Longform Best of 2012

The decades-long saga of Michael Morton, who was wrongfully convicted of killing his wife.

Part 1 • Part 2

As a 15-year runaway hitchhiker, the writer was nearly killed by a trucker. Twenty seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.

The murderous tale of Washington D.C. fabulist Albrecht Muth and his late wife Viola Drath.

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

A medical device company experiments on humans.