Crime

One DC store, 16 surveillance cameras, and two murders in seven months

Brenda thought she and Ricky would be together forever, until he left her. Kendra thought she and Ricky would be together forever. Then Brenda took matters into her own hands. Inside the case of jealousy, spying, and murder that shook Uptown Dallas.

How anti-Semitic myths and victim-blaming are putting Orthodox Jews in New York at risk.

He was in charge of Nissan, Renault and Mitsubishi, and a hero of the business world. Now he's an international fugitive. Here's how it all unfolded.

A courier pretends to deliver a pizza and makes off with Amazon packages on a porch.

Ousted Nissan boss Carlos Ghosn decided to flee Japan after learning that his trial had been delayed until April 2021 and also because he had not been allowed to speak to his wife.

Drug companies are courting jails and judges through sophisticated marketing efforts.

Worldwide sales of knockoff goods exceeded $520 billion last year, representing 3.3 percent of all global trade.

Sheriffs regularly release sick and injured inmates to avoid paying their hospital bills. But some defendants charged with violent offenses like murder have been let out and gone on to commit new crimes.

James "one-eyed" Connelly spent 40 years sneaking into boxing matches, baseball games, and political conventions. His unmitigated gall and boundless creativity got him in pretty much...anywhere.

The testimony of a notorious con artist and jailhouse informant could mean the difference between life and death.

California has given counties more than $8 billion to handle thousands of new inmates. But lax rules and limited scrutiny have allowed some sheriffs to use the money for other things that might violate state law.

The British socialite has disappeared from public view since the death of her close friend Jeffrey Epstein.

James Harris Jackson killed Timothy Caughman as "practice" for a mass attack on black men in Times Square.

On December 23, 1927, a man dressed as Santa Claus walked into a bank and demanded money. Unfortunately, the bank was in Texas, and practically everyone in town was armed. Determining Santa was on the Naughty List, they opened fire.

"If they're investigating me, they're a**holes," he said. "I've been doing this for fifty years. I know how not to commit crimes."

Wary of alarming investors, companies victimized by ransomware attacks often tell the SEC that "malware" or a "security incident" disrupted their operations.

Could you get in trouble legally if you murdered someone in space?

On a woman who murdered her partner after years of abuse, and a new law on sentencing for crimes committed by victims of domestic violence.

Daniel Kaye, also known as Spdrman, found regular jobs tough but corporate espionage easy. He's about to get out of prison.

A user by the name of Victoria sends me her menu through a Discord direct message. "Selling PayPal, credit cards and Amazon gift cards," it reads. "Price list below."

The girl faked the kidnapping after her mom planned to move the family to Honduras, police sources told New York media outlets Tuesday night.

Living in a large city, I sometimes observe behavior that I find dangerous and/or abusive on the street, but as a young woman I hesitate to intervene, afraid of putting myself in harm's way.

They were highly sophisticated. The local police seemed helpless. Then a retired septuagenarian detective stepped in.

A Navajo girl was exploited and sex trafficked in urban and rural New Mexico. Why did so many fail to help her?

For several years KrebsOnSecurity closely monitored the day-to-day communications and activities of the Russian man allegedly behind vast, international cybercrime network. What follows is an insider's look at the back-end operations of this gang.

"I feel like the forgotten man,'" the man who's been accused of sexually assaulting or harassing more than 80 women told the New York Post.

"They took away everything left in me that was human and made me a monster," said the hit man.

WSAV reporter Alex Bozarjian had asked Georgia police to pursue charges against the man who groped and slapped her in the incident, which went viral on social media.

College student Liu Jingyao accused a tech billionaire of rape. Then the Chinese internet turned against her.

Organizations are asking for warm clothing and blanket donations for incarcerated people, but it shouldn't be up to charitable citizens to care for those in prison.

In the NulledCast hackers livestream the harassment of Ring camera owners after accessing their devices. Hundreds of people can listen.

On a sunny July day in 2018, Alexis Stern learned from police that her murder had apparently been ordered on a website called Camorra Hitmen.

Alex Bozarjian says the man who attacked her during a race "hit her hard" and she filed a police report.

We're sure that tripping their way through the heist and failing altogether wasn't part of the original plan.

How a years-long domain name feud ended in a bloody shootout.

Although Ring is telling families that they need protection from unsafe neighborhoods, the company is also radically changing what a typical neighborhood is like.

The facts are horrifying and widely reported: stabbings in London have never been more frequent and the rate is only increasing. But there's another statistic that's less well known: the murder rate is actually falling, rapidly so. To find out why, we visited St Mary's Hospital.

"I WROTE YOU A THREE-PAGE LETTER CONTAINING SOME OF MY THOUGHTS," the man who murdered Jo Cox told me, replying to a letter I had sent to him in prison. His note was short, just half a side of A4 paper, and there was no sign of the other three pages he mentioned.

Many remote Alaska Native villages have no law enforcement at all. But state troopers can be found in wealthier, and mainly non-Native, suburbs. Why?

The city's police started working less after an officer was sentenced for killing black teen Laquan McDonald. But Chicago actually got safer.

Wayne Hsiung has spent the last half decade rescuing sick, dying animals from factory farms. Now, he's facing prison time of up to 60 years.

A few months ago, Seamus Blackley sent me a loaf of bread in the mail. And then the police got involved.

Asta Juskauskiene had a dilemma: Two men each desperately wanted to be with her.

A lawsuit says that a federal prison work camp employed no fewer than seven officers who took advantage of their access and authority to sexually abuse the women in their control.

Four correction officers have been suspended as investigators examine their failure to stop an 18-year-old detainee's suicide attempt.

How two lottery-crazed bank clerks cooked up China's biggest bank robbery of all time.

Tech companies don't pay their taxes. Together, Amazon, Facebook, Google, Netflix, Apple and Microsoft may have skipped out on taxes since 2010.

High-interest loan companies are using Utah's small claims courts to arrest borrowers and take their bail money.

A murder in New Orleans, a trial that lasted less than a day, and the lives they entangled for the next three decades.

In December 2015, five young people were arrested in Australia during a botched drug trafficking attempt. In September 2019, their handler Yaroslav Pastukhov — a onetime Vice Canada editor known as Slava P. — pleaded guilty to conspiracy to import cocaine.

A shadowy hacker claimed to have the financier's sex tapes. Two top lawyers wondered: What would the men in those videos pay to keep them secret?

CCTV reveals how thieves were able to steal priceless 18th-century jewelry from a museum in Dresden.

Alan Dershowitz, Richard Dawkins, Richard Stallman and John Grisham frame themselves as brave challengers of the status quo. That's not how it reads to the rest of us.

German police say it's the largest art heist in postwar history.

There's just something about that squat box of cash that makes you want to bust it open. But how easy is it, really?

For those who have been manipulated and threatened into committing crimes, some experts believe that prison definitely isn't the answer.

Heavily shedding criminals, beware.

It's not just drugs. Mexico's cartels are fighting over avocados.

Of a total 2,300 missing paintings by Scottish painter Benjamin Creme, 1,200 have been recovered. They are valued at around at around $777,000.