Crime

(And one weird skill that you probably did, for some reason.)

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A "seafood mafia" is plying the waters between India and Sri Lanka to satisfy China's appetite for an increasingly rare delicacy.

A visit with the author of a classic zine about unusual deaths.

A 50-square-mile patch of Yellowstone National Park in Idaho might just be the perfect place to commit a crime, thanks to a legal loophole.

The pleasures of reading about reading.

The Banū Sāsān were known for turning animals to lives of crime.

Where an escaped prisoner is said to have spent years in hiding.

The answer involves pseudoscience, politics, and a burglary at a windmill.

Medellín cartel founder Pablo Escobar built himself a sort of Jurassic Park-meets-Disney World resort. Now it’s overrun by hippos.

There's more to this 19th-century crime than the dark side of fairy lore.

The one-time floating pleasure palace left a legacy of murder and maritime disaster in its wake.

If you are “Playing the Game,” the answer is elementary.

Built from recycled materials by an eccentric con artist in the 1930s, the curious creation was demolished—and then reborn.

For more than 30 years, Parveena Ahangar has looked for those who have disappeared in Indian-administered Kashmir.