The President’s former lawyer, and the fall guy in his web of misconduct, looks like a victim as well as a perpetrator.

A profile of Edna Buchanan, a Pulitzer Prize-winning crime reporter for the Miami Herald during its heyday.

The untold story of Alek Minassian, a year after the deadliest mass murder in Toronto history

In three decades of advocating for prison abolition, the activist and scholar has helped transform how people think about criminal justice.

How pop-up tax preparers make billions off the poor.

Inside Nxivm.

On the lost-children stories of Australia.

How Craig Carton, a morning host on WFAN, ended up running a Ponzi scheme.

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.

The parents indicted in the college-admissions scandal were responding to a changing America, with rage at being robbed of what they believed was rightfully theirs.

How the border patrol chases have spun out of control, with deadly consequence.

John Franzese Jr. helped send his father, notorious Colombo family mobster Sonny Franzese, to prison. Then he turned up in Indianapolis.

A car crash in Kentucky left a 13-year-old girl dead. A Sudanese refugee was charged with her killing. The story of the trial that followed.

When authorities fail families, Lissa Yellowbird-Chase steps in.

An investigator set out to discover the source of one scammy robocall. Turns out, his target made them by the millions.

After all these years, it’s still there, in the back of her mind, lurking. No matter how good things are going, it never quite goes away, this feeling that she should have died that day. And her brush with death is the first thing that strangers tend to notice about her, like a limp or a disfigurement. Once they find out where she went to high school, that’s all they want to talk about.

Donald Cline must have thought no one would ever know. Then DNA testing came along.

Looking for answers after an ayahuasca murder in Peru.

The appearance of an ultra-rare Boba Fett with the missile rocks the insular world of Star Wars toy collectors.

It started with black market rations and ended with “the wedding of the century.”

While driving through a dangerous curve in East Texas, James Fulton crossed into oncoming traffic and killed a young woman. The cops said the crash was an accident. But the Smith County DA saw it differently.

How order collapsed in an American city.

In El Salvador, Jucuapa is home to dozens of small factories that churn out what some locals call the “wooden pajamas.”

George von Bothmer reported a violent home invasion by two men wielding guns and shouting death threats. Things only got weirder from there.

“In 1998, I helped convict two men of murder. I’ve regretted it ever since.”