Years after the era of the “superpredator,” Taurus Buchanan is still paying for a crime of his youth.

He was arrested for pushing his three grandsons so hard on a Grand Canyon hike that rangers feared for their lives. Their account of the summer they spent with their youthful grandpa would include an uncanny understanding of marijuana strains and a stopover in Jamaica.

Who killed Jean Hope in 1970?

The ‘repo men’ of the high seas.

A car race goes tragically wrong.

She was a young plutonium worker whose Honda Civic Hatchback ran off the road and smashed into the wall of a concrete culvert. In her trunk were manila folders full of documents, which immediately went missing.

How PCC, once an inmate soccer team and now Brazil’s most notorious prison gang, coordinated seven days of riots throughout São Paulo using mobile phones.

Inside “a surreal world of pseudo-scientific methods and jargon, traumatizing psychodramas and nude cuddling with counselors.”

The bribery scandal, involving tests given for coveted government jobs and medical school admissions, began implicating high-ranking officials. Then people started turning up dead.

He’s been accused of fraud, sexual assault, and using drugs. But for Chris Bathum, who doesn’t have prior experience treating people struggling with addiction, opening several facilities promising to do just that has been surprisingly easy—and lucrative.

How agents took down Mexico’s most vicious drug cartel and, in the process, gave El Chapo the opportunity to create an empire.

The DEA warns that drugs are funding terror. But is the agency stopping threats or staging them?

An investigative reporter goes undercover at a dealership to learn the tricks of the trade, of which there are many.

The Straters’ lives have been devastated by relentless cyberattacks. And there’s nothing they can do about it.

Vengeance, abuse, and the strange double standards of death penalty politics.

We know that certain programs can help prevent gun deaths among black men. No one in Washington seems to care.

On the response to the Paris attacks.

In a remote corner of Romania, neighbors kill each other over tiny strips of land.

The story of Jeffrey Fowle, an Ohio man who tried to smuggle a Bible into North Korea.

Paul Phua rose from a Borneo numbers runner to being the biggest bookmaker in the world. Then he found poker.

A reckless billion-dollar industry that occasionally kills.

The ongoing question of forgiveness in Charleston, where Dylann Roof opened fire in a church on June 17th.

In 1993 a black teenager in London was randomly stabbed to death by a gang of white youths. Twenty years later, they would be at the center of the trial of the decade.

They were the New York crew that once pulled off the Lufthansa heist, one of the biggest thefts in American history and the basis for Goodfellas. Nearly 40 years later, most are dead. The survivors are old, broke, and snitching.

How Raj Rajaratnam and a McKinsey chairman made millions off a maid.