Billy Dillon was about to sign a contract with the Detroit Tigers. Instead he was convicted–wrongly–of first-degree murder and spent the next 27 years in prison.

Unpacking a false confession 20 years later.

A profile of Ken Feinberg, lawyer who specializes in determining compensation after tragedies and disasters.

The Mennonite women of the Manitoba Colony would awake with blood and semen stains, dried grass in their hair, and tiny bits of rope on their wrists and ankles. Their rapists, armed with a veterinary tranquilizer converted to spray form, were eight young men from their own community.

The use and abuse of civil forfeiture.

Finding out your loved one is a notorious fugitive.

Shortly before leaving Goldman Sachs, Sergey Aleynikov downloaded around 32mb of source code from their high-frequency stock-trading system. Even as he was sent away for an eight year bid in federal prison, no one seemed to fully understand exactly what he did.

An older brother’s murder and its aftermath.

After a botched bank robbery in 1990, Sture Bergwall, aka Thomas Quick, confessed to a string of brutal crimes. He admitted to stabbings, stranglings, incest and cannibalism. He was convicted of eight murders in all, and after the final trial he went silent for nearly a decade. But a few years ago, Bergwall came forward again—there was one more secret he had to tell.

Was justice served in Steubenville?

From a Tokyo smash-and-grab to driving a car through the window of a Dubai jewelry shop, how a ragtag band of Balkan thieves set a new bar for audacious heists.

A member of the Pink Panthers, Milan Poparic, escaped from prison yesterday.

The misidentification of a Boston Marathon bomber and the future of breaking news.

“The government calls it “Operation Open Market,” a four-year investigation resulting, so far, in four federal grand jury indictments against 55 defendants in 10 countries, facing a cumulative millennium of prison time. What many of those alleged scammers, carders, thieves, and racketeers have in common is one simple mistake: They bought their high-quality fake IDs from a sophisticated driver’s license counterfeiting factory secretly established, owned, and operated by the United States Secret Service.”

On paleopathologist Gino Fornaciari and his investigations into murders from centuries past.

California’s most prolific serial killer returns with little fanfare after a 13-year break.

The mysterious life and death of Dow B. Hover, the man who ran New York’s electric chair.

The multiple lives of accused Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Jurors from the Emmett Till trial revisit the case 50 years later.

The hunt for a secretive network of British men obsessed with accumulating and cataloguing the eggs of rare birds.

The crimes of former NFL star Rae Carruth.

Previously: “The Boy They Couldn’t Kill” (Thomas Lake • Sports Illustrated)

How a con man named James McCormick sold $38 million worth of phony bomb-detection devices to Iraqi authorities.

Encounters with Albert DeSalvo, the self-confessed Boston Strangler.