Two young girls attempt to murder another in Waukesha, Wisconsin, trying to bring an internet meme to life.

A treasure hunter found the world’s richest shipwreck off the coast of Cape Cod. Or at least that’s what he told his investors.

Neale McShane’s jurisdiction in the Australian Outback is roughly the size of the United Kingdom. He patrols it alone.

Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.

We know that certain programs can help prevent gun deaths among black men. No one in Washington seems to care.

Inside “a surreal world of pseudo-scientific methods and jargon, traumatizing psychodramas and nude cuddling with counselors.”

The story of Akai Gurley before he was killed by a New York City police officer.

How an art shipper took advantage of the market’s opaque rules and shadowy deal-making to rip off a Russian oligarch.

Defensive end Shawn King was the 36th pick in the 1995 draft. His career with the Carolina Panthers didn’t turn out as planned.

An attorney pieces together a life cut short.

An investigation leads to the deepest reaches of the internet.

Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—and then she found love with the model whose photographs he had stolen.

The haunted past of Amy Bishop, a University of Alabama neurobiologist who shot six colleagues during a staff meeting.

Forgetting a child in the backseat of a car is a horrifying mistake. But is it a crime?

Officers can lie to juries or brutally beat civilians and still keep their jobs.

If you are an enemy of Putin, there’s one city where intrigue and assassins are bound to follow you.

The executive and investor resigned from his position as Tronc chairman hours before the news.

After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.

A look at the rapper’s decade-plus ordeal.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

Millions of American children were placed in the Catholic orphanage system. Some didn’t make it out alive.

A 23-year-old living in Chile was suddenly attacked and buried alive by her roommate. She later learned she wasn’t his first – or last – victim.

Twelve years ago, Amber Wyatt reported her rape. Few believed her. Her hometown turned against her. The authorities failed her.

An acclaimed American charity said it was saving some of the world’s most vulnerable girls from sexual exploitation. But from the very beginning, girls were being raped.