The murder of a West Virginia teenager by her two best friends.

How war-crimes investigators captured top-secret documents tying the Syrian regime to mass murder.

The 1826 kidnapping – and murder – that begat America’s obsession with Masons.

“The murder of Anna Politkovskaya was at once unbelievable and utterly expected.”

On William Eggleston’s The Red Ceiling and an unsolved murder.

A murder, a missing deer head, and a Mr. Big sting.

On the murder at Lake Adelle.

The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.

Analysis of the divisive murder case.

An oral history project involving former IRA members becomes a prolonged court battle over a four-decade-old murder.

Skyrocketing prices for yarchagumba, a rare fungus prized as an aphrodisiac, has led to Nepali villagers to turf wars—and possibly murder.

After a murder in the California wilderness, the search for the killer raises complicated questions about mental illness.

Two young girls attempt to murder another in Waukesha, Wisconsin, trying to bring an internet meme to life.

After a cop walks into his station and confesses to murder, an investigation reveals the toll of lethal force on both sides of the gun.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

Two angry men submerged themselves in the far-right internet. One committed murder. The other walked away. Why?

An unarmed man, a cop charged with murder, and the challenge of policing mental illness.

A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ’80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to “one of the unlikeliest murder suspects in the city’s history.”

How P. Rajagopal, the founder of one of the world’s largest vegetarian restaurant chains, got away with murder.

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

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

Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.

On how a childhood spent in New York City’s tenements led a 15-year-old boy to be convicted of murder.

The long legal saga of Kerry Max Cook, who for almost 40 years fought to clear his name after being convicted of murder.

Seth Herter’s life was full of delusions. But the murder was all too real.