Authorities say an American electronics engineer committed suicide after working on a project involving a Chinese telecom giant. His family believes he was murdered.

On the 1866 murder of Laura Foster and the subsequent hanging of Tom Dula.

How Curtis Duffy overcame his parents’ murder-suicide to become one of the nation’s great chefs.

Andre Thomas cut out his children’s hearts and removed his own eyes. Texas considers him sane.

On the case of young Joseph Hall, who was convicted last month of murdering his dad.

Visiting a lost friend.

The bodies in the chalet were found in a secret chamber, arranged radiating out from a point like spokes in a wheel. Some had suffocated, some had been shot. They all were followers of a mysterious prophet, Luc Jouret.

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.

How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.

An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.

After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.

Robert Blake, Bonny Lee Bakley, and the misery of celebrity.

He was the father of Neuro-Linguistic Programming (a school of therapy that some would liken to scientific brainwashing), a guzzler of cocaine, and a highly paid lecturer with fabricated credentials. He was present when a young woman shot herself in Santa Cruz—but did he pull the trigger? A “parable for the New Age.”

Analysis of the divisive murder case.

Reverse engineering the details of a murder that took place in St. Louis on Christmas Night in 1895 from over a century of popular song.

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

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

“When I’m in Nigeria, I find myself looking at the passive, placid faces of the people standing at the bus stops. They are tired after a day’s work, and thinking perhaps of the long commute back home, or of what to make for dinner. I wonder to myself how these people, who surely love life, who surely love their own families, their own children, could be ready in an instant to exact a fatal violence on strangers.”

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

A mystery writer moves into an apartment where a grisly crime was committed.

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

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.