Volume 24

Night auditor Vicki Heath was found behind the Super 8 in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, in 1987 — one victim of a predator working the motels along Interstate 65 whose name would stay hidden for thirty-five years. Read the full story →

In Germany's medieval city of Lübeck, barmaid Marianne Bachmeier raised her daughter Anna between the tables of her pub. What Klaus Grabowski took from her — and what she did about it in a courtroom — divided a nation. Read the full story →

Carole Sund planned every detail of her February 1999 trip to Yosemite with daughter Juli and Argentine exchange student Silvina Pelosso. When the three vanished with their rented red Pontiac, the search led to a man no one suspected. Read the full story →

Security cameras along North La Brea Avenue recorded a masked man drifting from store to store all morning. A little after 1:30 he entered Croft House, where 24-year-old design consultant Brianna Kupfer was working alone. Read the full story →

Martin Bryant, a jobless young millionaire with a childlike smile, set an alarm for the first time in his life on April 27, 1996 — then loaded an AR-15 into his yellow Volvo and drove toward Port Arthur, Tasmania. Read the full story →

Seventeen-year-old Alissa Turney had $1,800 saved for a summer in California when she disappeared from Phoenix on the last day of her junior year — leaving behind her stepfather, a former sheriff's deputy, and questions that lasted decades. Read the full story →

Nerissa and Katherine Bowes-Lyon were first cousins of Queen Elizabeth II — two disabled sisters whose family declared them dead while they were still alive inside the Royal Earlswood asylum. Read the full story →

Polish ad-agency owner Dariusz Janiszewski walked out to meet a mystery client in Wrocław in November 2000 and never returned — and the strangest clue would surface years later in a novel written by Krystian Bala. Read the full story →

Two boys Lisa Sorger had never seen before knocked on the family trailer in Ephrata, Washington, asking if Craig could come out and play. Her autistic thirteen-year-old followed Evan Savoie and Jake Eakin into the drizzle. Read the full story →

Christopher Scarver walked into a Milwaukee job-training office in 1990 with a pistol and a grievance — a crime that would put him behind bars with the most infamous inmate in Wisconsin, Jeffrey Dahmer. Read the full story →

Virginia Tech junior Morgan Harrington left her seat at a Metallica concert in Charlottesville in 2009 and never came back inside — and years later the case of Hannah Graham would bring her name roaring back. Read the full story →

The elegant young 'baronet' handing out calling cards in San Marino called himself Christopher Mountbatten Chichester. He was really Christian Karl Gerhartsreiter, a Bavarian teenager reinventing himself — and his greatest performance hid a body. Read the full story →