Introduction: Bad men do what good men dream? / Lee Gutkind -- Origami & the art of identity folding / AC Fraser -- Leviathan / David McGlynn -- Gabrielle Giffords shooting: a fatal chain of events unfolds / Shaun McKinnon -- Regrets / Vance Voyles -- Grave robber: a love story / Joyce Marcel -- Apology / John Nosco -- Parrish, Rawlings, Hollis, and Flythe, 2008 / David McConnell -- The addict / Lacy M. Johnson -- Girl, fighting / Laurie Lynn Drummond -- The death of a family / David Updike -- Speaking of ears and savagery / Steven Church -- Origins of a murder / Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich -- Spectacle: the lynching of Claude Neal / Ben Montgomery -- "I didn't want to write crime porn": an interview with Erik Larson / Donna Seaman.