Crime
To Catch a Thief
How a Civil War buff's chance discovery led to a sting, a raid and a victory against traffickers in stolen historical documents
April 2008 |
By Steve Twomey
Pay Dirt in Montana
A librarian's sleuthing turns up a crime with at least 100 victims
April 2008 |
By Steve Twomey
Outlaw Hunters
The Pinkerton Detective Agency chased down some of America's most notorious criminals
September 01, 2007 |
By Amy Crawford
The Pirate Hunters
As buccanneering is back with a vengeance, stepped-up law enforcement and high-tech tools work to help protect shipping on the high seas
August 2007 |
By Paul Raffaele
The Gentleman Pirate
How Stede Bonnet went from wealthy landowner to villain on the sea
August 01, 2007 |
By Amy Crawford
Digitizing the Hanging Court
Cutpurses! Blackguards! Fallen women! The Proceedings of the Old Bailey is an epic chronicle of crime and vice in early London. Now anyone with a computer can search all 52 million words
April 2007 |
By Guy Gugliotta
Talking to the Feds
The chief of the FBI's organized crime unit on the history of La Cosa Nostra
April 01, 2007 |
By Eric Jaffe
Ripped from the Walls (and the Headlines)
Fifteen years after the greatest art theft in modern history the mystery may be unraveling
July 2005 |
By Robert M. Poole
Treasure Quest
For more than a decade, American Robert Graf has combed the waters of a Seychelles island for a multimillion-dollar booty stashed by pirates nearly 300 years ago
December 2004 |
By Michael Behar
The Great Diamond Hoax of 1872
How a Kentucky grifter and his partner pulled off one of the era's most spectacular scams -- until a dedicated man of science exposed their scheme
June 2004 |
By Robert Wilson
Policing America's Ports
The 19,000 cargo containers flowing into the United States each day pose a needle-in-the-haystack challenge to security officials worried about hidden terrorist weapons
January 2004 |
By Fen Montaigne
Shadow Wolves
An all-Indian Customs unit possibly the world's best trackers uses time-honored techniques to pursue smugglers along a remote stretch of the U.S.-Mexico border
January 2003 |
By Mark Wheeler
A Fury from Hell—or Was He?
As underwater archaeologists pull artifacts from what may be the wreck of Blackbeard's flagship, historians raise new questions about the legendary pirate
February 2000 |
By Constance Bond
In Ponzi We Trust
Borrowing from Peter to pay Paul is a scheme made famous by Charles Ponzi. Who was this crook whose name graces this scam?
December 1998 |
By Mary Darby
Review of 'The Napoleon of Crime: The Life and Times of Adam Worth, Master Thief'
October 1997 | By Richard Wolkomir
