Volume 18

To neighbors in Gilbert, Arizona, Marissa DeVault and Dale Harrell looked like a typical family — generous enough to take in a brain-injured Army veteran the kids called 'Uncle Stan.' What detectives found in the master bedroom shattered that picture. Read the full story →

Swedish twins Ursula and Sabina Eriksson lived quiet, unremarkable lives an ocean apart for forty years. Then, in May 2008, within hours of reuniting in Ireland, something shifted — setting off one of the most bizarre and baffling cases ever caught on camera. Read the full story →

'Hey, we've got a stiff in here.' Security guard Stephen Crawford's oddly detached radio call summoned police to Stanford Memorial Church at dawn in October 1974, where newlywed Arlis Perry lay dead beneath the stained glass. The hunt for her killer would span forty-four years. Read the full story →

Estate agent Stephanie Slater left her Birmingham office in January 1992 to show a house to a client who had booked by letter. Hours later, a chillingly calm voice phoned her office: 'I have your employee... it will cost you £175,000.' Read the full story →

When Stephen Allwine calmly reported that his wife Amy had shot herself in their Cottage Grove, Minnesota home, the scene almost looked right. But the pieces didn't fit — and the trail led investigators somewhere few had ever gone: the dark web's murder-for-hire sites. Read the full story →

Eight-year-old Maddie Clifton finished her piano practice and went out to play in her Jacksonville neighborhood on November 3, 1998, then vanished. For days, hundreds searched — while the answer lay closer to home than anyone could bear to imagine. Read the full story →

Louise Ellis set off from Ottawa for a weekend getaway in Quebec's Gatineau Hills in April 1995 and never arrived. Her boyfriend Brett Morgan reported her missing — after her distinctive Suzuki Sidekick turned up abandoned and locked on a rural roadside. Read the full story →

Helicopter pilot Babis Anagnostopoulos wooed teenage Caroline Crouch on the idyllic Greek island of Alonnisos, buzzing her schoolyard to impress her. Years later, he would tell police a harrowing story about a home invasion — a story technology would put to the test. Read the full story →

A security camera caught sixteen-year-old Skylar Neese slipping out her bedroom window at 12:30 a.m. and climbing into a waiting car in Star City, West Virginia. She knew the people inside — which made what happened next all the more incomprehensible. Read the full story →

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. Read the full story →

Dr. Andrew Bagby, a young physician beloved by his Pennsylvania patients, was found dead after ending his turbulent relationship with Shirley Turner, a medical-school classmate twelve years his senior. She fled to Newfoundland — carrying Andrew's unborn son. Read the full story →

The St. Croix County medical examiner walked into O'Connell Family Funeral Home in Hudson, Wisconsin, expecting routine paperwork — and found funeral director Dan O'Connell and a young intern shot dead. Hudson hadn't seen a murder in twenty-four years. Read the full story →

In May 2017, Nadja Medley posted happy videos of her fresh start on a Caldwell, Idaho farm with her teenage daughter Payton and her new love, Mike Bullinger. Within weeks, no one could reach Nadja, Payton, or Bullinger's wife, Cheryl Baker — and Bullinger was gone. Read the full story →