The Servant Girl Murders were one America’s earliest serial killings, predating Jack the Ripper by three years.

In 1948, a corpse was found on a beach in Adelaide, Australia. His identity, and how he died, remains a mystery.

In 1964, a Ku Klux Klan “hit squad” rode into Ferriday, Louisiana and set Frank Morris on fire. Nearly a half-century later, one of the alleged participants is still a free man.

In 1982, seven people ingested Tylenol sprinkled with a fatal dose of cyanide. The case has never been solved.

An oral history of Motown Records, its founder Berry Gordy, and 1960s Detroit.

On wandering through the city’s “post-American” landscape.

A response to the national media’s mourning.

On Mayor Dave Bing’s plan to demolish 10,000 abandoned homes throughout the city.

On his last day at the paper, memories from Kaplan’s 15 years at the helm.

A profile of Beatty as Bulworth hit theaters.

A profile of post-Observer Kaplan.

Kaplan on 9/11 and the city he loved.

On the Wise and Cranky Kaplan Twitter feeds.

A profile of Gardner in her twilight.

What happened when Toto Constant, Haiti’s most notorious warlord, resurfaced as a real estate agent in Queens.

Tracking down a Congolese warlord wanted by the International Criminal Court for conscripting child soldiers proves surprisingly easy; he’s a military official and owns a bar, dairy, and mansion.

In which three American journalists—the author plus Sebastian Junger and John Falk—almost accidentally capture the world’s most wanted war criminal. The basis for the 2007 film The Hunting Party.

After failing to capture Josef Mengele in Argentina when he was nearly in grasp, an international effort was mounted to determine whether a skull was indeed his, which would mean an end to the search for major Nazi war criminals.

An Ethiopian torture victim happens upon her torturer working as a bellhop in an Atlanta hotel.