Cold Cases
Decades-old investigations where leads went cold but families still wait for answers.
-
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
-
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
-
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
-
The Sister Cathy Cesnik Case: The Nun Who Asked the Wrong Question and the Murder Baltimore Never Solved
In November 1969, Sister Cathy Cesnik left her Baltimore apartment to buy an engagement gift and never came home. Her unsolved murder, tied to abuse allegations at Archbishop Keough High School, became the subject of Netflix’s The Keepers and still… Continue reading
-
The Sherri Rasmussen Case: an LAPD detective, a bite mark in a coroner’s freezer, and 23 years of silence
In 1986 Sherri Rasmussen’s father told LAPD detectives her killer was an ex-girlfriend with a badge, and was told there was nothing there. A swab found in a coroner’s freezer proved him right 23 years later, and the fight over… Continue reading
-
The Kristin Smart Case: 30 Years, a Podcast, a Grave Under a Deck, and a Body Still Missing
Kristin Smart walked away from a Cal Poly party in May 1996 and never reached her dorm. It took a podcast, a grave under a deck and 26 years to convict Paul Flores, and searches in 2026 still have not… Continue reading
-
They Never Came Home: The Unsolved Murder of the Grimes Sisters
On December 28, 1956, Barbara and Patricia Grimes left their Chicago home to see an Elvis Presley movie and never returned. Their bodies were found a month later in a ditch outside the city. The case triggered the largest missing… Continue reading
-
The Connecticut River Valley Killer: A Decade of Terror on the Backroads of New England
Between 1978 and 1988, at least seven women were murdered along the quiet rural highways of New Hampshire and Vermont, their bodies left in wooded terrain near the Connecticut River. The killer was never identified. One woman survived. And the… Continue reading
-
The Alphabet Murders: Rochester’s Deadliest Unsolved Mystery
Between 1971 and 1973, three young girls were abducted, sexually assaulted, and strangled in Rochester, New York — each victim sharing initials with the town where her body was found. More than fifty years later, the “Alphabet Murders” remain officially… Continue reading
-
The Oakland County Child Killer: Michigan’s Most Haunting Cold Case
Between February 1976 and March 1977, four children vanished from the comfortable suburbs of Oakland County, Michigan, only to be found days later — cared for, then killed. Fifty years on, no one has ever been charged, and the case… Continue reading
