How the island paradise of Seychelles became a magnet for money launderers and tax dodgers.

How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.

On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.

The story of a naïve fisherman, a boat headed for Spain and 1.5 tons of cocaine.

“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”

An investigation into who knew what, and when.

How a doctor and an S.A.C. trader got entangled in a financial scandal.

What do you do when you think a family member is a murderer? Step one: stop eating her food.

How Bernardo Provenzano, “boss of all bosses of the Sicilian Mafia” and fugitive for more than 40 years, got caught.

The perilous existence of confidential informants.

The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.

Behind the tabloid story of the “murder orphan” in Queens.

Trevell Coleman wasn’t sure whether he’d killed a man. But after 17 years, he needed to find out.

Analysis of the divisive murder case.

Revisiting a 30-year-old beating death in St. Louis.

On the culture of misogyny and abuse at one of the nation’s largest megachurches.

A case of mistaken identity and the incarceration of an innocent man.

A Hells Angel informant’s path from destruction to redemption and back, and a family’s trouble with witness protection.

After a beloved teacher is murdered by his schizophrenic son, his colleagues and students pay him the ultimate tribute.

Meggett was an All-Pro running back for the New York Giants. He was also a serial rapist.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

How four prisoners in solitary confinement launched the largest hunger strike in American history.

How a group of vigilante cat-lovers seeking the hooded figure who suffocated a kitten in an internet video found a sadistic killer.

The mysterious death of Alfred Wright in the shadow of a town’s history of racial violence.