Witnesses
Our Local Correspondents
What Is Hope Hicks Crying About?
During Donald Trump’s criminal trial, the inscrutable former White House aide was equally inscrutable on the witness stand, despite breaking out into tears while testifying.
As Told To
“The Longest Thirty Seconds of My Absolute Life”: A Survivor’s Account of the Brooklyn Subway Shooting
Kenneth Foote-Smith, recounting the agony, courage, and paralysis on the N train, said, “It just screams negligence.”
Annals of Justice
When a Witness Recants
At fourteen, Ron Bishop helped convict three innocent boys of murder. They’ve all lived with the consequences.
News Desk
The Importance of Cigarette Receipts in a Thirty-Two-Year-Old Murder Case
Two Brooklyn men have asked a court to vacate their convictions for the murder of a French tourist in 1987. Could proving the purchase of a carton of Marlboros provide the key to their exoneration?
Letter from Amsterdam
How a Notorious Gangster Was Exposed by His Own Sister
Astrid Holleeder secretly recorded her brother’s murderous confessions. Will he exact revenge?
Shouts & Murmurs
Juror Instructions
A Reporter at Large
Bring Up the Bodies
Personal History
Identity Parade
A Reporter at Large
Trial by Fire
Fiction
Bravado
“Nobody spoke while the assault was taking place, not in the garden, not on the road.”