“The killing of Catherine Edwards, in Beaumont, long remained unsolved. Then came Othram, a start-up whose breakthroughs in DNA technology are helping identify bodies and solve decades-old murders and rapes.”
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The Wrong Stalker
“He was locked up for a dangerous infatuation. Nothing was as it seemed.”
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Death by Duxelles
“This was a story of culinary disguise, of meat concealed in dough and murder masquerading as lunch.”
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He Was One of the World’s Most Wanted Men. So He Bought a West African Country.
“How Jos Leijdekkers turned Sierra Leone into a drug-dealer’s paradise.”
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Inside the Crime Rings Trafficking Sand
“Organized crime is mining sand from rivers and coasts to feed demand worldwide, ruining ecosystems and communities. Can it be stopped?”
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Inside the Glitter Lab
“How the tiniest trace of red shimmer helped solve one of California’s most brutal crimes.”
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“That Guy is Still Out There”
“Five years after Anthony Broadwater was belatedly cleared for the sexual assault of Alice Sebold, the questions of how he came to be wrongly convicted and how one or more serial rapists operated for years with little consequence have only deepened.”
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The Fugitive Childhood of a Cocaine Smuggler’s Daughters
When their parents ripped two young sisters from their privileged lives, gave them fake names, and took them on the lam, they thought it was because their father was in trouble with the IRS. It would be years before they learned the truth about his life of crime.
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When the Hit Man Starts Talking
“A former FBI agent traveled to Louisiana to ask a hired killer about a murder that haunted him. Then they started talking about a different case altogether.”
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A Septic Tank in This Tiny Arizona Town Could Crack a 2006 Cold Case
“Keith King vanished 19 years ago in Seligman. A private detective thinks he knows where King’s body is — and who killed him.”
