In 2003, a man robbed a bank with a bomb around his neck. It exploded shortly thereafter, taking his life and leaving authorities to try to figure out who had put it there.

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

He helped build an artists’ utopia. Now he faces trial for 36 deaths there.

A car crash in Kentucky left a 13-year-old girl dead. A Sudanese refugee was charged with her killing. The story of the trial that followed.

“In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.”

There was no doubt: Jeremy Gross had brutally murdered a convenience store clerk. All that was left to decide was his punishment. Death or life without parole? The story of a capital murder trial, as seen from the jury box.

A comprehensive history of the case against the Menendez brothers, built primarily on secret audio recording made by their self-promoting therapist.

Pitcairn Island is impossibly remote, populated by descendants of a ship of British mutineers. Their population would not be revealed to the outside world until allegations of a culture of child molestation and rape that led back generations.

Dominick Dunne’s account of the trial of his daughter’s murderer.

A young, pregnant woman named Laci Peterson disappears, her husband begins to act strangely, and one of the largest media circuses in history descends on the sleepy community of Modesto, CA.

Three Dallas prostitutes were found dead in as many months. Charles Albright might be the last person you’d suspect–unless you knew about his lifelong obsession.

In 1993 a black teenager in London was randomly stabbed to death by a gang of white youths. Twenty years later, they would be at the center of the trial of the decade.

Even an “obstructionist bloc” can’t resist handing prosecutors the indictments they want.

A black 16-year-old lights a white, agender 18-year-old’s skirt on fire while riding the bus. Is it a hate crime? And what’s the appropriate punishment?

On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.

Junky, out-of-date science fuels jury errors and tragic miscarriages of justice. How can we throw it out of court?

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

A jury recommends life in prison; the judged orders a death sentence.

Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder was accused of taking a backpack. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island, without trial.

In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. The case hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse informant named Johnny E. Webb. Today, Webb says he lied.

“Which is how, despite the drinking, the stealing, the racist outburst, the abysmal courtroom performance, the disbarment, and the ultimate imprisonment of his lead attorney, an intellectually disabled man has ended up on the verge of execution.”

A filmmaker goes to court to fight the television commercial break.

The case of Gilberto Valle, “The Cannibal Cop,” and the line between criminal thoughts and action.

Allegations of child sexual and Satanic ritual abuse overtake an Austin suburb.

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