How did a mother of 10 and a Plano cop wind up pushing pills in the Park Cities?

Renée Bach went to Uganda to save children—but many in her care died. Was she responsible?

A fatal overdose, a stunning coincidence, and a mother’s long quest to heal.

How a fearsome, fast-talking union boss became a leading figure in cannabis legalization while shaking down the very people he was supposed to be helping.

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

Jane de Oliveira set out to protect the world’s largest rain forest from the corporate interests that are burning it to the ground. Then the armed men showed up.

An Eastern Airlines shuttle to Boston 50 years ago started out routine. It ended up changing how America flies.

He was jailed for killing her daughter. Then she feared the police had the wrong man.

In 1978, an eighth grader killed his teacher. After 20 months in a psychiatric facility, he was freed. His classmates still wonder: What really happened?

When Jake Millison went missing, his family said he’d skipped town. But his friends refused to let him simply disappear.

On the end of Harvey Weinstein.

The arson case that may have led Texas to execute an innocent man.

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

A telekinetic teenager became a convicted killer. Can a group of strangers prove that Christina Boyer is really a victim of injustice?

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

“You’re preying on someone’s hopes, you’re preying on someone’s dreams. You’re preying on a particularly vulnerable population who all have artistic sensibilities.”

Menhaz Zaman was always a good boy: obedient, respectful and studious. Or that’s what everyone thought, until one night last summer, when he confessed to slaughtering his entire family with a crowbar

The rise and fall of a Bitcoin mining scheme that was “too big to fail.”

Inside a literary Ponzi scheme.

They were an all-star crew. They cooked up the perfect plan. And when they pulled off the caper of the century, it made them more than a fortune—it made them folk heroes.

Tens of thousands of California’s poorest tenants have endured dangerous conditions in housing run by a single company: PAMA Management.

Increasingly, men accused of MeToo misconduct are suing their accusers for defamation.

There has never been a better time to commit financial crimes.

What does it take to navigate the dark web, buy some Ransomware, and extort your victims? The writer tries it for himself.