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).

To read the transcript of Erin Hunter’s trial, which runs all of 81 pages and can be digested in half an hour, is to encounter a disregard for human dignity instrumental in producing the most sprawling system of incarceration in the world.

Match Group, which owns most major online dating services, screens for sexual predators on Match—but not on Tinder, OkCupid or Plenty of Fish. A spokesperson said, “There are definitely registered sex offenders on our free products.”

A group of volunteers is helping incarcerated people negotiate a system that is all but broken.

How a Sacramento Kings executive stole more than $13 million from the team—and almost got away with it.

How two interior decorators took the fall for the Cali Cartel.

Florida lawmakers agreed the state’s old drug sentencing laws went too far. But that means nothing to people serving time.

Gun violence, high school football and what coaches are doing to keep their players safe

Jerold Haas was on the brink of blockchain riches. Then his body was found in the woods of southern Ohio.

Whenever the black dress came out, Jessica Weisman’s mother knew she was “going after the Jewish people again.”

With its cheap geothermal energy and low crime rate, Iceland has become the world’s leading miner of digital currency. Then the crypto-crooks showed up.

The many lives of imposter Frédéric Bourdin.

When a longtime resident started stealing her neighbors’ Amazon packages, she entered a vortex of smart cameras, Nextdoor rants, and cellphone surveillance.

A modern-day treasure hunt.

While searching for the person who grifted me in Chicago, I discovered just how easy it is for users of the short-term rental platform to get exploited.

A charming assistant funeral home director named Bernie Tiede murders a wealthy widow, keeps her in a freezer for months, finally gets caught, and still has the town's sympathy as his case goes to trial. The story that became Richard Linklater's Bernie.