James Ellroy Finally Has Happiness in His Sights
What happens when America’s darkest crime writer sees the light?
Crime
Lawless
At least one in three Alaska villages has no local law enforcement. Sexual abuse runs rampant, public safety resources are scarce, and Gov. Mike Dunleavy wants to cut the budget.
Who Killed the Prime Minister?
Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.
Joe Exotic
A dark journey Into the world of a man gone wild.
Adventures in the Ransom Trade
On the revolutionaries, highly-paid negotiators, former spies, foreign businessmen and their families, who all played roles in the massive Colombian kidnap and ransom industry during its 1990s heyday.
Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter to Be Sick, Gypsy Wanted Her Mom Murdered
Dee Dee Blancharde was a model parent: a tireless single mom taking care of her gravely ill child. But after Dee Dee was killed, it turned out her daughter Gypsy had never been sick at all.
Blow Up: How Half a Tonne of Cocaine Transformed the Life of an Island
What happens when a great deal of cocaine suddenly washes up on the shores of a very small island.
My Cousin Was My Hero. Until the Day He Tried to Kill Me.
A confrontation with masculinity gone awry.
Drugs, Guns and Politics Collided in the Small Town of Port Richey. Two Mayors Went to Jail.
A very Florida investigation.
‘Either They Kill Us or We Kill Them’
Inside the struggle to survive in a tiny Honduran neighborhood surrounded by competing gangs.
The Rise and Fall of Marty Tirrell
An Iowa sports radio pioneer turns scammer.
The Case of the Stolen Ruby Slippers
How a big crime in a small town produced a whodunit as gripping and colorful as “The Wizard of Oz” itself.
'If You Want to Kill Someone, We Are the Right Guys'
In a small Minnesota town, an IT technician found his way to the darkest corner of the web. Then he made a deadly plan.
How Private Equity Is Turning Public Prisons Into Big Profits
Food. Phone calls. Medical care. Transport. Even in public prisons, “piecemeal privatization” is transforming incarceration in America.
The Heart Still Stands
Love, purpose, and prison on the Dakota Prairie.
All That Glitters
Unequal pay, harassment, or worse at the nation’s largest jewelry retailer.
Michael Cohen’s Last Days of Freedom
The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.
Covering the Cops
A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.
The Man Behind the Yonge Street Van Attack
The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history
Is Prison Necessary? Ruth Wilson Gilmore Might Change Your Mind
In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.
Secrets of the Tax-Prep Business
How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.
The ‘Sex Cult’ That Preached Empowerment
Inside Nxivm.
Leave No Trace
On the lost-children stories of Australia.
The Rise and Fall of a New York Shock Jock
How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.
The Body Pullers of Syria
Thousands of bodies are buried in shallow graves around Raqqa, Syria. One group is using Facebook and Google Earth to identify human remains and rebury them where they belong.
