In 2013, ProPublica reporter David Epstein was contacted by a woman with a wild story and a batch of photos she believed were clues to the mystery of her condition. Turns out, she was right.| ProPublica
Jill Dopf Viles suspected a killer was hiding in her family’s genetic code. Symptoms popped up among her siblings, her father, her uncle, her grandmother, but, despite 15 annual visits to the Mayo Clinic, no clinician suggested anything more specific than muscular dystrophy.| Susannah Fox