What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.

How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.

Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.

Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.

The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”

A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder.

The gun-touting couple from St. Louis care more about private property than anyone realized.

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

13 women, a months-long trial, and a jury’s choice.

Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.

Why did two wealthy Sri Lankan brothers become suicide bombers?

In the past dozen years, state and local judges have repeatedly escaped public accountability for misdeeds that have victimized thousands. Nine of 10 kept their jobs, a Reuters investigation found – including an Alabama judge who unlawfully jailed hundreds of poor people, many of them Black, over traffic fines.

Sean Quinn was once a billionaire folk hero, but then things turned very dark in the borderlands.

Revisiting Edna Buchanan, America’s greatest police reporter.

In 1980, a bankrupt gambler came up with a plan to get his money back. He built an incredibly complex bomb, one that was impossible to defuse and that only he knew how to move, and snuck it into a Lake Tahoe casino with an extortion note demanding $3 million. Part of the plan worked. Part of it did not.

The story of ‘Kai the hatchet-wielding hitchhiker.’

The writer’s family saw an unmarked NYPD cruiser hit a Black teenager. He tried to find out how it happened, and instead found all of the ways the NYPD is shielded from accountability.

A prostitution and sex trafficking ring operated on the outskirts of a U.S. Navy base in Bahrain and may have involved 15% of the sailors stationed there.

When a spring breaker goes missing, a seasoned investigator uncovers devil worship and a sinister cult at the heart of the drug trade.

In an Arkansas jail with one of the America’s largest coronavirus outbreaks, prison terms become death sentences.

“Peril is generational for black people in America—and incarceration is our current mechanism for ensuring that the peril continues.”