Davon Mayer was a smalltime dealer in west Baltimore who made an illicit deal with local police. Then they turned on him.

Meet the inspiration for Barbara Loden’s Wanda.

Emma Perrier was deceived by an older man on the internet—and then she found love with the model whose photographs he had stolen.

The rise and fall of the “most far-flung, most organized, and most brazen example of homosexual extortion in the nation’s history.”

On the new art of interrogation.

Eight calls to 911. Three visits by five police officers. One woman’s senseless death.

Five murders. Two confessions. A mysterious envelope.

An Oklahoma rehab center puts defendants to grueling, dangerous work in a chicken processing plant. They receive neither pay nor treatment for their addictions.

Tim Piazza fought for his life for 12 hours before his Beta Theta Pi brothers called 911. By then, it was too late.

The short friendship of Kody Robertson and Michelle Vo.

Guardians can sell the assets and control the lives of senior citizens without their consent—and reap a profit from it.

In 1921, a teenager died alone in Kentucky and was buried without a name. A century later, a team of sleuths set out to find his identity.

What happens after a defendant is found not guilty by reason of insanity? Often the answer is involuntary confinement in a state psychiatric hospital—with no end in sight.

The material powers solar panels and microchips. In Alabama, two thieves cashed in.

The intertwined destinies of Siti Aisyah, a 25-year-old devout Muslim villager turned prostitute and eventual assassin, and Kim Jong-nam, who was raised as the heir to the North Korean dictatorship and died in a Malaysian airport.

It turns out “Madame Giselle” wasn’t any of these things, couldn’t make her Chevy Chase, Maryland, neighbors rich, and may have been at the center of a massive scandal in Colombia.

“When he’s judged I’m judged.”

The story of a Pacific Palisades con man named Jeffrey Lash.

Inside the Tacoma Northwest Detention Center, “an opaque system that literally disappears people” accused of immigrating illegally.

Police have dragged the lake. They’ve dug up property. They’ve brought in dogs. But after twenty years, they still can’t find the bodies of the four missing seniors in Muskoka.

In El Salvador, more and more young women are choosing—or being forced into—gang life.

A case in Baltimore — in which two men were convicted of the same murder and cleared by DNA 20 years later — shows how far prosecutors will go to preserve a conviction.

Christian Longo brutally murdered his familyand then posed in Mexico as a New York Times reporter named Michael Finkel. From death row, Longo asked the real Finkel to attend his execution.