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The mystery started — as things so often do these days — on Reddit. Browsing through the Minnesota subreddit, I came across a post headlined, “Look what I found on Google maps.” But it wasn’t the title that caught my attention, it was the accompanying photo: a grove of trees shaped exactly like Minnesota.
Read MoreThey talk about the Boogeyman as if he was another species. At six-foot, seven-inches tall—add three inches in skates—the Wild left winger stands a head above most NHL players (one writer describes him as "yeti-like"). Weighing 250 pounds, he has a gorilla's arms and hands the size of concrete blocks. They're always thrown with bad intentions.
Read MoreAt first I worried I'd have trouble picking Jeremy out of the crowd—Caribou Coffee was packed—but there was no mistaking him. "Gaunt" isn't the word. He's fragile. Brittle. His skin is stretched so tight over his temples that you can practically see his thoughts.
Read MoreAt 51, having children wasn't at the top of Katharine Dvorak's to-do list. But her partner of two years, Evangeline Jones, was three decades younger and felt the motherly urge. Dvorak didn't want to stand in her way. "It would be depriving her of the chance to do this in her life," Dvorak thought.
Read MoreSitting in a City Hall office, dressed impeccably in a black pinstriped suit and a collarless button-down shirt, O. Mays is describing how he, an East Cleveland city councilman, came to be cruising a crime-ridden East Side street in the wee hours of the morning.
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Tim Markley doesn't seem like someone who'd murder an elderly neighbor. At 41, he's bald and slight of frame, favoring tropical shirts and jokes so corny they require rim shots. A fireman by trade, he prides himself on saving lives. "It's my job to make sure everybody goes home," he says.
Read MoreAbe Javadi has yet to enter the cage, but he has already made his first mistake. The lanky 20-year-old has braided his long brown hair instead of shaving it off. It's a small concession to vanity, but as anyone who's seen ultimate fighting can testify, he might as well have installed a handle on his head.
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