Vera Pratt moved to the island at age 70 hoping to find many years of happiness. Then she met “Psychic Angela” and her future got a whole lot more complicated.
In just a few years, a Michigan woman took in millions of dollars, faking adoptions and ruining families’ lives along the way.
In late 2018, Pittsburgh’s Jewish community was mourning the deadliest antisemitic attack in U.S. history. Then a stranger and his family landed in their midst.
The system for testing pharmaceuticals in the US relies on contractors adhering to strict guidelines. But one of them chose profits over protocols.
Church-loving surf instructor Matthew Taylor Coleman fell into online conspiracy theories, then allegedly admitted to killing his kids to save the world. How did no one see it coming?
393 Powell Street was a peaceful home until residents started dying in brutal, mysterious ways.
The Christian organization Teen Challenge, made up of more than a thousand centers, claims to reform troubled teens. But is its discipline more like abuse?
In 1992, thousands of furious, drunken cops descended on City Hall—and changed New York history.
In November 1985, a woman who appeared to be a homeless drifter staked out the offices of 80-year-old banker Nicholas Deak, waited until he returned from lunch, then executed Deak and his secretary. As police wrestled her to the floor, she said “Don’t hurt me. He told me I could carry the gun.”
“You have to ask for food. You have to ask to go use the bathroom. … [Kelly] is a master at mind control. … He is a puppet master.”
James Allen is serving three life sentences for murder. No one ever said he killed anyone.
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.
A shoot-out at a Big Bend ranch captured the nation’s attention: first as an alleged ambush by undocumented migrants, then as a fear-mongering hoax. The real story is much more mysterious.
Three years ago, college football was rocked by a domestic violence scandal that ended with Ohio State firing assistant coach Zach Smith and suspending head coach Urban Meyer. Both men have since reinvented their images and careers. But what about Courtney Smith, the woman who said she had been abused for years by Smith while he coached at Ohio State? This is her story.
When a child vanished in Nova Scotia, online sleuths got involved in the search. Then they lost their way.
Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio was once a regular Miami kid. Now he’s in a DC jail.
Bill Landreth was one of the whiz kids, poking around Pentagon servers with the friends he had never met. But one of them was an FBI informant.
The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say.
They thought that they’d found the perfect New York apartment. They weren’t alone.
Seeking justice with the Trans Doe Task Force.
The Charleston-based evangelicals had much in common: guns, God, Trump. What went wrong, only one of them could say.
A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.
When a rash of sensational museum robberies stunned Europe, police zeroed in on a fearsome crime family—and a flashy new generation of young outlaws.
A broke music promoter and his detoxing son hatch a plan to solve all their problems. With Nas. On New Year’s Eve. In Angola.
A man is presumed murdered. In this town of 12, everyone is a possible suspect.
