Volume 16

No one outside the family noticed that thirteen-year-old Erica Parsons had been missing for a year and a half — until her adoptive brother Jamie, kicked out after a fierce argument, walked into the Rowan County Sheriff's Office with a chilling accusation about their parents. Read the full story →

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. Read the full story →

Springfield, Vermont, seemed like a postcard New England town until thirteen-year-old Sherry Nastasia vanished in August 1979. Over the next four years more young girls were taken — and the clue that finally broke the case was a church sweatshirt. Read the full story →

In tiny Agency, Iowa, newlywed Lisa Techel — a deputy sheriff's daughter, seventeen weeks pregnant — was killed by a shotgun blast as she slept. Her husband Seth said he was in the shower and pointed police toward the neighbor. Read the full story →

On Mother's Day 2018, hairstylist Joleen Cummings failed to pick up her three children in Yulee, Florida. Suspicion fell on a coworker at Tangles Hair Salon — a woman who, it turned out, had lived under eighteen different names across fourteen states. Read the full story →

Mindy Morgenstern, a farm-raised North Dakota college student adopted from Colombia, was found murdered in her Valley City apartment in September 2006. The DNA under her fingernails pointed somewhere unthinkable: a corrections officer living in her own building. Read the full story →

Thirteen-year-old Danny Croteau was found dead along the Chicopee River in 1972, and suspicion quickly settled on a family friend no one dared accuse: Father Richard Lavigne, the parish priest. The case would stay open for nearly fifty years. Read the full story →

A jogger's trembling 911 call one October morning in 2016 reported a body on a trail in St. Joseph, Missouri's Krug Park. Seventeen-year-old Kaytlin Root had been lured there by a Facebook message from someone calling herself 'Amanda Panda.' Read the full story →

While Marine Kevin Green stepped out for late-night food in September 1979, someone entered his Tustin, California apartment and savagely beat his pregnant wife, Dianna. She survived with shattered memories — and what she remembered would cost Kevin sixteen years. Read the full story →

When nineteen-year-old Natalie Bollinger disappeared from Broomfield, Colorado, in December 2017, everyone pointed to the homeless man she had taken out a restraining order against. Then investigators found the Craigslist ad Natalie herself had posted. Read the full story →

In the winter of 1993, the seaside Melbourne suburb of Frankston lived in terror as three young women — a student, a new mother out buying milk, a girl taking a shortcut home — were murdered in a matter of weeks. A yellow Toyota spotted near a bike path changed everything. Read the full story →

Days before Christmas 2013, Ilona Flint and Salvatore Belvedere were shot in a San Diego mall parking lot while searching for Salvatore's missing brother Gianni — Ilona's fiancé. Three weeks later, Gianni's car turned up a hundred miles away with a terrible secret in the trunk. Read the full story →

Lisa Ziegert, a beloved teacher's aide, vanished during her evening shift at Brittany's Card and Gift Shop in Agawam, Massachusetts, in April 1992. Her body was found four days later — but the DNA collected at the scene would wait twenty-five years for a name. Read the full story →