Michael Friscolanti

Maclean's Senior writer

Senior writer Michael Friscolanti spends a lot of time at crime scenes and courthouses. The author of 'Friendly Fire: The Untold Story of the U.S. Bombing That Killed Four Canadian Soldiers in Afghanistan', he has won three CAJ Awards for investigative journalism and three silver National Magazine Awards. His Twitter account has been hacked.

Demolition crews move in on Frank Meyers’s historic farm

‘It’s sneaky. They came in the middle of the night. What would you feel like?’

May 22nd, 2014 20 comments

Elliot Lake mall engineer asks for preview of report on the tragedy

Facing three criminal charges, Robert Wood worries the inquiry’s conclusions could taint potential jurors

May 21st, 2014

What did police learn from the Russell Williams investigation?

Nothing they can tell the public, according to a freedom of information request that took three years to process

May 8th, 2014 1 comment

Russell Williams and ex-wife Mary Elizabeth Harriman

Wife of serial killer Russell Williams loses court battle

Mary Elizabeth Harriman could be forced to testify about relationship with Williams for first time

May 2nd, 2014 3 comments

A bizarre grow-op odyssey comes to an end

Authorities couldn’t believe a real estate magnate had no idea his building housed a mammoth grow-op

May 1st, 2014

For a veteran Calgary cop, it was no ordinary call of duty

When his son was charged with mass murder, Insp. Douglas de Grood responded the only way he knows how

April 25th, 2014

Benjamin Forrest Steiger, 1997-2014

An aspiring cowboy who played guitar and drove a pickup truck, his ultimate dream was to be a rodeo champion

April 22nd, 2014

Mugshot of James "Whitey" Bulger. Boston Police Department.

Notorious gangster James ‘Whitey’ Bulger tells his story

A controversial documentary presents an alternative theory of one of the most notorious gangsters of our times

April 19th, 2014

Son of police inspector charged with five counts of first-degree murder

Michael Friscolanti on the latest details in the mass killing near the University of Calgary

April 15th, 2014 2 comments

Court case tackles the question: Where’s the beef?

Talk about a food fight: A sprawling legal case about a traveller’s ‘candy’ threatens to open a Pandora’s box at Canadian border crossings

April 13th, 2014 1 comment

Jordan Paul Gahan, 1992-2014

A race-car driver like his beloved father, he moved out west to finance his dream

April 8th, 2014

An engineering marvel gone horribly wrong

A book review of “Trapped Under the Sea” by Neil Swidey

March 14th, 2014

The winter that ruined everything

It broke records, kneecapped the economy, and showed us how ill-prepared Canada is for a future of extreme weather

March 13th, 2014 16 comments

Convicted killer Mohammad Shafia didn’t pay legal bills: lawyer

Lawyer to Tooba Mohammad Yahya sues for unpaid fees

February 19th, 2014 2 comments

Colonel Russell Williams, former Commander of Canadian Forces Base Trenton, is escorted from the Belleville courthouse

Russell Williams’s wife knew he was a predator: victim

Lawyer denies new court claim

February 10th, 2014 15 comments