Volume 5

Eleven-year-old Hana Alemu was adopted from Ethiopia into Larry and Carri Williams' strict homeschooling household of nine in Sedro-Woolley, Washington — a rescue rooted in faith, and in the harsh discipline of a book called To Train Up A Child. Read the full story →

Journalist Kim Wall skipped her own going-away party for a two-hour ride on inventor 'Rocket' Peter Madsen's homemade submarine, the UC3 Nautilus — and by the next day the sub was at the bottom of Copenhagen harbor and Madsen's story was already shifting. Read the full story →

On Friday the 13th of April 2012, Brittany Killgore was packing to leave Fallbrook, California when Marine Louis Perez offered a Hornblower dinner cruise in San Diego — an evening entangled with Dorothy Maraglino, a woman who despised her. Read the full story →

In a Pacific Northwest decade haunted by vanishing girls — several later confirmed as Ted Bundy victims — fourteen-year-old Kathy Devine's 1973 disappearance near Olympia sat unsolved for decades, filed under the wrong killer. Read the full story →

Ed Gingerich never fit the plain, machine-less life of his Old Order Amish community, so Bishop Rudy Shetler arranged a marriage to his niece Katie — a match that ended in the tragedy of March 18, 1993, one so dark much of Rockdale Township's Amish moved away. Read the full story →

After a Morrissey concert in June 1991, Denise Huber's gray Honda Accord was found abandoned on the Corona del Mar highway with a flat rear tire, just miles from her Newport Beach home — and for three years there was no trace of her at all. Read the full story →

Sally Challen was fifteen when she fell for car dealer Richard Challen, and she stayed devoted through four decades of his cruelty and control — until a Saturday lunch at their Surrey home ended with the hammer she had carried in her handbag. Read the full story →

In September 1994, nine-year-old Penny Davis wandered off along Patterson Creek near tiny Tonasket, Washington and vanished without a trace — the beginning of a case that led to a man who believed himself a werewolf. Read the full story →

Lonely widower Fred Weeks proposed within days of white-haired, rosy-cheeked 'Millie' knocking on his Nova Scotia door — and on the honeymoon ferry to Newfoundland, he suddenly couldn't remember how to start his own car. Read the full story →

Behind the Versace wardrobe and the nice car, Scarborough house painter Brett Ryan was drowning in sixty thousand dollars of debt — but Brett had a plan, one that began at a Toronto bank counter and later involved a youth-model crossbow. Read the full story →

On Holy Saturday 1980 — her seventy-second birthday — Sister Margaret Ann Pahl went early to prepare the chapel at Toledo's Mercy Hospital, intending to confront Father Gerald Robinson about his sermon; a bloodstained cloth on the chapel floor was the first sign something was wrong. Read the full story →

On Halloween night 1984, accountant Mel Dyson worked late at his Huntington Beach office while his common-law wife Dixie kept to her routine — a routine that, along with two men named George Ira Lamb and Enrico Vasquez, would draw hard questions from detectives. Read the full story →