A serial killer rends a jagged hole in the fabric of our moral universe. How can someone commit a murder, then another and another, and how can they get away with it? Where does the impulse to kill ...

In 2014, the story of Adnan Syed and Hae Min Lee gripped the world. But the crime in question happened 15 years earlier. Lee, a Baltimore-area high school student, was strangled to death in 1999. Her ...

This article is part of The Poynter 50, a series reflecting on 50 moments and people that shaped journalism over the past half-century — and continue to influence its future. As Poynter celebrates its ...

The legal battle over Adnan Syed’s conviction, scrutinized a decade ago in the hit podcast “Serial,” keeps twisting and turning, even after prosecutors freed him from more than 23 years in prison for ...