A teenager in a dreary suburb of Paris live-streams her own suicide—and acquires a morbid kind of digital celebrity.

Bobby Hadid joined the NYPD after 9/11, to protect his new country. But when he questioned the force’s tactics, his life began to erode.

The story of the “Barefoot Bandit,” a teenage fugitive on the run.

By choice, for less than $2 an hour, the female inmate firefighters of California work their bodies to the breaking point. Sometimes they even risk their lives.

The story of September 26, 2014, the day 43 Mexican students went missing.

Joe Arpaio is tough on prisoners and undocumented immigrants. What about crime?

The world’s foremost Sherlock Holmes expert found dead in a locked room, leaving no note.

Did Michell Carter’s texts cause Conrad Roy to kill himself?

What the Toronto Police found was even worse than they’d expected.

An investigation into the deadly use of Tasers by police.

Dominick Dunne’s account of the trial of his daughter’s murderer.

A reporter on her way out of India probes a case of a woman beaten to death by her husband in public.

A young, pregnant woman named Laci Peterson disappears, her husband begins to act strangely, and one of the largest media circuses in history descends on the sleepy community of Modesto, CA.

The answer may lie with the country’s powerful security agencies.

Kids say it’s fun to take cars. They brag to each other about how many they’ve stolen and the sleekest models they’ve sped away in. They say they are bored and that it’s easy, sharing videos of themselves driving at 120 miles per hour. They smile with key fobs, offering rides on Facebook. But all of the biggest car thieves had something to run from.

On June 4, 1989, the bodies of Jo, Michelle, and Christe were found floating in Tampa Bay. This is the story of the murders, their aftermath, and the handful of people who kept faith amid the unthinkable.

Two decades later, a traffic stop on a country road is still teaching police officers about deadly force – and the cost of hesitation. Part 1 of “The Trigger and the Choice,” a 3-part series.

“These documents show how Palantir applies Silicon Valley’s playbook to domestic law enforcement. New users are welcomed with discounted hardware and federal grants, sharing their own data in return for access to others’. When enough jurisdictions join Palantir’s interconnected web of police departments, government agencies, and databases, the resulting data trove resembles a pay-to-access social network—a Facebook of crime that’s both invisible and largely unaccountable to the citizens whose behavior it tracks.”

ShyShy Pate has been missing for 19 years, but you’ve probably never heard of her.

Nearly all the world’s fake products come from China. America’s oldest private detective agency is on the case.

By the time Noura Jackson’s conviction was overturned, she had spent nine years in prison. This type of prosecutorial error is almost never punished.

The fake cops of Santa Monica.

A year in the life of Gwen Woods, after her son was killed by police.

How police brought down a tech-savvy prostitution network in Seattle.