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The Burning Barrel
On a July evening in 1981, Charlotte Grabbe never came back from the soybean fields of her family's Marshall, Illinois farm — her tractor parked in the shed, her lunch box untouched, and her divorce from the violent Fred Grabbe still unfinished.
Arizona Torso Murder #2
Six-times-married showgirl Marjorie Orbin finally landed the comfortable Scottsdale life with art dealer Jay Orbin — then Jay vanished on the road, and a blue Rubbermaid container turned up at the edge of the desert.
The Broomstick Killer
Doted on by his pistol-packing mama in tiny Rosebud, Texas, Kenneth McDuff grew from small-town bully into one of the most sinister figures in Texan history — a killer handed unprecedented leniency by the very system meant to stop him.
Mom, I'm a Monster
On October 5, 2012, ten-year-old Jessica Ridgeway started her ordinary morning walk to school in Westminster, Colorado and vanished — while the man who had attacked a jogger at nearby Ketner Lake months earlier was still unidentified.
The Homeschoolers
Eleven-year-old Hana Alemu was adopted from Ethiopia into Larry and Carri Williams' strict homeschooling household of nine in Sedro-Woolley, Washington — a rescue rooted in faith, and in the harsh discipline of a book called To Train Up A Child.
A Heartless Mother
After her young son David died, St. Louis mother Ellen Boehm bought a new car rather than pay his $2,348 funeral bill — and seemed more upbeat than ever. She still held a $5,000 life insurance policy on each of her surviving children.
The Piggy Palace
Women had been vanishing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside since 1983 — so many, and so invisible, that authorities took nearly a decade to notice. The trail eventually led out of the city to a pig farm and a man named Robert 'Willy' Pickton.
Where is Heather?
Peering through his new high-powered telescope over the Ohio River, Tim Walthall watched a young woman set up her beach chair on the Kentucky shore — then witnessed something that sent him racing for the phone. The search for Heather Teague never truly ended.
Worlds Worst Mom
Driving near Lake Tahoe at dawn in June 1984, Maybel Harrison spotted flames beside the highway: a young woman burning on a makeshift pyre, bound, gagged, and unidentifiable. Nearly a decade later, Terry Knorr told police a story about her own family that no one believed.
A Tragic December
On a snowy December Friday in 2010, Joanna Yeates kissed her boyfriend goodbye at the Bristol train station, had drinks with coworkers, and bought a pizza for her first night alone in their basement flat. She never answered another of his calls.
The Highway of Tears
On a snowy November night in 2010, an RCMP officer watched a black pickup fishtail out of a deserted logging road near British Columbia's infamous Highway of Tears. The young driver, Cody Legebokoff, had blood on his face — and a story that didn't add up.
The Pink Notebook
Tracey Richter told the 911 dispatcher that two intruders had attacked her in her Early, Iowa home and that she had shot one to save her children. The dead man was a quiet twenty-year-old neighbor — and a pink notebook would tell a far stranger story.
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