The life of one of America’s bloodiest hitmen.

How a scandal started with a poor housemaid and ended up taking down the most powerful woman in Africa

Having fallen on hard times, a former football star and the pride of his small town decides to rob the local bank. His weapons of choice: Craigslist, bear mace, and an inner tube.

Eric Schneiderman faces a #MeToo reckoning of his own.

It all started with an unclaimed lottery ticket worth millions, soon revealing a string of unlikely winners that pointed to an inside job. But who had rigged the lottery? And how?

Why an expert in counterterrorism became a beat cop.

How a senseless double murder in Florida exposed the rise of an organized fascist youth movement in the United States.

All Artur Samarin wanted to be was a normal American teenager. So that’s what he became.

The inside story of the first homicide in America’s most secure prison.

Riding along with the cycling lawyer who’s trying to change that.

A new historical inquiry into the murder of Elwood Higginbotham offers a chance to confront the past.

He’d sold his company, chartered a yacht, and set off with his model girlfriend to see the world. Finally, it seemed, Chris Smith was living the life he’d always wanted. But back home there was trouble: missing money, unraveling secrets, and a sudden question. Where the hell was Chris Smith, really?

An investigation into a social media-fueled gang war in Detroit.

The Red Zone is part pharmacy, part killing field and part music studio where gang members peddled drugs, fought rivals and shot rap videos on street corners.

Jimmy Smith-Kramer, a basketball legend on the Quinault Nation reservation, was 20 when he was mowed down by a white man in a pickup truck. The decision not to charge a hate crime, and recent talk of a plea deal, has re-opened ancient wounds.

An investigation into how the NYPD responds to sexual assault cases.

The stories of 35 women who were assaulted by Bill Cosby.

Houston was plagued by a series of brutal armored car robberies that bewildered FBI agents for nearly two years. To finally bring down the unassuming mastermind behind it all, the agents had to stage an elaborate trap—and catch him in the act.

From 1976 to 1986, one of the most violent serial criminals in American history terrorized communities throughout California. He was little known, never caught, and might still be out there. The author, along with several others, couldn’t stop working on the case.

“As an added bonus, she paid for everything.”

What happens when U.S. border patrol kills—in Mexico?

One mysterious death, then another, and another — all in the same house. The first two written off as a tragic coincidence, until the third shattered doubts.

After an 11-year-old Navajo girl was kidnapped, her family and friends sprang into action to find her. Why did it take so long for law enforcement to join them?

A look at the rapper’s decade-plus ordeal.

How the killing of a 20-year-old woman upended a nation’s sense of itself.

First the red bees arrived. Then a Red Hook cherry factory’s true purpose came to light.