true-crime
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Cold Case Breakthrough: How DNA Solved a 24-Year-Old Murder
Ozark, Alabama, July 31–August 1, 1999 two seventeen-year-old best friends got lost on the way home from a party, stopped at a gas station for directions, drove away into the… Read more.
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The Empty Casket: The Theft of Julie Mott and the Question That Has Never Been Answered
San Antonio, Texas, August 15, 2015 a twenty-five-year-old woman died of cystic fibrosis after a lifetime of fighting it. Her family held a service. They planned a cremation. They said… Read more.
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The Murder of Colleen Slemmer and the Girl Who Brought Back a Piece of Her Skull
Knoxville, Tennessee, January 12, 1995 a nineteen-year-old was lured from a Job Corps dormitory and tortured to death over the course of an hour by a peer who brought back… Read more.
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Four Percent: The Murder of Kylee Monteiro
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, August 6–7, 2025 an eighteen-year-old sent her sister a text message that read “if I die, it was Greg” with her phone at four percent battery. Two weeks… Read more.
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The Green Notebook: The Murder-Suicide of Joshua Boren and His Family
Spanish Fork, Utah, January 16, 2014 a police officer everyone called a teddy bear shot his wife, two children, and mother-in-law with his service weapon, then lay down beside them… Read more.
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The Murder of Anna Lisa Raymundo
Stamford, Connecticut, November 8, 2002 a Harvard-educated pharmaceutical executive was stabbed to death in her townhouse by a woman so consumed by obsession that she then tried to kill her… Read more.
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The Murder of Teresa McAbee and the Death Row Case
Mascotte, Florida, May 11, 1987 an eleven-year-old girl walked to a convenience store for a pencil and never came home. Thirty-nine years later, with an execution warrant signed and a… Read more.
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The Candy Man: Dean Corll and the Houston Heights Boys
Houston, Texas, 1970–1973 a candy factory worker who murdered at least twenty-nine boys and young men with the help of two teenage accomplices, whose crimes were hidden in plain sight… Read more.
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The Disappearance of Andrew Gosden
Doncaster to London, September 14, 2007 a fourteen-year-old left home as if heading to school, bought a one-way ticket to London, walked out of King’s Cross Station, and has not… Read more.
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The Murder of Michael and Mary Short
Oak Level, Virginia, August 2002 a couple shot in their sleep, a nine-year-old girl taken from her bed, twenty-three years of investigation, and a case that remains the longest-running active… Read more.