Volume 13

For five years, women vanished from the night streets of Baton Rouge while Sean Gillis lived quietly with a girlfriend who had no idea where he went after dark. The break in the case came from something as ordinary as a set of rare car tires. Read the full story →

The day before her twenty-second birthday, Angela Brosso set off on a five-mile bike ride along a Phoenix canal near her home and never came back. For more than two decades, the canal killings haunted the Sunnyslope neighborhood. Read the full story →

In 1970s Isla Vista, hitchhiking was simply how UC Santa Barbara students got around — until young women with outstretched thumbs began to vanish. When Jacqueline Rook missed Thanksgiving with her family, the community's free-spirited trust began to crumble. Read the full story →

When Tina Herrmann missed her shift at the Mount Vernon Dairy Queen, her manager drove out to check on her — and found a house full of blood but no trace of Tina, her two children, or her friend Stephanie Sprang. Read the full story →

Nineteen-year-old Kenia Monge planned to meet friends at a Denver nightclub called Lavish on a warm March night in 2011. She never made it inside — and suspicion soon fell on a stranger with a white van who had offered her a ride. Read the full story →

Fifteen-year-old Danielle Jones left for her school bus stop in East Tilbury, Essex, and vanished. Witnesses saw a girl in uniform arguing with a man in a blue van — a van that belonged to her own uncle, Stuart Campbell. Read the full story →

Coworkers at the Goleta mail facility knew Jennifer San Marco as the quiet sorter who argued with someone who wasn't there. After being forced out of her job, she moved to New Mexico, bought a handgun — and in January 2006, she came back. Read the full story →

Anita Cobby, a Sydney nurse who once won the Miss Western Suburbs beauty pageant, was walking home from a night out with friends in February 1986 when a carload of five men pulled alongside her — igniting one of Australia's most infamous manhunts. Read the full story →

In May 1973, fourteen-year-old Alexis Latimer and her best friend Sherri Clark took one last stroll down Folly Beach before dark. Police insisted the girls had run off with boys — until more young women were attacked in the sleepy South Carolina beach town. Read the full story →

Thirteen-year-old Daniel Morcombe stood beneath a Queensland overpass in December 2003, waiting for a bus that had broken down. When the next bus arrived ten minutes later, Daniel — and the man seen lingering behind him — had vanished. Read the full story →

On a warm August afternoon in 2014, fourteen-year-old Alice Gross texted her father that she was heading home along West London's canal towpath. Dinner came and went, and Alice never arrived — and the search would lead police to a Latvian immigrant with a dark past. Read the full story →

Neighbor Greg Koons peered over his backyard wall one January night in 1997 and watched Scott Falater drown his wife Yarmila in their Phoenix pool. Falater's defense stunned the country: he claimed he had been sound asleep the entire time. Read the full story →

A young woman found floating near Palm Beach in 1989. Two boys, Charlie Keever and Jonathan Sellers, murdered near their makeshift fort in California four years later. For years, no one imagined the crimes on opposite coasts could share a single killer. Read the full story →