How the culture of academia helped Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama scientist who murdered colleagues during a faculty meeting, fall apart.

The detective work that led to the recovery of a trove of stolen Nazi art.

Park Service and Forest Service employees face sexual harassment and assault in America’s wild places.

Overcrowding in prisons leads to doubling up inmates in solitary confinement, regardless of their homicidal intentions or mental health.

How three friends and a team of frat brothers made a fortune smuggling people along the most heavily patrolled stretch of highway in Texas.

A murder involving one of the India’s celebrity couples has mesmerized the country and exposed some of its darkest fears.

There’s software used across the country to predict future criminals. It’s racist.

Three days, 64 people shot, six of them dead: Memorial Day weekend in Chicago.

“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”

At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, and went back to high school. Then she went to jail.

How two high school wrestling teammates ended up on opposites side of the law during Miami’s cocaine wars.

Isaiah Wall wants to get his life on track. But first, he’s gotta buy drugs for the police.

The story of Martin McNally, who hijacked a plane in 1972. Among other crimes.

An investigation into 62 incidents caught on video shows how cops are incentivized to lie — and why they get away with it.

“These, I now know, are the details of how my mother died..:”

Everyone knows who killed Rodolfo Illanes. So why is his death such a mystery?

The rise and fall of a violent underground anti-racist group.

Flashbacks from the life of Aaron Hernandez from the person who knew him best, his older brother Jonathan.

The activist who turned off the Keystone pipeline last fall is facing years in prison - and not backing down.

What should be done with the bodies of ISIS fighters? While investigating in Mosul, the author uncovers a terrible crime.

Investigating the disappearance of a trans teen who hasn’t been seen since 2012.

A year in the life of Gwen Woods, after her son was killed by police.

The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.

On the promise of 23-year-old Nicholas Cleves, who died in the bike path attack in New York.

How the Coast Guard expanded the war on drugs into international waters.