The story of the manhunt.

A profile of Alexey Navalny, a Russian anti-corruption crusader.

When a 26-year-old Chinese entrepreneur pulled over to answer a text message he was carjacked by Boston bombing suspect Tamerlan Tsarnaev. This is what happened that night and how he escaped.

“Dan Seavey stepped ashore the docks of Grand Haven, Michigan, armed with two of the most dangerous weapons known to man: booze and bad intentions.” The story of the early 20th century’s fiercest Great Lakes pirate.

A profile of Tamerlan and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev.

Ana Montes was a decorated U.S. intelligence analyst. She was also a Cuban spy.

A serial killer attempts to donate an organ.

Solving the mystery of the corpse in the Eleganté Hotel.

The story of Christopher Knight, who lived in the Maine woods for 27 years with virtually no human contact.

“Remember why we’re here: to empower the child. If you can’t handle it, keep your shades on.”

A look at the Mexican drug wars from the point of view of a narco’s mistress in Juárez.

Covering an election in Peru’s largest prison.

“Five years, four judges, six lawyers, $400,000 in attorney and expert fees and costs, a child yanked back and forth, [and] petty arguing.” Chronicling the slow end of one American marriage.

On the American teenager who was kidnapped by Islamic militants while on vacation in the Philippines.

On California’s three strikes laws.

How a Mossad agent’s desperate bid to jumpstart his career led to the exposure of two top Hezbollah plants.

On former nursing student One L. Goh, who killed six people at Oikos University in Oakland, California, and what it means to the Korean immigrant community.

Inside the most sensational murder in the history of study abroad.

Aaron Greene and Morgan Gliedman were young and in love and pregnant and partial to heroin and living in a Village apartment with a lot of heavy weaponry lying about. Then they were arrested, and their stories started to change.

After watching his father Sandy abuse his paralyzed former-jockey mother for years, Mat Crichton committed murder. Nearly the entire local farming community rallied in support of him.

Robert Berman was a passionate and polarizing English teacher at the Horace Mann School. He is also accused of sexually abusing many of his devoted students.

How one obscure sentence upset the New York Times.

A profile of the deadliest sniper in American history, who was murdered last month by a fellow soldier.

Alfred Anaya was a genius at installing secret compartments in cars. If they were used to smuggle drugs without his knowledge, he figured, that wasn’t his problem. He was wrong.

Amidst the football-obsessed culture of small-town Christian colleges in Kansas, a player is killed at a party.