Friday

A businessman went to Florida to make one last deal before he retired-he never returned home to his millions. Authorities examined who was closest to him and who stood to gain from his disappearance. But this time conventional rules didn’t apply.

Many escape the poverty of India to start new lives in the United States. One turned the American dream into a nightmare. People started turning up dead in New York’s Indian community-authorities struggled to link fraud and murder to a powerful man.

In Miami, the discovery of a mutilated body sent investigators on the trail of a deadly cult. But agents found a wall of silence around the cult’s members. Potential witnesses, terrified of reprisals, refused to talk.

Money may not be the root of all evil, but for some men, a million dollars is enough to justify murder. Even men sworn to uphold the law can sometimes be tempted.