Best of 2016: Crime Reporting

Dee Dee Blancharde was a model parent: a tireless single mom taking care of her gravely ill child. But after Dee Dee was killed, it turned out things weren’t as they appeared — and her daughter Gypsy had never been sick at all.

Now she watched as her ruin seemed to unfold before her. It was enough to send her to jail, and more than enough to destroy her name.

Twenty-four years ago a Missouri father plunged a needle filled with HIV-positive blood into his son’s vein. No one at the time could’ve imagined anything worse. But the most astonishing part of all is the life the son turned out to live.

Without the rape and murder of a fellow University of Iowa student, artist Ana Mendieta, who herself died mysteriously aged 36, might never have achieved fame

The Republican has not followed through on many of his promises to give to charity.

Where pregnant women have more to fear than Zika

The Long Read: When a key figure in a powerful ‘ultra’ group killed himself in July, police suspected the mafia was using the ultras to get into the game

A death row attorney recalls what it was like to piece together a life cut short by poverty, racial inequality and capital punishment.

Mary Karr writes about the terrifying experience of being groped by a stranger during the middle of the day in New York.