Who is ‘Tawnya Grilth’?

The story of Thor Holm Hansen—”Norwegian country singer, a former Outlaws motorcycle chieftain, and an ‘ambassador at large’ to a rebel Haitian government”—who claims to be back in Florida to locate his missing daughter.

On the case of young Joseph Hall, who was convicted last month of murdering his dad.

How Singaporean mobster Tan Seet Eng, aka Dan Tan, and a global network of fixers influenced as many 680 soccer matches at the highest levels.

An 88-year-old woman is taken from her Wisconsin farmhouse. Inside the investigation to find her.

Visiting a lost friend.

The bodies in the chalet were found in a secret chamber, arranged radiating out from a point like spokes in a wheel. Some had suffocated, some had been shot. They all were followers of a mysterious prophet, Luc Jouret.

The early life of “the onetime Black Panther, protégé of George Jackson, and sole member of the San Quentin Six convicted of murder.”

Israel Keyes confessed to multiple murders, but committed suicide before revealing all the details.

How Bert Schneider, a well-heeled Hollywood producer with a coke problem and a soft spot for radical politics, smuggled Huey Newton, the leader of the Black Panthers who was awaiting trial on a murder charge, into Cuba in 1974.

Almost five years ago, the author’s 13-year-old niece was murdered in her bedroom in suburban New Delhi. Since then, both of her parents have spent time in jail. Evidence, bungled by police, points to another possible killer. The trial has not yet begun.

Why Iran punished two leading AIDS doctors.

Calculating restitution for victims of child pornography.

On being stalked in the age of the Internet.

A scholarly dispute devolves into criminal impersonation.

In search of the perfect lie detector test.

How an overzealous forensic pathologist and his odontologist sidekick put innocent Mississippi residents behind bars – and let killers run free.

The story was told by Sports Illustrated, CBS News, and countless others: linbeacker Manti Te’o, Heisman trophy candidate and the face of Notre Dame football, was playing brilliantly despite the tragic loss of his girlfriend to leukemia early in the season. The reporters missed one key element of Te’o’s story, however: the girl hadn’t died. She couldn’t have. She didn’t exist.

An inmate’s protest.

An oral history of the University of Texas Tower massacre.

A bookkeeper’s $9 million swindle, her lavish second life, and the boss who didn’t notice.

A reporter who investigated Scientology tracks down the man who once ran the church’s intelligence operations – and who may hold the secret to years of harassment (and the mysterious death of a pet dog).

An investigation into the death of a sacred white buffalo and the man who raised it.

A profile of the 23-year-old woman who was savagely raped on a private bus as it circled New Delhi.