How an honors student became a hired killer.

On Singapore’s attempt to create a more harmonious society using mass surveillance and data analysis.

The story of imprisoned boxer James Scott, who contended for the light heavyweight title by staging fights inside Rahway prison.

CeCe McDonald, a homeless trans teen in Minneapolis, was charged with murder for defending herself. Then she became a folk hero.

Accused of being part of a terror cell at age 12, Gitmo’s youngest prisoner recounts his life

On the cult founder, business magnate, pseudonymous internationally shown artist and ferry owner Yoo Byung-eun, who was found dead in the brush amidst empty liquor bottles.

On the “black widow” of Keller, Texas.

On Marie-Madeline Marguerite, a 1600s French serial killer.

A flamboyant player, a charismatic coach, and a sex predator.

The preacher ran a prostitution ring out of his halfway house. The teenager posed as his nephew and later claimed he feared for his own life. Only one man they drove into the woods would survive.

An investigation into how Rikers Island guards treat the roughly 4,000 inmates who are mentally ill.

In the late 1960s, a German named Günther Hauck disappeared in Brazil. When he emerged, he was calling himself Tatunca Nara and claimed to be the chief of the Ugha Mongulala, an previously unknown Indian tribe. Since then he has lived in the Amazon, his legend growing. Jacques Cousteau hired him as a guide. An Indiana Jones movie was based on his stories. And three people who made pilgrimages to see him never came home.

How divisions between Nigeria’s Muslim North and Christian South resulted in the birth of terror’s most ruthless movement.

How Javaris Crittenton went from basketball phenom to standing trial on a murder charge.

The survivors of a mass shooting, 20 years later.

How the feds went after Thick Neck, Guilty, Stomper, Gunner, Lucky, Menace, and the rest of the Amernian mob in Los Angeles.

The life and times of James McClintock, the man behind the famed H.L. Hunley who also may or may not have faked his own death.

He was an early video streaming startup founder who threw parties where celebrities like Bryan Singer had sex with teenage boys. Then, he came to believe that music mogul David Geffen was trying to kill him.

A sociologist learns techniques for evading the authorities.

The gangs of Brooklyn’s Brownsville, an area with the higest concentration of public housing in America.

Inside the collapse of TelexFree, an alleged $1 billion pyramid scheme that duped investors worldwide.

How America is trying to fight terrorism in Africa without doing any of the actual fighting.

“The case of Lisl Auman, who first wrote me from prison three years ago, is so rotten and wrong and shameful that I feel dirty just for knowing about it, and so should you.”

How two boys, 10 and 11, were sentenced to years in a detention facility for a crime they didn’t get a chance to commit.

How Leo Sharp got busted.