A Death in Texas
On the U.S. immigration prison-industrial complex.
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Not Forgotten
On the LAPD’s decade-old cold case division: its detectives, its tactics, and its successes.
Murder by Text
On the brutal killing of a high school girl in British Columbia.
Revenge Killing
The death of an infant lands his father on death row in Louisiana.
Underworld
“Super tunnels” are a speciality of the Sinaloa drug cartel – and its leader, El Chapo.
The Selling of the Krays
A tale of British gangsters who were determined to be famous.
Magical Thinking About ISIS
On the response to the Paris attacks.
A Last Resort for Stolen Ships
The ‘repo men’ of the high seas.
Once Upon a Jihad
Life and death with the young and radicalized.
Charles Manson: The Incredible Story of the Most Dangerous Man Alive
A jailhouse interview.
Why It’s Impossible to Indict a Cop
An argument for how the system protects police.
The Weight of Guilt
Inside the world of bass fishing cheaters.
The Search for Petr Khokhlov
A Russian soldier vanishes in Ukraine.
Defending Those Accused of Unthinkable Crimes
On the lawyers who defend Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, Jared Loughner and Whitey Bulger.
The Boxer and the Batterer
An essay on Floyd Mayweather Jr. as both.
17 Shots in Pasco
The life of Antonio Zambrano-Montes, shot dead by the police in Washington state.
Dwight and Paul Have Left the Building
The life and death of an Elvis obsessive.
The Caging of America
On the scandal of our teeming prisons.
Do Fingerprints Lie?
Controversy over the alleged gold standard of forensic evidence.
Death of a Broker
The case of the murdered real-estate legend and her enraged assistant.
Till Murder Do Us Part
A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.
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Cocaine, Inc.
How a Mexican drug cartel makes its billions.
The Politics of Killing
Two men named Nathan committed murders. Only one received a death sentence.
The Demon in the Freezer
How smallpox went from eradicated disease to the ideal weapon of bioterrorists.
Prison Without Walls
Is letting convicts roam free under electronic surveillance better than putting them behind bars?
