Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.

The impact of a life map and a stipend on those in the gang life in Richmond, CA.

In his old life, Matthew Cox told stories to scam his way into millions of dollars. Now he’s trying to make it by selling tales that are true.

Vince Ramos wanted Phantom Secure to be the Uber of privacy-focused, luxury-branded phones—flood the market with devices, and sort out the law later. Then the FBI investigated him.

Fifty years ago, 180,000 whales vanished from the ocean. The mystery is not who killed them, but why.

Many people hoped that this would be the second book she’d publish.

From a small Ohio town to Afghanistan, a portrait of the perpetrator of a massacre.

Discount chains are thriving — while fostering violence and neglect in poor communities.

The students swore they weren’t racists. A judge would decide their fate.

How crooked officials pulled off a massive scam, spent millions on Dubai real estate, and killed the author’s law partner when he tried to expose them.

Border Patrol agent Matthew Bowen had been investigated for years before he used his 4,000-pound truck to assault a fleeing migrant.

How a brilliant self-made software programmer from South Africa single-handedly built an online startup that became one of the largest individual contributors to America’s burgeoning painkiller epidemic. In his world, everything was for sale. Pure methamphetamine manufactured in North Korea. Yachts built to outrun coast guards. Police protection and judges’ favor. Crates of military-grade weapons. Private jets full of gold. Missile-guidance systems. Unbreakable encryption. African militias. Explosives. Kidnapping. Torture. Murder. It's a world that lurks just outside of our everyday perception, in the dark corners of the internet we never visit, the quiet ports where ships slip in by night, the back room of the clinic down the street.

Judge Donna Scott Davenport oversees a juvenile justice system in Rutherford County, Tennessee, with a staggering history of jailing children. She said kids must face consequences, which rarely seem to apply to her or the other adults in charge.

Three months before it all started, she'd been a shy sophomore at Aurora Central High School, a member of the soccer and speech teams. Then Randy Miller had come out of prison and back into her world. A 22-year-old former child prostitute and drug dealer, Miller had promised to take her away from a tumultuous and painful home life. But the journey he had in mind led downward, into a terrifying series of home invasions and armed robberies and, finally, a few hours after the King Soopers stickup, to a standoff with state troopers in a small Kansas town.

Unraveling a lucrative crime ring.

One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.

Two successful tech geeks slip into organized crime.

A bank robber tells the story of a successful heist.

Joe Arpaio is tough on prisoners and undocumented immigrants. What about crime?

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

A mobster, a family and the crime that won’t let them go.

What happens when America’s darkest crime writer sees the light?

A tragic crime. A medical breakthrough. A last chance at life.