Weighing the Balance evolved from a simple question: What happened to six men who were named and shamed in a very public news conference staged by the Toronto Police? (more)

This hour: Hustlers. Some are straight-up con artists, and others are just doing what they have to do to get by. (more)

This hour: A dark secret that threatens to tear apart a family. (more)

A neighbor is murdered, but the other neighbors can't figure out who he was. (more)

To celebrate the launch of our new website, the TCF presents the Chicago Sound Drops - short audio works that conjure the city through sound, story, and imagination. (more)

This hour: amateur sleuths and internet detectives. (more)

Residents of a quiet Santa Monica apartment building remember their neighbor, Charlie -- also known as notorious Boston crime boss James "Whitey" Bulger -- in this darkly comic piece. (more)

Hitchcock's Rear Window revisited through my own rear window. (more)

This hour: we explore some big ideas – justice, injustice, punishment, and redemption – through small, powerful, personal stories. (more)

Ray Matterson spent the first year of his seven and a half-year jail term feeling angry at the world. Then he found a kind of redemption -- in a pair of socks. (more)

A teacher discovers that one of her students is a murderer and another accidentally misses the killing. (more)

Slavery in America still exists. In southwest Florida, for example, women and girls from Central America arrive everyday looking for a better life. (more)

Being a teenager can be really hard. Especially if you’ve flunked out of school. Or your dad has disappeared. (more)

This hour: things anonymous. (more)

A true story: when we bought the crack house, we got more than we'd bargained for. (more)

America's history is rich with the stories of antagonistic coal strikes, but the Herrin Massacre of 1922 is a particularly distressing event that resulted in the deaths of nearly two dozen strike-breakers. (more)

This hour: Storied pasts and double lives.
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This hour: the strange world of competitive model horse collecting and an investigation of an old classmate’s death. (more)

For every action there is a reaction. This week we look at consequences, both micro and macro. (more)

Will the intrepid detective solve the murder most foul at Tragedy Castle? (more)