What links an eccentric Oxford classics don, billionaire US evangelicals, and a tiny, missing fragment of an ancient manuscript?

Rio de Janeiro drug gangs are embracing evangelical Christianity.

When a writer’s husband became violent, her career threatened to vanish along with her safety.

A year of reporting reveals a culture of incest, rape, and abuse.

Nicola Gobbo defended Melbourne’s most notorious criminals at the height of a 
gangland war. They didn’t know she had a secret.

A woman told police she was raped by three New York Mets. They were never charged.

How far can abused women go to protect themselves?

How much would you pay to remove a curse on your family?

An investigation into how the Church moves its money.

How the state’s “restitution program” forces poor people to work off small debts.

When a ring of thieves steals a poet’s beloved dog, one of the world’s most famous women must break her long domestic oppression and discover herself in the process.

An investigation into how police departments can fail to solve rape cases but still get credit.

The disgraced movie mogul finally faces his day in court. But as his accusers know best, there might not be a Hollywood ending.

Brenda thought she and Ricky would be together forever, until he left her. Kendra thought she and Ricky would be together forever. Then Brenda took matters into her own hands. Inside the case of jealousy, spying, and murder that shook Uptown Dallas.

Jared Johns found out too late that swapping messages with the pretty girl from a dating site would mean serious trouble. If only he had known who she really was.

Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He’s about to get out of prison.

Antonio Carrion was headed for the NFL when the voices started and he drifted away. Then his estranged mother finished her time for robbery and saved him from a system that’s unkind to the mentally ill.

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her?

They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster."

The dark world of online murder markets.

How a war over a domain name ended in a bloody shootout.

How history forgot Felipe and Vivián Espinosa, two of the American West’s most brutal killers—and the complicated story behind their murderous rampage.

Tonya Crowder still dreams that she and her fiance, Roosevelt Myles—who’s been in prison for decades fighting what he says is a wrongful conviction—will one day build a life together somewhere “nice, quiet, and simple.”

Paul Skalnik has a decades-long criminal record and may be one of the most prolific jailhouse informants in U.S. history. The state of Florida is planning to execute a man based largely on his word.

How a bunch of Canadian hipsters wound up smuggling cocaine (and getting caught).