Volume 3

Jessica Wongso arrived oddly early at Jakarta's trendy Olivier restaurant and ordered a Vietnamese iced coffee for her old college friend Mirna Salihin — a drink investigators would later determine contained a lethal dose of cyanide. Read the full story →

London heroin dealer Ken Avery — 'Captain Cash' to the underworld — lost everything when he turned informant, so he changed his name to Ken Regan and fixed his ambitions on a wealthy Heathrow freight importer named Amarjit 'Neil' Chohan. Read the full story →

Oxford student Rachel McLean met charming bartender John Tanner one Blackpool summer, and his stream of love letters grew as intense as his frustration with the distance — then Rachel missed an appointment she never would have missed. Read the full story →

Two days before her high school graduation, Shari Faye Smith's little blue Chevette sat idling at the end of her family's long South Carolina driveway, the driver's door open and the mail scattered — and seventeen-year-old Shari was gone. Read the full story →

On Maui's laid-back North Shore, red-haired Charli Scott called herself 'a unicorn among beasts' — until the night she drove out past Ke'anae to help her ex-boyfriend Steven Capobianco with his stalled truck and never came home. Read the full story →

In February 2001, two boys fishing in London's Regent's Canal snagged a duffel bag weighted with bricks — the first of six bags divers would recover, holding a woman whose missing head, hands, and feet made her nearly impossible to identify. Read the full story →

Petite French stylist Valerie Pape and her brash bar-owner husband Ira Pomerantz were fixtures of Scottsdale society — until a witness saw a blonde woman in high heels and gloves backing a blue Jaguar up to a supermarket dumpster. Read the full story →

Six-times-married showgirl Marjorie Orbin finally landed the comfortable Scottsdale life with art dealer Jay Orbin — then Jay vanished on the road, and a blue Rubbermaid container turned up at the edge of the desert. Read the full story →

In 1986, months apart, young Michella Welch and Jennifer Bastian were murdered near Tacoma parks just three miles from each other — crimes so similar police assumed one killer, until DNA told a stranger story that took decades to finish. Read the full story →

Days after her Kalispell, Montana wedding, reluctant bride Jordan Graham was confiding doubts to friends — and then her new husband Cody Johnson disappeared, followed by a mysterious email claiming he had fallen from a cliff in Glacier National Park. Read the full story →

Neville Heath charmed postwar England posing as a decorated airman with aristocratic names — but when Margery Gardner was found dead in a London hotel room, the trail led to the crowded seaside resort of Bournemouth, where Heath was already courting someone new. Read the full story →