Three boys falsely accused of murder, and what the twenty-year saga says about all of us.

A participant in a deadly shooting spree decides to snitch on his friends.

The author on his 25 years in solitary confinement.

It’s tempting to think Marco McMillian was killed because of his race, his sexuality, or because he was running for mayor. The truth is more elusive.

The story of Tim Danielson, one of America’s top high school distance runners, who went on to murder his ex-wife.

Money, money, money.

A profile of Frank Lucas, whose life was the basis for the film American Gangster, decades after his days as a kingpin.

On the legal and practical details of the drone strikes that killed New Mexico-born Anwar al-Awlaki and later, accidentally, his sixteen-year-old Colorado-born son.

A generation that has seen inestimable violence comes of age in Juarez.

A world-renowned physicist’s miscalculation.

Searching for answers 40 years after a Brooklyn man threw acid in the face of his 4-year-old neighbor.

“It seemed like everyone gets raped and assaulted and no one does anything about it; it’s like a big rape cult.”

From Southie to Santa Monica, a gangster romance on the run.

On the Connecticut priest who dealt methamphetamine from his church and ran a sex ring from his apartment.

From 1975-1986, Anthony Edward Dokoupil distributed more than 50 tons of weed in the United States. The operation ruined his family and destroyed his life. Three decades later, his son came looking for answers.

On Cecilia Chang, the St. John’s fundraiser who committed suicide after being convicted of fraud, and the university administrators who benefited from her crime.

A profile of Max Wade, a Marin County teenager on trial for stealing Guy Fieri’s Lamborghini and using it in the first drive-by in the history of Mill Valley, California.

William Sparkman Jr., a census worker, was found hanging from a tree in rural Kentucky. He was naked, hands bound, with the letters “FED” written across his chest. Inside the investigation into how – and why – he died.

The enduring disadvantage of getting locked up.

Authorities say an American electronics engineer committed suicide after working on a project involving a Chinese telecom giant. His family believes he was murdered.

On the 1866 murder of Laura Foster and the subsequent hanging of Tom Dula.

How a Chicago drug organization did business.

How Curtis Duffy overcame his parents’ murder-suicide to become one of the nation’s great chefs.

Andre Thomas cut out his children’s hearts and removed his own eyes. Texas considers him sane.