How a retired Swiss banker ended up behind bars in Thailand for uncovering a scheme that included the Malaysian prime minister and billions of in laundered money that was spent on everything from parties with Paris Hilton to backing for The Wolf of Wall Street.
How a sexual assault case in Idaho involving refugee children morphed into an anti-refugee frenzy.
The stolen youth of Lorenzo Montoya.
On the mysterious death of a high school basketball star in Dallas.
He drives a Toyota. He eats fro-yo. He takes care of two dozen feral cats.
Editor’s note, 7/27/16: Hinckley has won his freedom and will live full-time with his mother.
The private grief of Samaria Rice, twenty months after her son Tamir was killed.
“Don’t forget. You see all these protests. That’s good. You see this whole movement. That’s good. You see all these different people with all these different agendas. You see celebrities making speeches. But underneath it all there’s somebody like me with a dead son.”
Sharon Lopatka had found many identities on Usenet: VHS interior decoration pitch-woman, author of love spells, and pornographic film scammer. Her final posts concerned wanting to find someone to torture her to death.
In the late 1990s, a serial killer found his victims in Yosemite National Park.
A murder case in Los Angeles, cold since the late ’80s, heats up thanks to breakthroughs in forensic science and leads detectives to “one of the unlikeliest murder suspects in the city’s history.”
Inside the grand jury proceedings.
The search for the world’s most elusive skyjacker.
An interview with Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown.
The vans, operated by for-profit companies, carry tens of thousands of people every year. They lack beds, toilets, and medical services. More than a dozen women have alleged they were sexually assaulted by guards while being transported; since 2012, at least four people have died.
Maurice Spagnoletti was hired to clean up one of the island’s largest banks. He found fraud, waste, and executives performing Santeria rituals in the conference room. Then he was killed on his way home.
Tens of thousands of people every year are sent to jail based on the results of a $2 roadside drug test. Widespread evidence shows that these tests routinely produce false positives. Why are police departments and prosecutors still using them?
At 33, Wendy Brown stole her daughter’s name, grabbed a pair of pom-poms, and went back to high school. Then she went to jail.
Ardelia Ali was raped in 1995. Twenty years later, her attacker was convicted.
“I grew up idolizing my brother. Then he killed a man.”
A few months after working at Ground Zero, Kurt Sonnenfeld became a suspect in the mysterious and high-profile death of his wife. He got off, barely, and started a new life in South America. But when the U.S. tried to bring him back to face charges, Sonnenfeld went to the local media. The Feds didn’t want him for murder, he said. They wanted to put him away because of what he knew about 9/11.
What happened when a plane full of marijuana crashed in Yosemite Park.
A Montana sheriff and a manhunt in the mountains.
“Private prisons are shrouded in secrecy. I took a job as a guard to get inside—then things got crazy.”
Cars driving themselves into walls. Hospitals frozen. Elevators jammed. A scenario that could happen based on what already has.
Who was Omar Mateen?
An American reporter takes on the Yakuza.
