How a member of a breakaway Mormon sect teamed up with a Lambo-driving, hard-partying tycoon to bilk the government for hundreds of millions of dollars.

Gold mined in the jungles of Peru brought riches to three friends in Miami—but it also carried ruin.

Outrageous lies destroyed Guy Babcock’s online reputation. When he went hunting for their source, what he discovered was worse than he could have imagined.

Texas juries send people to death row by making predictions about future violence. Racial bias has often played a troubling role. In the 1970s, one Supreme Court case paved the way.

Patients say the “Rock Doc” helped them like no one else could. Federal prosecutors say his “help” often amounted to dealing drugs for sex.

An internet-famous plastic surgeon faces hard questions, and a lawsuit, after building his brand on his patients’ bodies.

Inside America’s fast-growing civilian tactical training industry.

Following the United Nations’ war crimes detectives who tracked down a man who helped unleash the Rwandan genocide of 1994.

“I decided that if he would not tell us his story, then I would.”

Thirty years after it was first pioneered, the Brain Fingerprinting system is finally being put to the test.

Private executioners paid in cash. Middle-of-the-night killings. False or incomplete justifications.

A trip to Batumi, Georgia.

One year after a 14-year-old basketball player was killed by a stray bullet on a playground court in Queens, his friends and family still don’t have answers—only enduring anguish and a familiar feeling of grief.

Many of the 230,000 women and girls in U.S. jails and prisons were abuse survivors before they entered the system. And at least 30 percent of those serving time on murder or manslaughter charges were protecting themselves or a loved one from physical or sexual violence.

What it was like to be a rank-and-file Sony employee after the hack.

After a journalist was assassinated, her sons found clues in her unfinished work that cracked the case and brought down the government.

Armed with a handgun, a fake ID card and disguises, Miriam Rodríguez was a one-woman detective squad, attempting to catch her daughter’s murderers in the border town of San Fernando.

In 1986, two lovebirds busted out of a coed prison in a hijacked helicopter. They’ve been trying to escape ever since.

Did an affair with a Russian agent push Overstock’s Patrick Byrne too far?

In St. Louis, a former rival could end up springing Felix Key from a 28 year sentence.

Trawick was alone in his apartment when an officer pushed open the door. He was holding a bread knife and a stick. “Why are you in my home?” he asked. He never got an answer.

When model Kimberly Fattorini died after a night out in Hollywood, everyone assumed she’d accidentally overdosed. But there was more to the story.

Shaun MacDonald was an ambitious tech innovator whose start-up was going to revolutionize the crypto economy. His wealthy investors had no idea that their charismatic founder was really Boaz Manor, a notorious Canadian white-collar criminal.

Twenty-five years ago this month, “superpredator” was coined in The Weekly Standard. Media spread the term like wildfire, creating repercussions on policy and culture we are still reckoning with today.

How the President could endanger the official records of one of the most consequential periods in American history.