Some cops give their friends and family union-issued “courtesy cards” to help get them out of minor infractions. The cards embody everything wrong with modern policing.

In the 1980s some of the world’s most powerful institutions were taken in by stories, begun in Victoria B.C., of a global Satanic underground abducting and abusing thousands of children.

How precious maps, books, and art vanished from the Pittsburgh archive over the course of 25 years.

Interviews, documents and jailhouse recordings reveal a clearer picture of the life and death of the 26-year-old emergency room technician.

His hotel heists had detectives convinced they were on the trail of one of the world’s most skilled con-men.

Over a decade, Theodore Robert Wright III destroyed cars, yachts, and planes. That was only the half of it.

Fear, control, and manipulation at Yoga to the People.

I say, Where’s Breonna, why won’t anybody say where Breonna is? He says, Well, ma’am, she’s still in the apartment. And I know what that means.

Each year, California’s child protective services agencies remove thousands of kids from their homes. The story of how some parents decided to fight back.

Obinwanne Okeke was supposed to be a rags-to-riches Nigerian success story, was even featured on the cover of Forbes. Then the feds followed the money.

Cesar Sayoc turned his loyalty toward Donald Trump into a literal assault on the President’s Democratic enemies in 2018.

What is it like when a city abandons a neighborhood and the police vanish? Business owners describe a harrowing experience of calling for help and being left all alone.

How the FBI manufactures phony crimes to arrest so-called terrorists.

Two lawyers, a summer of unrest, and a bottle of Bud Light.

Converging in a tense section of Huntsville: A white police officer fresh from de-escalation training, a troubled black woman with a gun, and a crowd with cellphones ready to record.

The Bohemian Rhapsody director Bryan Singer has been trailed by accusations of sexual misconduct for 20 years. Here, his alleged victims tell their stories.

“If you could put your own crew together and rob the biggest drug dealer you know, who would that drug dealer be?”

A Florida family opted for restorative justice over the death penalty for the man who murdered their mom. What happened next made them question the very meaning of justice.

How the murder of Timothy Coggins was finally solved.

In the fall of 1966, billionaire Doris Duke killed a close confidant in Newport, Rhode Island. Local police ruled the incident “an unfortunate accident.” Half a century later, evidence suggests she got away with murder.

The gun-touting couple from St. Louis care more about private property than anyone realized.

When a car careened onto a baseball field in Sanford, Maine, during a Babe Ruth game in 2018, it set in motion a true-crime mystery 50 years in the making.

13 women, a months-long trial, and a jury’s choice.

Police monitored a hundred million encrypted messages sent through Encrochat, a network used by career criminals to discuss drug deals, murders, and extortion plots.

Why did two wealthy Sri Lankan brothers become suicide bombers?