After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

A novel interrogation technique is transforming the art of detective work: Shut up and let the suspect do the talking.

There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. It’s racist.

The number one place Tampa Bay cops visit: Walmart. And it’s not even close — they average two trips an hour.

“After 14 years I finally reported him. In the eyes of the law, my biggest mistake was not fearing him more.”

How cops are using nuisance abatement actions to put New Yorkers on the streets.

The work of California Task Force Two, the “Seal Team Six of disaster aid.”

Madeleine Fullard is on a mission to locate the remains of apartheid’s murdered activists. She needs the help of Eugene de Kock, a former police squad leader known as “Prime Evil,” to do so.

The life of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, shot dead by the police in Washington state.

The detective work that led to the recovery of a trove of stolen Nazi art.

The failures of the “broken windows” approach to policing.

The Cleveland police are still adamant that they did nothing wrong in the killing of 12-year-old Tamir Rice.

Decades after a young nun was murdered, a group of former Catholic high school students begin to suspect that an abusive priest may have been the culprit.

Revisiting the 6200 block of Osage Avenue.

A faked marriage between undercover agents leads to the arrest of a dozen drug dealers.

The sheriff of Putnam County, Georgia, finally meets a case he can’t solve.

The murder of a 34-year-old by a wig-wearing figure traces back to meth, an FBI sting and a former municipal judge who once sent a live copperhead snake to a foe through the U.S. mail.

Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.

Being exonerated for a crime you didn’t commit is a hard-won triumph. But how can the state make up for what you’ve lost while in prison?

A home for troubled children in California comes undone.

A profile of Judy Clarke, the publicity-shy anti-death-penalty attorney, who has defended the Unabomber, Susan Smith, and Jared Loughner.

“When I was a child, Dad told me that he chose to become a cop because a cop was the most respected man on the block. When I took a seat at the grown folks table, he told me that he wanted control.”

Miriam Carey died at the hands of the Secret Service. Over a year later, her family has no real answers about what happened to her.