How a Canadian used a Mohawk reservation’s lakes to smuggle tons of marijuana to stash houses in Brooklyn and Staten Island, resulting in nearly a billion in profits, which he laundered through the Sinaloa Cartel.

On the court system’s excessive fines.

The case of Brett Kimberlin.

“They thought they were going to change the world,” he says of the 1964 Mississippi Summer Project volunteers. “They didn’t expect that white folks would be so vicious.”

How a Chinese national, with the help of a suspected spy, disappeared with laptops and hard drives that may have contained sensitive information from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.

How seven Italian scientists came to be convicted of manslaughter following a catastrophic quake.

When adults like Billy Smolinski go missing, it’s hard to get the authorities involved.

On the comedian’s relationship with his son and how it changed the course of The Cosby Show.

A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

In exchange for his surrender, the top Colombian drug lord was allowed to build his own jail, complete with a disco, jacuzzi, and waterfall. Now 23 years later, it’s a home for the elderly.

Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.

In 1984, Jacqui met Bob Lambert at an animal-rights protest. They fell in love, had a son. Then Bob disappeared. It would take 25 years for Jacqui to learn that he had been working undercover.

On Cops, cop movies and Ferguson.

A profile of the Megaupload founder, who has started a political party in New Zealand as the U.S. continues to fight for his extradition.

Two days in crisis.

“What transpired in the streets appeared to be a kind of municipal version of shock and awe.”

This is what happens when you concoct game-fixing allegations against a Major League pitcher because of a perceived slight on Facebook.

An experiment in public defense.

Meet Adam.

The story of a naïve fisherman, a boat headed for Spain and 1.5 tons of cocaine.

Sandra Bridewell, a Dallas socialite, and the people around her who keep dying.

On the private, for-profit probation industry.

“I write this with a baseball bat by the bed.”

Louis Scarcella was a star New York City detective in the ’80s and ’90s, cracking cases no one else could. Now it appears that many of the people he put away were innocent, forced into false confessions and convicted with testimony from flimsy witnesses. Scarcella maintains that he did nothing wrong, despite evidence against him much stronger than in many of his cases.

In 2004, Cameron Todd Willingham was executed for starting a fire that killed his three daughters. The case hinged on the testimony of a jailhouse informant named Johnny E. Webb. Today, Webb says he lied.