First they found his server, then they found his name. But if they couldn’t catch him with his laptop open, the whole thing would fall apart.

The events leading up to the botched execution of Clayton Lockett.

A faked marriage between undercover agents leads to the arrest of a dozen drug dealers.

A CD plant employee ushered in the modern era of music piracy by teaming up with a shadowy “Scene” crew on IRC chat.

The sheriff of Putnam County, Georgia, finally meets a case he can’t solve.

He went from a viral pop hit to an arrest for conspiracy to murder charges in just under six months. Was Bobby Shmurda “too real” for his label?

Harsh sentences have given us an aging prison population, and all the medical problems that come with age are beginning to choke the system.

John Beale was an exemplary employee at the Environmental Protection Agency. He also led a double life, though not the rumored one at the CIA his colleagues whispered about.

A steep discount on pharmaceutical drugs leads to a mass-murder case.

Arthur Mondella took over his family’s maraschino cherry business reluctantly. But once he had it, he started a second enterprise. Behind an unmarked roll-down gate, behind some of his prized luxury cars, behind a pair of closet doors, behind a set of button-controlled shelves, behind a fake wall and down a ladder in a hole in the floor, Mondella built a 2,500-square-foot marijuana factory. When the police finally found it, he shot himself.

A man felt wronged by his ex-girlfriend, a video game designer. So he published a 9,425-word online screed with “each component designed to be as damaging to [her] as possible.” It sparked the online fire known as “Gamergate.”

An essay on Floyd Mayweather Jr. as both.

The author visits City of Refuge in Pahokee, Florida, a community of more than 100 registered sex offenders.

How a 24-year-old nurse discovered Vegas, high-stakes gambling, and serial bank robbery.

How Ross Ulbricht went from idealistic used-book seller to murderous drug kingpin.

In 1965, Wheat was sentenced to death for armed robbery and murder. When his sentence was commuted, he decided to devote the rest of his life to helping people.

Doc was a medical student in his 40s, but he spent his nights with the teenagers who hung around his San Antonion apartment complex, buying them drugs and booze. The first time he asked one of them to ritualistically kill him, they laughed it off. He would ask again.

The murder of a 34-year-old by a wig-wearing figure traces back to meth, an FBI sting and a former municipal judge who once sent a live copperhead snake to a foe through the U.S. mail.

The author discovers devastating secrets while going through her late father’s belongings.

The double life of Aaron Hernandez.

The woman that the mixed martial arts star beat nearly to death tells her side of the story.

In 1965, a mother was charged with killing her 5-year-old son and 4-year-old daughter in Queens. Fifty years later, it still isn’t clear if she did it.

Doug Dodd was a drug kingpin in high school. And now, like the narrator of a Scorcese film, he wants to tell his own story.

Darren Sharper was once an NFL star. He was also a serial rapist, one who law enforcement failed to stop.