Five of the sixteen women speak.

Spending time with the residents of K6G, the only gay wing in the entire American penal system.

How bad lawyering and an unforgiving law cost condemned men their last appeal.

During the financial crisis, Sal Pane ran a multimillion-dollar mortgage scam. A few years later, with the help of some high-profile media appearances and a dead man's resume, he won the government contract to clean up Ebola in New York.

“‘Have you ever killed anybody?’”

An investigation into sexual abuse in youth sports, with a focus on USA Swimming.

A jury recommends life in prison; the judged orders a death sentence.

The central witness in “one of the biggest cases of white-collar crime in American history” speaks out.

Alfred Dellentash Jr. chartered the Rolling Stones in private jets while smuggling planeloads of Pablo Escobar’s drugs on the side.

“‘Why does my dad have duct tape by his pillow?’”

Fifty years later, the men who stole priceless gems from the Museum of Natural History recall the crime.

George Spahn and his California ranch, before and after the Manson family showed up.

The strange case of Kip Litton, road race fraud.

A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.

The thin moral line between collecting and stealing plants.

To save himself, a basketball recruit testified against his mother.

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The mystery of a death in Dallas.

In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.

What do you do when you think a family member is a murderer? Step one: stop eating her food.

The story of Frank Bourassa, the world’s most prolific counterfeiter.

Margaret Keane’s husband stole credit for her iconic paintings, basking in fame and fortune that should have been hers for years. Then she told a reporter the truth.

Magicians, mafiosos, a missing painting and the heist of a lifetime.

Those who survived tell the story of twenty three ISIS hostages’ shared months of brutal captivity before some were ransomed and some executed.

Kelli Stapleton, whose teenage daughter was autistic and prone to violent rages, had come to fear for her life. So she made a decision that perhaps only she could justify.