In Colorado and beyond, a negotiated surrender in the war on drugs.

Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.

An alleged rape and one woman’s futile quest for justice in modern China.

On the experimental favela police force UPP (aka “The Big Skull”) and their efforts to clean Rio’s largest slum in advance of the World Cup and Olympics.

Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.

At various points, Thomas Mitchell was a novelist, an attorney, a scientist, a Hollywood dealmaker and a CIA higher-up. He was also a con man.

Money, fraud and a sacred prophecy.

An essay on Jimmy Savile, British television and child sexual abuse.

How modernity – and an eruption of violence – changed “the most remote inhabited island on the Atlantic seaboard.”

A woman's communications and interactions with a potential criminal.

"The beaten man lurches to his feet and pulls out a shape, a gun, from his pocket–somehow it must have escaped the notice of the other men before. He staggers backward into the porticos and I can no longer see him. But a minute later I can hear him yelling in English as he storms up the stairs of my building, calling, 'Help! Help!' and hammering on doors. There are several banging sounds as though he’s fallen."

Life inside Long Island’s largest cluster of sex offenders.

The strange existence of the accused Internet pirate as he battles the U.S. government.

A California martial arts instructor’s secret past.

Previously: Finding Oscar

A strange, ongoing property battle among the richest of Texans.

How a couple made millions on uncanny forgeries.

How one woman is monitoring the jihadi network from a home office in Montana.

How Tony Galeota went from mobbed-up teen on Long Island to legendary strip club manager in Miami to distraught prisoner in a Panamanian jail.

Ten years after D.C. area sniper shootings, an interview with Lee Boyd Malvo.

How a small-town comptroller became the biggest municipal embezzler in U.S. history.

A family’s struggle with mental illness and the criminal justice system.

What the wife of a ponzi schemer knew.

Joe Arridy had an IQ of 46. In 1939, he was executed for a crime he neither understood nor committed.

Is a Marine responsible for a series of violent attacks against women?

It started as a bluebird New Year’s Day in Mount Rainier National Park. But when a gunman murdered a ranger and then fled back into the park’s frozen backcountry, every climber, skier, and camper became a suspect—and a potential victim.

Did a handsome young Green Beret doctor kill his pregnant wife and two daughters? Or, as he claims, did a group of candle-carrying hippies carry out a vicious home invasion while chanting “Acid is groovy, kill the pigs”? A mystery that spanned three decades.