide, is the subject of Netflix’s newest docu-series, American Conspiracy: The Octopus Murders.
When in Mexico, Longo used the name of Michael Finkel, the former New York Times reporter who later chronicled their experiences in his memoir True Story, [14] which was adapted into a 2015 film of the same name starring James Franco as Longo and Jonah Hill as Finkel. Longo was incarcerated on death row at Oregon State Penitentiary.
According to journalist Michael Finkel's 2023 book The Art Thief, Breitwieser's first theft was in early 1994 in Thann, a medieval town in northeastern France. Breitwieser stole an 18th-century flintlock pistol from the Museum of the Friends of Thann.
Chaos erupted at Secretary of State Antony Blinken’s final press conference Thursday after an announced Israel-Hamas cease-fire and hostage deal, with State Department employees forcibly ...
C. Bill Cahir; Lawton Campbell; Marj Carpenter; Jeanne C. Smith Carr; John Carreyrou; John Cashman (journalist) Ruben Castaneda; Mario Cattabiani; Jerome Ceppos