Thirty-one years ago, Joy Hunley’s daughter was adopted. At least that’s what the paperwork says.

After a 19-year-old is convicted of murdering his girlfriend, her family fights to free him from prison.

How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.

Texas’ modern day cattle rustlers and the twenty-seven lawmen who track them.

“I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.”

How a sexual assault case in Idaho involving refugee children morphed into an anti-refugee frenzy.

Violence convulses the city of Chicago after dark. Reporting on it leaves its own scars.

On ISDS, the parallel legal universe created by international treaties that allows corporations to sue countries and escape punishment.

With prices spiralling, poachers are digging for ginseng in the North Carolina hills.

He stole over $1 million in chips – then checked himself into casino’s hotel to live like a king.

“If we’re sitting here bored, getting high and we got guns around, it ain’t nothing else to do.”

A dispatch from the Philippine capital, where “no one will be safe until many, many more have died.”

How a series of lies and an incompetent lawyer led to a Florida woman’s wrongful conviction.

The prevalence of online threats against women and why the people who make them go unpunished.

What a secret audio tape revealed about the murder of mycologist and magic mushroom pioneer Steven Pollock.

Badfinger’s ill-fated attempt at a comeback, as orchestrated by a Milwaukee con man.

The conspiracy theories surrounding the 1931 death of Hitler’s niece and object of affection.

An interview with a Mexican-born American attorney who defended and eventually smuggled for the cartels in the ’90s.

What happened when 21-year-old Taiwan Smart became the target of both police and a reality TV show.

After eight women are murdered in Louisiana, what was initially thought to be the work of a serial killer becomes something much more troubling.

How a disgraced principal-turned real estate mogul helped cause the global financial crisis.

A triple homicide, the alleged involvement of a Boston Marathon bombing suspect, and those caught up in the FBI’s ongoing investigation.

How slot machines snuck into the mall, along with money laundering, bribery, shootouts, and billions in profits.

A profile of Ayman al-Zawahri, the Egyptian doctor who became Bin Laden’s #2 and has now taken over Al-Qaeda.