Murder Case

News October 18

Nearly a Decade Awaiting Trial, Now Freed

Neko Wilson to be released in the first test of California’s felony murder law.

By Abbie VanSickle

The California Experiment June 27

Can It Be Murder If You Didn’t Kill Anyone?

A distinctly American legal doctrine holds getaway drivers and lookouts as responsible for a death as the actual killer. California is having second thoughts.

By Abbie VanSickle

Case in Point May 6

A Murder Case Unravels

Prosecutors stacked the deck. Forty-one years later, that may be enough to free Johnny Gates.

By Andrew Cohen

Feature January 18

The Volunteer

More than a year ago, Nevada death row prisoner Scott Dozier gave up his legal appeals and asked to be executed. He’s still waiting.

By Maurice Chammah

Feature November 6, 2017

Can Prosecutors Put the Same Gun in the Hands of More Than One Shooter?

They can, and they do.

By Ken Armstrong

Case in Point April 24, 2017

Is It Murder if There’s No Homicide?

The strange case of a convicted killer whose “victim” probably died of her own drug overdose.

By Andrew Cohen

Case in Point April 10, 2017

About the Gun-toting, One-legged Kentucky Woman Seeking Justice...

...and the detective she says cooked the case.

By Andrew Cohen

Life Inside March 23, 2017

Her Son Murdered, a Chicago Mother Waits for Answers

Two years later and no arrest. ‘Will it ever happen?’

By Cheryl Hayes as told to Justin George

Feature March 22, 2017

“Harmless Errors”

Eight young men and the murder story that sent them away for life

By Thomas Dybdahl

Life Inside January 5, 2017

‘Who Killed My Mom?’

A grandmother struggles to explain the unexplainable.

By Lisa Marino, as told to Eli Hager