The story of Melissa Barthelemy, a prostitute killed in a string of murders on Long Island in December 2010.

An unemployed banker drifts along Occupy protests, his crumbling life, and a crime scene.

"Against the bleachers’ far end, beyond the scope of the cameras, Michael was thinking again about Brussels. The bullet had rung out with plunky subtlety he knew to expect but found disappointing, still. He remembered a cathedral there and the sound he had heard inside of it. This was years ago. The sound he recalled was a cane that he’d heard falling onto the cathedral’s marble floor. The way sound survives inside a cathedral. He remembered looking across the aisle to a hairless woman with earrings dangling halfway down her neck. In the darkness of Chicago, the boy’s body called to him for a closer look, he still had his phone after all, a camera. He could hear the sirens approaching."

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

On the murder of Jam Master Jay.

On “Night Stalker” Richard Ramirez,who terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco through a string of over 30 home invasion murders starting in 1984 and ending when he was recognized and apprehended by an angry mob.

Twenty-six years after he was wrongfully imprisoned for the murder of his wife, Michael Morton sees the real killer brought to justice in a Texas courthouse.

The Yale professor suspected of murdering his student.

“Southwark’s petty thugs must have thought all their birthdays had come at once: a well-dressed toff stumbling round their borough in no state to defend himself, and with an alcoholic street whore as his only companion.”

Reconstructing a mysterious 1892 London murder.

In North Georgia, two men feud over a quarter-mile property line.

Inside the Oscar Pistorius murder case.

He was a hedge-funder with a coke problem. She liked to drink and was thrice-divorced before they got married. When the police arrived, she was clutching his dead body in the shallow end of their pool. She would soon be accused of murder—not by the cops, but her Internet psychic.

Two sisters help detectives solve a decades-old cold case by identifying their father as their mother’s killer.

An endangered-species murder mystery in Hawaii.

A financier and his wife build a mansion in the jungles of Costa Rica, set up a wildlife preserve, and appear to slowly, steadily lose their minds. A spiral of handguns, angry locals, armed guards, uncut diamonds, abduction plots, and a bedroom blazing with 550 Tiffany lamps ends with a body and a mystery: Did John Felix Bender die by his own hand? Or did Ann Bender kill him to escape their crumbling dream?

A legal battle over stolen computer monitors ends one man’s career and the lives of three others.

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

After watching his father Sandy abuse his paralyzed former-jockey mother for years, Mat Crichton committed murder. Nearly the entire local farming community rallied in support of him.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.

Three boys falsely accused of murder, and what the twenty-year saga says about all of us.

A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.

It’s tempting to think Marco McMillian was killed because of his race, his sexuality, or because he was running for mayor. The truth is more elusive.