In 2008, Hana Williams left an Ethiopian orphanage to join a large, Christian fundamentalist family in America. Three years later she was dead.

On the Kunsthal heist and the murky economics of making money from stolen paintings.

A profile of Perry Fellwock, a.k.a. Winslow Peck, who exposed the NSA in an 1972 article for Ramparts magazine.

Growing up in a Toronto suburb while a serial rapist is on the loose.

The trial of a 10-year-old who murdered his neo-Nazi father.

How John Snavely went from petty criminal to porn star to prison.

They advertise murder for hire but work for the government. Inside the world of America’s fake hit men.

Separating truth from lore in Haiti: “The dossier was, at bottom, a murder story, the judge said—but it was a murder story with the great oddity that the victim did not die.”

What did soccer have to do with two brutal murders after a pickup game?

The complicated case of Michelle Kosilek, a murderer fighting for sexual reassignment surgery.

An examination of the Minutemen movement and death on the border.

How architecture has made Los Angeles a bank robber’s paradise.

Lauren spent six years of her childhood locked in a closet, starved and tortured by her birth mother and stepfather. Miraculously, she survived; that’s when her long road to recovery began.

Memories of a lovely afternoon with a serial killer.

How Michael Manos, a.k.a. the Glam Scammer, a career con man who relied on a combination of fake reality TV shows and fake fundraisers to bilk people in Atlanta, Dallas, and D.C., finally got caught.

After a beloved teacher is murdered by his schizophrenic son, his colleagues and students pay him the ultimate tribute.

The underground economy of child sex trafficking, and what happens after someone is rescued from it.

Last year, a group of young Romanians stole millions of euros worth of art from the Kunsthal museum in Rotterdam. They had previously only robbed homes and thought the artwork would be easy to sell. It was not. So they secreted it back home, where, in an effort to save her son, the leader’s mother burned it.

After two cycling-related deaths, the social fitness network becomes a target.

A Hells Angel informant’s path from destruction to redemption and back, and a family’s trouble with witness protection.

How Chicago is key to a business moving tons of drugs for billions of dollars.

On the online mug shot industry, which posts mug shots of anyone arrested (regardless of conviction) and charges $30 to $400 to have the photo removed.

A family investigates.

Badfinger’s ill-fated attempt at a comeback, as orchestrated by a Milwaukee con man.

On the fall of Ross William Ulbricht, the alleged creator of The Silk Road, a hidden black market website where users could buy and sell drugs, guns and, according to the FBI, the services of a hit man.