West was just a place where people pulled off the highway to buy kolaches. Then it exploded.

She was 52, homeless, and cancer-stricken. A group of devoted strangers vowed that she would not die alone. And then something miraculous happened. One woman’s beautiful, strange, and troubling final days.

Fifty rapes. Ten murders. Two identities. One man. From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known, never caught, and might still be out there. Now a determined investigator, a retired detective, and a group of online obsessives are on the hunt to track him down.

Chasing the boom in South Texas.

[sub req’d] Walter Keller had nearly lost his battle with leukemia when he went to Penn’s Carl June and his group of researchers for a radical new cancer treatment. What happened next may change medicine forever.

Who is Amelia Earhart?

Out of prison and on the move, the legendary crack dealer is seeking his fortune yet again. A journalist picks up the trail of the man who has captivated and confounded him for decades.

And as President and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, Richard Fisher helps make the money go round. Meet the Fed’s most unlikely central banker.

He’s hilarious, hugely influential, and beloved by his many powerful friends. But Jeffrey Goldberg’s hotheaded attempts to referee the infighting over Israel make him perhaps the most polarizing journalist in town. Who died and made him Moses?

[sub req’d] From the time of his arrest three years ago, the charges against Kermit Gosnell were almost too grisly to digest. But was he a madman, or something else? Here, Steve Volk unravels the decades-long saga of the notorious abortion doctor—and the war he believed he was waging.

Only 132 of Chicago’s 507 murders were solved last year. Why is the Chicago Police Department struggling to bring so many killers to justice?

A St. Louis entrepreneur’s brilliant idea won instant FDA approval. Eight years later, babies started dying. Was there a connection?

She rose from nothing to become the decorated head coach for women’s track and field at the University of Texas, winning six NCAA championships, sending countless athletes to the Olympics, and turning the school’s program into the country’s standard for excellence. Then Bev Kearney was abruptly forced to resign because of an illicit affair. But she didn’t get where she is by giving up without a fight.

Aboard Air Force One—during one of America’s most searing, perilous moments—a government was formed and a presidency begun.

[sub req’d] Julia Law was a pretty paralegal dating the city’s most famous defense attorney. But the story of how she ended up dead in his house in May is one of secrets and lies.

Fear and self-loathing on the Provincetown ferry, or how I learned to stop worrying and love the gay ghetto.

The baby boomers are slowing down while the millennials are speeding up. Maybe what the boomers need is ADHD medication.

On trying oysters.

A modern tale of life, death, and morbid Google searches.

I’ve always struggled with feeling like an outsider. By joining Mensa, could I find a place where I fit in?