Everyone knows the Ponzi scheme. Almost nobody knows the rest: the skin he donated to save a stranger, the wife who stayed 20 years, the charisma that made Boston love a fraudster, and the long ruin that followed.

Six days in a Stockholm bank vault in 1973 gave the world a new psychological term. But the woman it was named after says she was never ill. She was just trying to survive.

In the 1880s, a rebellious Parisian clerk invented the mug shot and modern crime scene photography. Now, forensic pathologist Philippe Charlier is reexamining the chilling images that resulted.