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The Atlanta Child Murders: Thirty Black Children, One Conviction, and the Doubt That Never Left
Between 1979 and 1981, at least thirty Black children, teenagers, and young adults were murdered in Atlanta. The man eventually convicted in two of those killings was Black, was prosecuted using fiber evidence that had never before decided a homicide… Continue reading
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BTK: The Killer Who Couldn’t Stop Talking
For seventeen years, Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Wichita and slipped back into the life of a compliance officer, scout leader, and church council president. He stopped for thirteen years. Then in 2004, for reasons no one fully understands,… Continue reading
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The Zodiac Killer: The Cipher Murders That Outlived Their Author
Between 1968 and 1969, a man calling himself Zodiac murdered at least five people in Northern California. He sent the newspapers letters in code. One of his ciphers took fifty-one years to crack. He has never been identified. The case… Continue reading
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JonBenét Ramsey: Thirty Years of Wrong Theories in a Boulder Basement
For three decades, the strangling of a six-year-old girl in her family’s Boulder basement on Christmas night 1996 has been America’s most picked-over unsolved homicide. The investigation made every mistake an investigation can make. The DNA on her clothing belongs… Continue reading
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Lizzie Borden: The Forty-Whacks Murder That America Never Settled
On a hot August morning in 1892, the wealthiest banker in Fall River, Massachusetts, was hacked to death in his own parlor. His wife had been killed upstairs an hour earlier. The only adults known to be in the house… Continue reading
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America’s Unknown Child: The 65-Year Mystery of the Boy in the Box
For sixty-five years, the small boy whose body was found in a cardboard bassinet box in a wooded Philadelphia field in 1957 was known only as ‘America’s Unknown Child.’ In December 2022, after one of the longest unsolved-identity cases in… Continue reading
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The Black Dahlia: Hollywood’s Darkest Unsolved Murder
On a January morning in 1947, a young mother walking her daughter to the playground in a Los Angeles neighborhood thought she saw a broken department-store mannequin in a vacant lot. It was the body of Elizabeth Short, twenty-two years… Continue reading
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Golden State Killer: Forty Years of Terror in the California Suburbs
Between 1973 and 1986, one man committed at least 120 burglaries, 50 rapes, and 13 murders across the state of California. He worked under three different names. He was, for part of that time, a serving police officer. And he… Continue reading
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How DNA Genealogy Is Cracking America’s Coldest Cases
In April 2018, a retired cold-case investigator and a part-time genealogist used a public genealogy website to identify the Golden State Killer after 42 years. Since then, the same technique has solved more than 600 cases that everyone had given… Continue reading
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The Tylenol Murders: Seven Deaths That Changed an Industry Forever
In the fall of 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol laced with potassium cyanide. Forty-four years later, no one has been charged. The case rewrote how America packages medicine — and remains one of… Continue reading
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