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.

A young man returns home from the army and gets a surprising offer from his emotionally distant father: Join the family business and help mom & pop pull off a string of daring cross-country heists. No one expects the betrayals coming.

How Washington society got scammed by one of its own.

The inside story of a brutally botched undercover operation.

A jailhouse interview with Steve Washak, who made millions selling “natural male enhancement” pills.

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.