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The Kouri Richins Case: A Moscow Mule, a Grief Book and a Life Sentence
In March 2022, a Utah stonemason and father of three died in his bed with five times a lethal dose of fentanyl in his blood. A year later, his wife published a children’s book about grief. Continue reading
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The Lady of the Dunes Case: Ruth Marie Terry Gets Her Name Back After 48 Years
In July 1974 a woman was found dead in the dunes near Race Point in Provincetown, Massachusetts, with nothing to say who she was. For decades, exhumations, clay busts and confessions led nowhere. Continue reading
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The Natalie Wood Case: A Night on the Splendour and a Ruling That Changed
On Thanksgiving weekend 1981, Natalie Wood went missing from a yacht moored off Catalina Island. The original ruling took days; the questions have lasted decades. Continue reading
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The Samuel Little Case: 93 Confessions, a Drug Warrant and the Women No One Counted
In 2012, a 72-year-old drifter was picked up in Louisville on an old drug warrant. What his DNA and his memory revealed changed how the FBI counts murder. Continue reading
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The Jennifer Dulos Case: A Connecticut Mother of Five, a Bloody Garage and No Body
On May 24, 2019, writer and mother of five Jennifer Farber Dulos dropped her children at school in New Canaan, Connecticut, and was never seen again. That evening, city cameras in Hartford recorded what investigators would call the next step. Continue reading
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The Sandra Hemme Case: A Sedated Confession, a Police Suspect and 43 Lost Years
In November 1980, library worker Patricia Jeschke was found dead in her St. Joseph, Missouri, apartment. Within a month, a 20-year-old psychiatric patient had confessed, while evidence pointing to a police officer sat in a file. Continue reading
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The Murdaugh Case: Two Life Sentences, a Clerk’s Whispers and a Retrial in 2027
On June 7, 2021, a South Carolina lawyer from a family of prosecutors called 911 to report his wife and son shot on the family hunting property. Five years later, the case is still not settled, and much of the… Continue reading
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The Delimar Vera Case: A Mother Knew Her Baby Survived the Fire, and Six Years Later She Proved It
In 1997, ten-day-old Delimar Vera supposedly died in a Philadelphia house fire, though no remains were ever found. Six years later, her mother spotted a little girl at a birthday party and quietly pulled five hairs from her head. Continue reading
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The Fred and Rose West Case: How a Gloucester House Hid Twelve Victims for Two Decades
In February 1994, police dug up a garden in Gloucester, England, looking for a missing 16-year-old. What they found at 25 Cromwell Street revealed two decades of murder by Fred and Rose West, and a string of chances the system… Continue reading
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The Ellen Greenberg Case: 20 Stab Wounds, a Latched Door, and a Suicide Ruling Her Parents Never Accepted
In January 2011, teacher Ellen Greenberg was found stabbed 20 times inside her latched Philadelphia apartment, and the death was ruled a suicide. A settlement, a 2025 re-examination and reported federal scrutiny have kept the ruling in dispute. Continue reading
