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The Robert Durst Case: A Missing Wife, a Murdered Friend, and the Hot Mic That Undid Him
Kathie Durst vanished in 1982, Susan Berman was shot in 2000, and a Texas jury acquitted Robert Durst of a third killing. A documentary hot mic finally caught him in 2015, but the full courtroom reckoning outlived him. Continue reading
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The Olof Palme Case: A Prime Minister Shot on a Stockholm Street and 40 Years Without an Answer
Sweden’s prime minister was shot walking home from the movies with his wife in 1986, with no bodyguards in sight. Four decades, one overturned conviction, and one dead suspect later, the country still argues about who pulled the trigger. Continue reading
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The Crystal Rogers Case: A Flat Tire on the Bluegrass Parkway and a Ten-Year Wait for Justice
Crystal Rogers, a Bardstown mother of five, vanished on July 3, 2015, her car left on the Bluegrass Parkway with a flat tire. In 2025, boyfriend Brooks Houck was convicted of her murder. Her body has never been found. Continue reading
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The Meredith Kercher Case: A Murder in Perugia the World Remembers by the Wrong Name
Meredith Kercher, a 21-year-old British student, was murdered in Perugia in 2007. The flawed investigation made Amanda Knox famous, but the man convicted of the killing walked free in 2021 — and faced a new trial by 2026. Continue reading
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The Ruby Franke Case: How the 8 Passengers YouTube Mom Went From 2.3 Million Subscribers to a Utah Prison
Ruby Franke filmed her six children for 2.3 million YouTube subscribers. On August 30, 2023, her emaciated 12-year-old son escaped through a window in Ivins, Utah. What followed changed her family — and Utah law. Continue reading
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The Dupont de Ligonnès Case: A Family Buried Under the Terrace and the Father France Cannot Find
In April 2011, police found Agnès Dupont de Ligonnès and her four children buried under the family terrace in Nantes. Her husband Xavier vanished days earlier, last seen leaving a budget hotel on foot, and fifteen years later France is… Continue reading
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The Sherri Papini Case: A 22-Day Kidnapping Hoax, a Brand on Her Shoulder, and a Story That Keeps Changing
Sherri Papini vanished on a jog near Redding in November 2016 and reappeared 22 days later, chained and branded, on Thanksgiving morning. DNA proved she had been with an ex-boyfriend the whole time. Now she insists the kidnapping was real… Continue reading
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The Hwaseong Murders: How DNA Named Lee Chun-jae 33 Years Later, and Freed the Wrong Man
Ten women and girls were murdered in Hwaseong, South Korea, between 1986 and 1991, and the case inspired “Memories of Murder.” In 2019, DNA finally named Lee Chun-jae — too late to charge him, and 20 years too late for… Continue reading
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The Susan Smith Case: Nine Days of Lies, Two Boys in John D. Long Lake, and a Parole Board’s Answer
For nine days in 1994, America hunted a carjacker who never existed. Then Susan Smith confessed that her sons, 3-year-old Michael and 14-month-old Alex, were at the bottom of John D. Long Lake, and Union, South Carolina, has never stopped… Continue reading
