Monaco’s richest woman was shot in ambush outside a hospital. Her heirs stand to inherit over a billion dollars each.

An epilogue to Serpico.

“You probably don’t believe me, but I didn’t kill Harry.”

The aftermath of a sudden death.

The bungled theft of a $6 million violin.

Jamie Smith said he was a co-founder of Blackwater and a former CIA officer. He appeared on cable news as a counterterrorism expert and he received millions in goverment contracts to train personnel. The money was real. The resume wasn’t.

Woodward and Bernstein’s other anonymous sources.

How a doctor and an S.A.C. trader got entangled in a financial scandal.

Buddy Cianci, former Providence mayor and convicted felon, is running for the city’s top office. Again.

Why a decades-long string of murders near the Mexican border has gone unsolved.

Their paranoid existence more than two years after George killed Trayvon Martin.

Nearly 70 years after Bugsy Siegel’s unsolved murder in Beverly Hills, a family finally comes forward: they know who did it.

Under the cover of curing addicts, they beat and brainwashed their charges in basements across California. When a cult deprogrammer crossed them, he found a rattlesnake in his mailbox.

The murder of a West Virginia teenager by her two best friends.

Sixteen-year-old Kalief Browder was accused of taking a backpack. He spent the next three years on Rikers Island, without trial.

He’s spent decades dodging the law. He’s escaped from jail twice by helicopter. He’s given millions to the poor. The story of how Vassilis Paleokostas, Greece’s most wanted man, became a folk hero.

On former CIA agent John T. Downey, who spent more than 20 years in China as the longest held American captive of war.

Jeff Walton is a 69-year-old plumber with a wife and 35-year-old son. It turns out he’s also Ronald Stan, a Canadian man who faked his own death in 1977.

The fallout from a 1987 Wisconsin manhunt.

An investigation into who knew what, and when.

The profile of a 34-year-old woman named Charity Johnson who tricked people all over the country into believing she was still in high school.

Maintaining order behind bars.

The debate over who’s responsible when a child kills.

On the president’s campaign to crack down on campus rape.