The everyday violence of some urban neighburhoods in America takes its own emotional toll.

The flawed science that helped convict a Tennessee man of murder.

The transcript of chats between Silk Road boss Ross Ulbricht and a man he believes to be a Hell’s Angel who agrees to supply “hitters” to carry out 5 assassinations.

Eight of serial killer John Wayne Gacy’s victims remained a mystery, 35 years after his conviction. One man made it his mission to identify them.

Albuquerque has one of the highest rates in the country of fatal shootings by police, and no officer has been indicted.

How the singer became the target of the Federal Bureau of Narcotics’ early, racially-motivated war on drugs. </br></br>

Excerpted from Chasing the Scream: The First and Last Days of the War on Drugs.

The barely monitored use by cops of flashbangs, or military-style grenades.

How an elite anti-narcotics task force became the most brazen drug thieves on the Texas border.

The story of Tyrone Hood, who served 21 years for a murder he didn’t commit, and the Chicago criminal justice apparatus that allowed a serial killer to go free.

How the Border Patrol became America’s most out-of-control law enforcement agency.

A snitch comes clean.

Junky, out-of-date science fuels jury errors and tragic miscarriages of justice. How can we throw it out of court?

“The grand jury witness who testified that she saw Michael Brown pummel a cop before charging at him ‘like a football player, head down,’ is a troubled, bipolar Missouri woman with a criminal past who has a history of making racist remarks and once insinuated herself into another high-profile St. Louis criminal case with claims that police eventually dismissed as a ‘complete fabrication.’”

Three men are exonerated, almost 40 years after a 12-year-old’s coerced testimony led to their murder convictions.

On the border of Utah and Arizona, Mormon fundamentalists have long lived according to their own rules. When a former sect member and his family moved to the town where he’d grown up, they expected a homecoming. What they got was a war.

An argument for how the system protects police.

A judge on the history and injustice of the plea bargain in America.

In Goiânia, a city of 1.3 million in Brazil’s agricultural heartland, one in twenty homeless residents have been murdered in the last two years.

An epilogue to Serpico.

The fallout from a 1987 Wisconsin manhunt.

On the president’s campaign to crack down on campus rape.

On the court system’s excessive fines.

How a Chinese national, with the help of a suspected spy, disappeared with laptops and hard drives that may have contained sensitive information from the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center.

A profile of Michelle Lyons, who viewed 278 executions as both a local reporter and a spokesperson for the Texas Department of Criminal Justice.

Elias Pompa is the lone deputy in one of the poorest counties in Texas. He is also at the center of the U.S. border crisis.