An Iraq War veteran assuages his PTSD with bank heists.

A family turns to murder to save one of their own.

Jurors from the Emmett Till trial revisit the case 50 years later.

A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.

Life on the outside is full of unpleasant surprises for longtime inmates.

The abusive relationship between a Bell Gardens mayor and his wife ends with her firing a gun.

A man had a gift for teaching people to beat the polygraph. Now he’s going to prison.

How a former member of Jesus People USA exposed its history of sexual abuse.

Activist investor Bill Ackman set out to destroy the multilevel marketing company. But did he wind up helping it succeed instead?

A trailer and the people who lived with Dylann Roof in it before he killed nine people in a Charleston church.

Dr. Joel Dreyer was a respected psychiatrist. Then he took a sudden turn to a life of drug dealing. Medicine might be able to explain why.

The writer reconnects with an old acquaintance who ten years earlier committed one of the most notorious crimes in New York history.

Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.

A young journalist spent her days covering sexual assault and domestic violence. Then she became the story.

What seems like a slam-dunk case against a mass murderer exposes widespread prosecutorial misconduct in Orange County.

Arno Smit bilked millions out of Tulare County dairy workers (and at least one wealthy widow). Then he disappeared.

The complicated case of Michelle Kosilek, a murderer fighting for sexual reassignment surgery.

How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.

Investigating an astrophysicist’s sudden death at an isolated resesarch base in Antarctica.

A respected anti-gang crusader shoots and paralyzes another man.

In 1995, Ramirez allegedly raped Patricia Esparza. He was tortured and killed weeks later. Now she’s charged with his murder. Is she responsible?

On the discovery of a billion dollars worth of artwork looted by Nazis in the cramped apartment of a Munich recluse.

A private investigator asks a magazine to write a puff piece on his business. The journalist finds a real story.