Part I: What we reckon with. A brutal lynching. An indifferent police force. A 34-year wait for justice / by Wesley Lowery

The short life of Toyin Salau and a legacy still at work / by Samantha Schuyler

"No choice but to do it" : why women go to prison / by Justin van der Leun

The golden age of white-collar crime / by Michael Hobbes

Picturesque California conceals a crisis of missing indigenous women / by Brandi Morin

How the Atlanta spa shootings

the victims, the survivors

tell a story of America / by May Jeong

Part II: The true crime stories we tell. Who owns Amanda Knox? / by Amanda Knox

Tie a tourniquet on your heart : revisiting Edna Buchanan, America's greatest police reporter / by Diana Moskovitz

The true crime junkies and the curious case of a missing husband / by RF Jurjevics

Has reality caught up to the "murder police"? / by Lara Bazelon

Part III: Shards of justice. Will you ever change? / by Amelia Schonbek

The prisoner-run radio station that's reaching men on Death Row / by Keri Blakinger

To the son of the victim / by Sophie Haigney

Three bodies in Texas / by Mallika Rao.