Volume 26

Allison Baden-Clay spoke six languages, raised three daughters, and was married to a Brisbane real estate agent carrying the famous Baden-Powell name. When she vanished from their Brookfield home in 2012, the garden held the first clue. Read the full story →

Mia Zapata, the electrifying voice of Seattle punk band The Gits, left a Capitol Hill bar alone on a July night in 1993. Finding out what happened on her walk home would take a decade and a science that didn't exist yet. Read the full story →

A year after a man cut a hole in the family tent at a Montana campground and took seven-year-old Susie Jaeger from among her sleeping siblings, the phone rang in the Jaeger home — and the kidnapper wanted to talk. Read the full story →

NYPD officer Gilberto Valle had a wife, a baby daughter, and a spotless record. Then his wife looked at their shared laptop and found the conversations he was having after his shifts ended — about the women in his life. Read the full story →

Ten-day-old Delimar Vera was presumed dead in a Philadelphia rowhouse fire in 1997, though no remains were ever found. Her mother, Luz Cuevas, never stopped looking at one particular child at family gatherings. Read the full story →

Betty Broderick supported Dan through medical school and law school and raised his children — the perfect Catholic wife's bargain. When he left her for his young assistant Linda Kolkena, the divorce became a war San Diego never forgot. Read the full story →

Tyler Clementi arrived at Rutgers a gifted violinist quietly starting a new life. Weeks into his freshman year, his roommate Dharun Ravi pointed a webcam at Room 30 — and Tyler found out what it had seen. Read the full story →

Corinna Smith had never been in trouble in fifty-eight years — a charity volunteer caring for her ailing 80-year-old husband Michael in Neston, England. Then came the night involving a bucket and three bags of sugar. Read the full story →

Nurse Gina Wilson Green was found strangled in her tidy Baton Rouge home near the LSU campus with no sign of forced entry — the beginning of a hunt for a killer whose victims kept opening the door. Read the full story →

In 1972, truck driver Clive Ralph and his wife Elsie trusted their lodger, David McGreavy, to babysit their three small children while Elsie worked the pub's evening shift. What happened on Gillam Street horrified all of Britain. Read the full story →

Albert Alfonso and Paul Longworth had spent twenty quiet years together in Shepherd's Bush when Colombian adult-film performer Yostin Mosquera came to stay in June 2024 — weeks before a suitcase turned up at Clifton Suspension Bridge. Read the full story →

In 1999 Hong Kong, young mother Fan Man-yee owed triad member Chan Man-lok a debt she had already repaid — but in his telling it kept growing, until his followers came to take her from her home. Read the full story →