The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

Manson at 79: in poor health and walking with a cane, obsessed with Vincent Bugliosi, willing to talk at length with a reporter for the first time in years, and visited every weekend by a 25-year-old woman he calls Star.

The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.

How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.

Separating truth from lore in Haiti: “The dossier was, at bottom, a murder story, the judge said—but it was a murder story with the great oddity that the victim did not die.”

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

The complicated case of Michelle Kosilek, a murderer fighting for sexual reassignment surgery.

An examination of the Minutemen movement and death on the border.

After a beloved teacher is murdered by his schizophrenic son, his colleagues and students pay him the ultimate tribute.

On the fall of Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged creator of The Silk Road, a hidden black market website where users could buy and sell drugs, guns and, according to the FBI, the services of a hit man.

How the author, following up on a rumor, helped reignite the dormant investigation into the murder of Martha Moxley, a teenager who had been murdered nearly 25 years before in Greenwich, Connecticut.

What a secret audio tape revealed about the murder of mycologist and magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.

On the hanging of James Murphy, murderer.

The house at 114 Lake Avenue in Bristol, CT that kept calling Aaron Hernandez, a NFL star by 20, back to “a volatile underworld of guns, drugs, and violence.”

How a serial killer and his teenage accomplice used listings for “the job of a lifetime” to lure their victims, all down-and-out single men, to the backwoods of Ohio.

Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Instead he was convicted–wrongly–of first-degree murder and spent the next 27 years in prison.

Unpacking a false confession 20 years later.

Interlocking narratives of relationships and a potential murder.

"Metal ran in an extensive and intricate network in streams across the countryside and densely through the city. Metal channeled the blood, and metal screws held Sarah’s glasses together as she left the parking lot and exited Le Roy onto the freeway. She felt sad to have missed a chance to get involved with a crazed dangerous person like Mike. Had he really committed a murder before she picked him up? She thought about the geese and drove home."

An older brother’s murder and its aftermath.

After a botched bank robbery in 1990, Sture Bergwall, aka Thomas Quick, confessed to a string of brutal crimes. He admitted to stabbings, stranglings, incest and cannibalism. He was convicted of eight murders in all, and after the final trial he went silent for nearly a decade. But a few years ago, Bergwall came forward again—there was one more secret he had to tell.

Jurors from the Emmett Till trial revisit the case 50 years later.

The crimes of former NFL star Rae Carruth.

Previously: “The Boy They Couldn’t Kill” (Thomas Lake • Sports Illustrated)

Encounters with Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler.