01
James Patterson Smith
On an April afternoon in 1996, forty-eight-year-old James Patterson Smith calmly walked into a Manchester police station to report that his teenage girlfriend, Kelly Anne Bates, had drowned in his bathtub — but the crime scene brought seasoned officers to tears. Read the full story →
02
Fred Grabbe
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. Read the full story →
03
The Murder of Elaine O’Hara
Elaine O'Hara vanished near Dublin in August 2012, the day after her release from a psychiatric hospital — and the investigation that unfolded over the next three years exposed one of the most shocking crimes in Irish history. Read the full story →
04
The Toolbox Killers
Lawrence Bittaker and Roy Norris met behind prison walls, then bought a windowless 1977 GMC van they nicknamed 'Murder Mac' — and began cruising the Pacific Coast Highway toward a fire road in the San Gabriel Mountains. Read the full story →
05
Chris Coleman
Chris Coleman guarded world-famous televangelist Joyce Meyer for a living, yet couldn't seem to protect his own family from an anonymous letter-writer's threats — until police climbed through a window of his Columbia Lake home into a scene reeking of spray paint. Read the full story →
06
Dr. John Schneeberger
On Halloween night 1992 in tiny Kipling, Saskatchewan, a distraught young mother sought help from the town's beloved Dr. John Schneeberger — and what she remembered from that examination room would pit her word against his DNA. Read the full story →
07
Mary Bell
In Newcastle's crumbling Scotswood slums in 1968, four-year-old Martin Brown was found dead in a derelict house — and the trail led police to Mary Bell, a ten-year-old girl the neighborhood children already feared. Read the full story →
08
Michelle Bica
In September 2000, two expectant mothers met by chance in a Walmart and discovered they were neighbors — days later, Theresa Andrews vanished along with the Jeep Wrangler she had arranged to sell to a mystery buyer. Read the full story →
