A cop kills a fellow officer during a drug bust and claims it was an accident. Others suspect that it wasn’t.

A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.

In short order, eight gay men in Texas were murdered by teenage boys.

The case of the murdered real-estate legend and her enraged assistant.

In 1981, Randall Smith murdered two hikers on the Appalachian Trail. Twenty-seven years later, he tried to do it again.

A fingerprint expert spends decades investigating the death of an unidentified boy found in the woods in 1957.

A portrait of Trayvon Martin’s killer.

She survived an evil, gruesome attack. Her partner did not. An account of a victim, a widow, telling her story on the witness stand.

Update, 4/16/12: This piece was just awarded the 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Feature Writing.

On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.

An investigative look at the killing of Trayvon Martin.

Is a serial killer on the loose in Wellfleet? An investigation.

The noon chimes in the bell-clock tower rising above him to the building’s 307-foot pinnacle sounded: pom-pom-pom-pom . . . 16 notes, high and sweet. Some say the chimes say a poem:

“Lord, through this hour
“Be Thou my guide,
“For in Thy power
“I do confide.”

After the chimes, there is a long pause — 23 seconds if you hold a wristwatch on it — time enough for a practiced man to reload three rifles and a shotgun.

“Doc” Quigg’s wire report on the 1966 Texas Tower shooting on the campus of UT-Austin.