On September 30th, 2026, the State of Tennessee gave Christa Pike two doses of pentobarbital. She survived both.The country was stunned, but states had been botching executions for nearly four hundred years. This book tells the true stories of eighty-one of them, from a hanging in Oxford in 1650...

Sixty-five years after the drive, nobody has settled what happened on Route 3.On the night of September 19th, 1961, Betty and Barney Hill left a restaurant in Colebrook, New Hampshire, and headed home to Portsmouth through the White Mountains. They arrived after five in the morning, hours later...

Since 1997, young men have walked out of bars alone and turned up in rivers. Two retired New York detectives say the police have been calling murder an accident. They have a name for it–serial murder. They have a map–the first thirty-five cases fell along one stretch of Interstate 94, from...

A mother is told her newborn has died, and she goes home to grieve. The baby is alive – and has just been sold. In 2021, two young women in the country of Georgia learned they were twin sisters, separated at birth and raised apart. Their mother had been told both of her daughters died in the...