Cold Cases
The 1962 Alcatraz Escape: Where the Physical Evidence Runs Out
The evidence shows how three men got out of their cells. The FBI’s account leaves their fate after the escape unresolved.
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Cold Cases
The Birmingham Church Bombing: Why the Prosecutions Took Decades
The 1963 bombing killed four girls. A reopened federal investigation helped Alabama bring two later murder prosecutions.
Cults & Coercion
Nancy Salzman and NXIVM: What the Racketeering Plea Covered
The former NXIVM president’s plea and sentence show a different part of the federal case against the organization’s leadership.
Trials & Outcomes
Enron After the Verdict: Why Jeffrey Skilling Was Resentenced
The federal case page shows how a revised sentence and forfeiture order changed the outcome years after the Enron trial.
Trials & Outcomes
The Madoff Victim Fund: How Forfeited Money Reached Claimants
The DOJ’s final distribution announcement shows how forfeiture recovered money and how to interpret the fund’s recovery figures.
Inside the Investigation
The Unabomber Investigation: How Familiar Writing Became a Lead
The FBI’s case history traces how family recognition and comparison documents moved a long investigation toward an arrest.
Trials & Outcomes
Theranos in Court: Why Elizabeth Holmes’s Verdict Was Split
The federal jury convicted Holmes on four investor-related counts and acquitted her on four patient-related counts. The count-by-count record shows how the verdict was reached.
The Epstein Files
The Epstein Files Document Library: An Index to the Original Records
Start here for the DOJ datasets, congressional releases, civil unsealings, federal charges, appeals, travel records and custody report.
The Epstein Files
The July 2025 DOJ and FBI Memo: How to Read Its Findings Alongside Later Releases
The two-page agency memo reports what reviewers found in investigative holdings. The later law created a separate public release process.
The Epstein Files
Epstein’s Banking Records: What New York’s Deutsche Bank Order Found
Read the New York regulator’s findings and distinguish a multi-matter bank penalty from other civil and criminal records.
The Epstein Files
Maxwell’s Appeal and Courtney Wild’s Case: Two Different Court Records
Follow the appellate dockets and distinguish the criminal appeal from litigation about victims’ rights in the Florida investigation.
The Epstein Files
The House Epstein Releases: Estate Records, Subpoenas and Provenance
Trace House committee documents to their source, then compare them with DOJ releases and court exhibits.