Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.

Meeting Christopher Thomas Knight, a.k.a. the North Pond Hermit, who lived alone in the Maine woods for nearly 30 years.

“You probably don’t believe me, but I didn’t kill Harry.”

The story of a lawyer-turned-money launderer, stolen evidence, and a bunch of comics selling at outrageously high prices at auction. And Mussolini.

Pennsylvania is on the verge of saying yes.

Only after buying a new home did the Milliken family learn something terrible had happened in it.

How an entire industry built itself convincing lead-paint poisoning victims to sign over settlement payments for a fraction of what they’re worth.

The men who say they’ll try to save the once-bustling gambling resort town.

On a local talk show, Ted Bundy’s mother speaks to the family of one of his victims.

Government agencies have been trying to protect children for nearly 200 years. They are still failing.

How the feds flipped a corrupt American soccer official named Chuck Blazer and brought down the sport’s governing body.

A civil trial of Officer Marco Proano, who shot Niko Husband in 2011, finds him not guilty. By accident.

When he was 16, Mark Clements talked his way into four life sentences. Twenty-eight years later, he talked his way out.

A profile of Florida legend—and pardoned killer—Charlie Driver.

On the “Pacification Process,” or how we ended up in the least violent moment in our species’ existence.

On the 1934 lynching of Claude Neal, and the Florida town that kept the identity of those responsible a secret.

How Timothy Patrick Barrus, a white writer of gay erotica, reinvented himself a (wildly successful) Native American memoirist.

A group of journalists and researchers wade into ugly corners of the Internet to expose racists, creeps, and hypocrites. Have they gone too far?

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

Reconstructing the investigation into Rafik Hariri’s assassination, for which five men stand trial in absentia.

A white gangster immerses himself in Asian culture to lead a Chinatown gang. He even learns to pour tea correctly.

Truancy is punishable by fines, probation, and in some cases throwing parents in prison. Does any of that really keep kids in school?

An innocent man was executed – in 1761. Voltaire got on the case.

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.