After all these years, it’s still there, in the back of her mind, lurking. No matter how good things are going, it never quite goes away, this feeling that she should have died that day. And her brush with death is the first thing that strangers tend to notice about her, like a limp or a disfigurement. Once they find out where she went to high school, that’s all they want to talk about.
When she was a 15-year-old runaway, the writer was nearly killed by a truck driver. Twenty-seven years later, she investigates whether her attacker was truck stop serial killer Robert Ben Rhoades, who often kept his victims chained in the back of his truck for weeks before killing and dumping them.
Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.
Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.
The appearance of an ultra-rare Boba Fett with the missile rocks the insular world of Star Wars toy collectors.
It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”
While driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. The cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.
Ramsey Orta filmed the killing of Eric Garner—and the police punished him for it.
How order collapsed in an American city.
In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”
George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.
“In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.”
He has seduced and swindled young women for millions and is a fugitive from justice in several countries.
Are some celebrity mediums fooling their audience members by reading social media pages in advance? A group of online vigilantes is out to prove it.
A new wife, a dead husband, and the arsenic panic that shook the Victorian world.
Stéphane Breitwieser robbed nearly 200 museums, amassed a collection of treasures worth more than $1.4 billion, and became perhaps the most prolific art thief in history.
Angelika Graswald, also known as the Kayak Killer, went to jail for letting her fiancé drown in the Hudson River. Now she’s out on parole and looking to clear her name.
Rodrigo Rosenberg, a highly respected corporate attorney in Guatemala, began, in the spring of 2009, to prophesy his own murder. The unraveling of a political conspiracy.
An unfinished civil war inspires a global delusion.
In 2007, NBA ref Tim Donaghy pleaded guilty to betting on games he officiated. But it was never proved that he fixed them—until now.
Since 1998, roughly 380 Southern Baptist church leaders and volunteers have faced allegations of sexual misconduct. They left behind more than 700 victims.
Tomi Masters was a 23-year-old from Indiana who moved to California with dreams of making it big in the cannabis business. Then she met a hacker who introduced her to a dark new world of digital manipulation, suspicion, paranoia, and fear — one that swallowed her alive and left her floating in a river in the Philippines.
Tracking stolen firearms through the black market, from gun store thefts to crime scenes.
The battle over police torture and reparations in Chicago’s schools.
A single working mom begins a whirlwind romance with a man named Martin Lewis, then discovers that Martin Lewis doesn’t exist. A story that picks up where GoodFellas left off.
