Crime
Rare Colonial Court Documents Found on eBay
Thanks to a historian’s spidey sense, they’re now housed in a New York archive
New Badges Will Make Today's Girl Scouts Tomorrow's Cybersleuths
Camping and cookie sales are just the tip of the iceberg for modern scouts
Sliver of Saint’s Brain Stolen From Italian Basilica
Police are looking for the person or persons who swiped the sacred relic from the Don Bosco Basilica
See 17th-Century England Through the Eyes of One of the First Modern Travel Writers
Celia Fiennes traveled and wrote about her adventures—including a bit of life advice
How Thousand-Year-Old Trees Became the New Ivory
Ancient trees are disappearing from protected national forests around the world. A look inside $100 billion market for stolen wood
First-Ever Federal Transgender Hate Crime Sentence Handed Down
Mercedes Williamson’s killer was prosecuted in the absence of a Mississippi state law protecting trans people against hate crimes
Handwritten 'Harry Potter' Prequel Stolen
Police and J.K. Rowling have urged fans not to buy the magical manuscript
Has the FBI Ever Been Divorced From Politics?
From its earliest days, Congress feared it would act as a “secret federal police”
Deer Caught Gnawing on Human Bones
For the first time, researchers spotted a white-tailed deer chewing on a rib bone at a body farm
Rhino Horn Stolen From the University of Vermont
A thief broke in and snatched the horn, which could be worth half a million dollars on the black market
What Coconuts Can Tell Us About Escaping Alcatraz
Researchers are using GPS-enabled coconuts to monitor currents to determine if three men could have survived a 1962 escape from "The Rock"
Almost Half of Natural World Heritage Sites Are Threatened by Criminal Activity
A WWF report found that illegal poaching, logging, and fishing impacts 45 percent of the designated locations
Sealed Files of the United Nations War Crimes Commission Will Finally See Light of Day
The massive archive has already revealed that war crimes charges against Hitler were drawn up as early as 1944
National Park Service Seeks Public Help in Death Valley Fossil Theft
Fossilized footprints, which had been left in a lakebed by ancient mammals and birds, have been swiped
Vandals Deface Rock Art In Chad's Ennedi World Heritage Site
Names were written in French and Arabic on some of the area's rock art, which can date back as far as 8,000 years
Unmasking the Mad Bomber
When James A. Brussel used psychiatry to think like a criminal, he pioneered the science of profiling
Thomas Jefferson, Aaron Burr and the American Way of Treason
The U.S. had good reason to be cautious about drawing a line between disloyalty and conduct deserving of prosecution
Why Nobody Remembers the Forefather of Forensic Science
Wilmer Souder was a hidden pioneer of a still developing field
Thieves Rappelled Into a London Warehouse in Rare Book Heist
The burglars made out with more than 160 books worth an estimated $2.5 million
World’s Largest Refugee Camp Ordered to Stay Open
A Kenyan judge called the government's plan to close Dadaab "discriminatory"
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