An oil tanker was ordered to save more than 100 migrants floating in the middle of the Mediterranean. Europe didn’t want them. They couldn’t go back to Libya. How would they survive?

A Dutch gallerist made thousands of forgeries and passed them off as the work of real artists. When he was caught, a new con began.

The black men from Pittsburgh who made up America’s original paramedic corps wanted to make history and save lives—starting with their own.

Klamath Country, Oregon, is the perfect place to disappear–and also a very dangerous place when someone is threatening your life.

Love, purpose, and prison on the Dakota Prairie.

A car crash in Kentucky left a 13-year-old girl dead. A Sudanese refugee was charged with her killing. The story of the trial that followed.

A new wife, a dead husband, and the arsenic panic that shook the Victorian world.

The story of Edward Averill, a blind man with one foot who robbed a bank in Austin, Texas.

What happens when an adoption fails?

On a Missouri farm, two families worked the land side by side, until a murder shattered their American dream.

A courageous tribe, a colossal foe, and a terrifying ocean voyage.

In September 2017, a police officer shot and killed a queer college student in Atlanta. By the end of the year, several of the student’s friends had been arrested, and two were dead. What happened at Georgia Tech?

Four days, two murders, and one poplar tree that almost ignited World War III.

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

How a journalist who wrote a seminal account of police brutality during the 1967 race riots in Newark wound up on the wrong side of the law.

How a group of hippie surfers and a former Spanish teacher built the largest weed-smuggling empire on the West Coast.

A feat of elegant design wowed elite architects and promised to bring education to poor children in Nigeria. Then it collapsed.

An Afghanistan love story.

First came seizures. Then he began forgetting words. By age four he could barely walk. The story of the race to save a child from a genetic death sentence.

Orange County’s first serial killer in 25 years stalked homeless men.

In 1921, a teenager died alone in Kentucky and was buried without a name. A century later, a team of sleuths set out to find his identity.

Bill Brookman has traveled to some of the world’s most dangerous places to disarm militias and negotiate with gangs. Bill Brookman is a clown.

The fake cops of Santa Monica.

On the eve of the Civil War, a nightmare at sea turned into one of the greatest rescues in maritime history. More than a century later, a rookie treasure hunter went looking for the lost ship—and found a different kind of ruin.

Half a century ago, an American commando vanished in the jungles of Laos. In 2008, he reappeared in Vietnam, reportedly alive and well. But nothing was what it seemed.