World / Crime & Legal May 18, 2013

A glimpse inside the minds of sex slavery predators

by Paul Harris and Ed Pilkington

The annals of criminal history are writ large with ordinary streets that hide dark secrets, but even so the peculiar horror believed to have been perpetrated by Ariel Castro on Seymour Avenue in the rust-belt city of Cleveland stands out. He stands accused of kidnapping ...

World / Crime & Legal May 13, 2013

Before the Cleveland nightmare, hints of darkness

by Luz Lazo

Shorty needed a ride home. She got confused sometimes, the result of some undefined mental condition, and wasn't always sure where she'd wandered. Her family knew this about Michelle "Shorty" Knight, all 139 cm of her, and that's why they worried. She got in a ...