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

On dirty laundry and the meaning of freedom.

The little-understood history of the whales and how barnacles may be the key to understanding how giant mammals evolved underwater.

A nasty divorce ends in murder and national notoriety.

Can Karen Navarra’s Fitbit explain her murder?

He was an itinerant preacher who claimed god have revealed him to be the one true prophet. He kidnapped Elizabeth Smart  and lived with her in a makeshift camp for years. She was hard to find; not because he was sly, but because Utah is full of prophets with multiple young wives.

An examination of the continued fascination with the 6-year-old beauty queen, 20 years after her murder.

What really happened at 2475 Glendower Place.

A dispatch from North Carolina.

An unexplainable murder, double jeopardy, and military courts: the strange case of Tim Hennis.

On a Victorian-era murder case, and the novel it inspired.

The Manhattan murder mystery spurred a tabloid drama that engulfed the city’s rich and powerful. But what really happened?

The story of H.H. Holmes, America’s first serial killer.

One woman’s ghastly dollhouse dioramas turned crime scene investigation into a science.

Who killed four people in the French Alps?

On FIFA’s history of scandal.

The life and death of Srinivas Kuchibhotla.

The Yale professor suspected of murdering his student.

On the “black widow” of Keller, Texas.

The life and last days of U.S. Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens.

On the brutal killing of a high school girl in British Columbia.

Death, ISIS, and tourism in the Atlas Mountains.

Unraveling the case of a Canadian man suffering from schizophrenia, put on trial for murder in New York, but found not criminally responsible in Nova Scotia.

She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.

In 1963, a Black politician named Ben Lewis was shot to death in Chicago. Clues suggest the murder was a professional hit. Decades later, it remains no accident authorities never solved the crime.