Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He’s about to get out of prison.

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

In the wake of a vicious murder, the state of Oregon wrestles with what went wrong in its mental health system.

Two men were sent to prison for killing a French tourist in Manhattan in 1987. Can they overturn their convictions?

An early profile of Carole Baskin, proprietor of Big Cat Rescue in Tampa.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.

Big banks entrusted money to an armored truck company GardaWorld. It secretly lost track of millions.

Two metal-detector enthusiasts discovered a Viking hoard. It was worth a fortune—but it became a nightmare.

An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.

Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

How homelessness is criminalized in small cities and towns across the West.

Park ranger Paul Fugate vanished on an Arizona trail more than forty years ago. Investigators are still looking for him.

For nearly 17 years, the truth about the murder of Mac Dre has been one of hip-hop’s great unsolved mysteries.

Flordelis became famous as a gospel singer, a pastor, and a politician. Then her husband was killed.

The trucker blew a stop sign and hit a bus full of teenagers. Now the families of the dead grapple with their capacity to forgive.

When a rash of sensational museum robberies stunned Europe, police zeroed in on a fearsome crime family—and a flashy new generation of young outlaws.

Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force.

393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

There’s no telling how many guns there are in America—and when one gets used in a crime, no way for the cops to connect it to its owner. The only place the police can turn for help is a Kafkaesque agency in West Virginia, where, thanks to the gun lobby, computers are illegal and detective work is absurdly antiquated. On purpose.

Lance Butterfield was the captain of the football team, had a 4.0 GPA and a girl he loved. It wasn’t enough for his dad. And then his dad became too much for him.
Part of our guide to Skip Hollandsworth’s true crime writing at Slate.

“Jeffrey Levitt stole and misappropriated a grand total of fourteen million, six hundred ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred forty-seven dollars and fifty-eight cents. He stole all that. It was the largest single white-collar crime in Maryland history, almost bringing down the state’s entire savings and loan industry.” And it still wasn’t enough.

“These documents show how Palantir applies Silicon Valley’s playbook to domestic law enforcement. New users are welcomed with discounted hardware and federal grants, sharing their own data in return for access to others’. When enough jurisdictions join Palantir’s interconnected web of police departments, government agencies, and databases, the resulting data trove resembles a pay-to-access social network—a Facebook of crime that’s both invisible and largely unaccountable to the citizens whose behavior it tracks.”