Volume 2

During a final walkthrough before the sale of a Jericho, New York house in September 1999, the buyer insisted on removing a 355-pound barrel that had sat wedged in the crawlspace for decades — a barrel the seller had never once opened. Read the full story →

When Jamie Laiaddee disappeared from Arizona, prosecutor Juan Martinez — later famous for the Jodi Arias trial — took her boyfriend to court without a body, without physical evidence, and with a defendant who answered to two different names. Read the full story →

A first date arranged on plentyoffish.com came with strange instructions — sneak in under the half-open garage door — and Gilles Tetreault stumbled out of that dark garage having barely escaped a man in a hockey mask following a script. Read the full story →

Nine-year-old Elizabeth Olten set off on the four-house walk home from a neighbor's in tiny St. Martin, Missouri, and never arrived — and her cell phone signal pointed hundreds of searchers into the dark woods directly behind their homes. Read the full story →

In July 1996, a fishing trawler off Southwest England hauled up the fully clothed body of a man wearing a Rolex — and the watch's stopped hands, along with a maple leaf tattoo, began unraveling an international deception. Read the full story →

On June 28, 2007, Paige Birgfeld drove home from a picnic with her high-school-sweetheart ex-husband and vanished — and the search for the Grand Junction, Colorado mother of three uncovered a secret life no one around her suspected. Read the full story →

Jamie Reynolds told seventeen-year-old Georgia Williams he needed a model for a 'fake hanging' photo shoot at his Wellington, England home — an art project he had carefully planned for while his parents were away in Italy. Read the full story →

In 1977, twenty-year-old hitchhiker Colleen Stan turned down rides that looked like trouble before accepting one from a clean-cut young couple with a baby — a decision near Red Bluff, California that would swallow seven years of her life. Read the full story →

When Pauline Lasham told police her son Robert Napper had confessed to a rape near Plumstead Common, they checked their records, found nothing, and let it go — while the attacks along London's Green Chain Walk were only beginning. Read the full story →

Repo man Mike Adams kept his Frisco, Texas showplace in flawless order — labels facing forward, a couch no one could sit on, handguns sorted by caliber — and his fixations turned menacing after Nicole Leger and her teenage son moved in. Read the full story →

Long before he posed as a professional photographer hiring Los Angeles models, Harvey Glatman was a bullied Denver kid with a disturbing childhood fascination with rope — an obsession that never let him go. Read the full story →

Nineteen-year-old Myles Fukunaga worked eighty-hour weeks to keep his family afloat in 1929 Hawaii, but when the Hawaiian Trust Company came collecting back rent once again, his quiet desperation fixed on a plan inspired by the Leopold and Loeb case. Read the full story →