On the night of April 11, 1981, three people were beaten and stabbed to death in Cabin 28 in the tiny resort town of Keddie, California, while younger children slept nearby and survived. A twelve-year-old girl vanished that night. The… Continue reading

In the days before March 31, 1922, a Bavarian farmer found footprints leading to his house but none leading away. Days later, all six people on the farm were dead — and whoever killed them stayed for days afterward, feeding… Continue reading

A seventeen-year-old high school senior was strangled in Baltimore in January 1999. The boy convicted of killing her spent twenty-three years in prison, became the subject of the most-downloaded true-crime podcast ever made, and walked out a free man in… Continue reading

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

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

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

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