On the difficulties of holding Oakland’s thin blue line accountable.

The life history of an unassuming Sudanese man, Noor Uthman Muhammed, who has spent the last nine years in Guantánamo Bay prison.

Beyond the fact that he lacked a pulse, little is known about the man found on an Adelaide beach in 1948.

A blow-by-blow account of Howard Unruh’s slow, deadly walk through Camden, New Jersey – filed an hour before deadline.

On the lifestyle of a fugitive retiree, and how it came to an end.

How LA-style gang life migrated to the slums of San Salvador.

An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.

What it’s like to be a first responder amid the rise of synthetic marijuana.

The Runaways, their manager Kim Fowley, and the rape of the band’s bassist, long kept a secret.

To reduce recidivism, a program brings criminals face to face with their victims. The results aren’t always what you’d expect.

Her parents wanted Jennifer to be successful. The pressure may have led her to plot their murder.

When all else failed, he commandeered a bus, and saved his neighbors. Now he’s in prison.

The story of a sudden death amid a high school recruiting scandal in Texas.

The ongoing question of forgiveness in Charleston, where Dylann Roof opened fire in a church on June 17th.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

In a remote corner of Romania, neighbors kill each other over tiny strips of land.

The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it.

A secret meeting, and short Q&A, with the drug lord while he was still on the lam.

Twenty years ago, Brian Peixoto was convicted of killing his girlfriend’s 3-year-old son. But is he innocent?

“After 14 years I finally reported him. In the eyes of the law, my biggest mistake was not fearing him more.”

Telephone poles began to appear around the same time that white Americans started lynching black Americans.

Justice isn’t so easy to come by when an American soldier stationed abroad is accused of murder.

Mamoru Samuragochi’s story turned out to be too good to be true.

A man’s love of pigeons leads him to build a Ponzi scheme out of birds.

Lessons learned about white-collar crime from an economist turned bagel salesman whose business relied entirely on the honor system.