Volume 22

Eleven-year-old Junny Rios-Martinez made the local paper when he won a kite contest on Florida's Space Coast. The very next day, a man calling himself a Florida Today photographer phoned his family asking to meet the young champion. Read the full story →

Fifteen-year-old Michael Rock was riding his bike past a Vero Beach house in July 1983 when a naked, bound teenage girl came running down the gravel driveway, screaming — with a large man in pursuit. Read the full story →

In Room 214 of Morton Hospital in Taunton, Massachusetts, cancer patient Norma Leanues screamed in agony that no medication could touch — and what happened next would put nurse Anne Capute at the center of a case that divided a city. Read the full story →

When police climbed through a window of the darkened List mansion in Westfield, New Jersey, in December 1971, the house was ice cold, the family had been 'away' for a month — and church hymns were still playing over the intercom. Read the full story →

A whispered 911 call from a Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, home began: 'My brother's attacking my family.' Then the screaming stopped, a male voice said hello, and the line went dead. Read the full story →

Kosta Fotopoulos told Daytona Beach police he had shot a burglar who put a bullet in his sleeping wife's head. But the dead intruder had stolen nothing — and had walked straight to the couple's bedroom. Read the full story →

A CSX conductor crossing a trestle bridge in Findlay, Ohio, thought the shape between the rails was a deer. It was young mother Vera Jo Reigle — and the family she trusted held the answers. Read the full story →

Eight days before Christmas 2009, a house fire lit up a quiet street in Kennedale, Texas — the home of John Hummel, his wife Joy, their five-year-old daughter, and Joy's father. Investigators soon realized the fire was only the cover story. Read the full story →

On the Fourth of July 1996, nine-year-old Cynthia Allinger left her Lakewood, Washington, apartment in her favorite flowered dress to visit friends nearby. By the time the fireworks faded, she still hadn't come home. Read the full story →

When fire tore through the Prairie Village, Kansas, mansion of physician Debora Green in October 1995, her children were still inside — and investigators would learn the flames were not the family's first brush with poison and ruin. Read the full story →

Mark Hacking told Salt Lake City police his wife Lori never returned from her morning jog in Memory Grove. Within weeks, investigators would uncover a web of lies so elaborate it stunned even those closest to him. Read the full story →

Accounting student Mary Fleszar stepped out for fresh air on a July evening in Ypsilanti in 1967 and vanished — the first of the coeds whose deaths would terrorize Eastern Michigan University for two years. Read the full story →