Volume 23

A Houston attorney handed prosecutors a card with an address on the back — and at the house on Berry Tree Drive, deputies found Jeff Wright buried beneath his own patio. His wife Susan had a story to tell. Read the full story →

Pat Walsh and Mary Anne Wysocki drove to wintry Provincetown for a weekend getaway in January 1969 and never came home — and the search for them would lead into the dunes and secrets of Tony Costa's Cape Cod. Read the full story →

Four teenagers left a Fort Leonard Wood card game to find pizza and gas on a January night in 1977. On the dark roads of the Missouri military base, they met military policeman Johnny Lee Thornton. Read the full story →

When the manager of the Bethesda Lululemon opened up on a March morning in 2011, the store was ransacked, Jayna Murray lay dead in the back hallway — and coworker Brittany Norwood was bound on the bathroom floor, moaning. Read the full story →

On a December morning in 1987, a man in a black coat and cowboy hat shot receptionist Kathy Kendrick in a Russellville law office and drove off toward the next name on his list — and what Ronald Gene Simmons had already done at Mockingbird Hill was worse. Read the full story →

After a ship's hatch fractured his skull, Raymond Fernandez emerged a changed and dangerous man — one who trawled the lonely hearts columns and, with Martha Beck, left a trail of widows across postwar America. Read the full story →

Wesley Shermantine and Loren Herzog grew up inseparable across Fine Road in tiny Linden, California. What the two friends did in the methamphetamine years would leave San Joaquin County digging for victims decades later. Read the full story →

In 1988, the body of brilliant American mathematician Scott Johnson was found at the base of the cliffs near Manly, Australia. Police called it a suicide — a story that would take three decades to undo. Read the full story →

Patients in Reidsville, North Carolina, trusted 'Young Dr. Klenner' with their lives — but Fritz Klenner had never attended medical school, and his years of deception would end in a trail of dead across two families. Read the full story →

Thirteen-year-old Dylan Redwine flew to Colorado for a court-ordered Thanksgiving visit with his father, Mark, at a remote house near Vallecito Reservoir. By morning, the boy who always texted back was gone. Read the full story →

Jim Stauffer donated his mother's body to Phoenix's Biological Resource Center for medical research and received her ashes ten days later. What investigators found inside the nondescript building on South 24th Street defied belief. Read the full story →

When Jimmy Don Beets's boat was found drifting empty on Cedar Creek Lake with his heart pills on the seat, it looked like a Texas fishing tragedy. His wife, Betty Lou, knew the lake wasn't holding the answer. Read the full story →