Patrick Radden Keefe

New Orleans’s Car-Crash Conspiracy

High-speed accidents, crooked lawyers, and poor people desperate for cash—it was the kind of scheme that could have been cooked up only in the Big Easy. Patrick Radden Keefe reports.

Did Ken Dornstein Solve the Lockerbie Bombing?

Patrick Radden Keefe on the author of “The Boy Who Fell Out of the Sky,” and his attempt to track down terrorists in Libya, make a film, and crack the case.

A Loaded Gun

Patrick Radden Keefe on Amy Bishop, a scientist with a degree from Harvard who killed three University of Alabama colleagues two decades after shooting her brother.

A Teen’s Fatal Plunge Into the London Underworld

After Zac Brettler mysteriously fell to his death in the Thames, his parents, Matthew and Rachelle, discovered that he’d been posing as an oligarch’s son, including in dealings with Akbar Shamji and Verinder (Dave )Sharma. Patrick Radden Keefe reports on the case’s many complexities, including an oddly curtailed police investigation.

The Family That Built an Empire of Pain

Patrick Radden Keefe on how the Sackler family and its firm, Purdue Pharma, ruthlessly marketed painkillers to generate billions of dollars—and millions of opioid addicts.

Carl Icahn’s Failed Raid on Washington

Was President Trump’s richest adviser focussed on helping the country—or his own bottom line?

The Detectives Who Never Forget a Face

Patrick Radden Keefe on CCTV cameras and a possible revolution in law enforcement.

Where the Bodies Are Buried

Patrick Radden Keefe’s 2015 report on Gerry Adams and the notorious murders and secret burials that the I.R.A. claimed he authorized during the Troubles, in Northern Ireland.

The Hunt for El Chapo

Patrick Radden Keefe on the capture of Joaquín Guzmán Loera, who is known as El Chapo, the notorious head of Mexico’s Sinaloa cartel.

Buried Secrets

Patrick Radden Keefe on how Beny Steinmetz, an Israeli billionaire, wrested control of the iron-rich Simandou mountain range in Guinea, in West Africa.

Reversal of Fortune

A crusading lawyer helped Ecuadorans secure a huge environmental judgment against Chevron. But did he go too far?

Cocaine Incorporated

How the world’s most powerful drug traffickers run their billion-dollar business.

The Trafficker

The decades-long battle to catch an international arms broker.

State Secrets

Patrick Radden Keefe on a case involving an Islamic charity, a possible terrorist connection, and a government-wiretapping lawsuit.

The Idol Thief

Inside one of the biggest antiquities-smuggling rings in history.