The Spanish police believed he was a missing American teen. So did the Texas family who had lost him three years prior. But he was an adult Frenchman. And he had done it before.

He joined the right clubs, married the right woman, worked the right jobs, bought the right art. But the life Clark Rockefeller created wasn’t his. Neither was his name.

For nearly a decade, Laura Albert lived a double life as troubled teen turned cult writer JT LeRoy, writing books, chatting constantly with celebrities, and convincing another woman to appear as JT LeRoy in public.

The hidden, humble beginnings of a New York City blueblood.

For years, Alan Young has made a living off what he says is his only skill: pretending to be a member of The Temptations.

The story of a young man who got to be a high school basketball star. Twice.

On heading home for Thanksgiving.

A comatose Worcester girl is the catalyst for a string of miracles and becomes a tourist attraction.

What really happened at the World Trade Organization protests.

Cardinal Bernard Law knew as early as 1984 John Geoghan was molesting children. The priest would not be defrocked for 14 years.

The jury made a mistake when it convicted Abdul Raheem.

What’s a suburban soccer mom who was once fervently anti-drug doing running a business growing and selling pot?

Naffe, a young Republican, entered the belly of the political beast—and was nearly eaten.

On being gay in the military, three years before Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell.

Meet Faygele ben Miriam (formerly John Singer), the radical activist “beyond the leading edge” of the same-sex marriage fight.

A conservative case for gay marriage.

In 1920, Harvard University officials suspected that some students were gay. So they kicked them all out.

The activists, politicians, and social trends that led to 2012’s gay marriage victories.

As tens of thousands come out of the closet, gay political activism heats up.

A profile of Maggie Gallagher, founder of National Organization for Marriage.

Erwynn Umali, Will Behrens, and the first gay wedding on a military base.

The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

How Jerry Lee Lewis got away with murdering 25-year-old Shawn Michelle Stevens, his fifth wife.

He was a nobody who became a porn star, a porn star who became a destitute freebaser, an addict who set up his dealer to be robbed, and finally witness to a retaliatory massacre at the house they called Wonderland.

How two friends, working with nothing but an Internet connection, a couple of cellphones and a steady supply of weed, beat out Fortune 500 giants like General Dynamics to score a huge arms contract.

How a middle-class jock from a Texas border town who became La Barbie, one of the most ruthless and feared cartel leaders in Mexico.

Matthew Weigman was blind, overweight, 14 and alone. He could also do anything he wanted with a phone. Sometimes that meant calling Lindsay Lohan. Other times it meant sending a SWAT team to an enemy’s door.For

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.