Unsolved Mysteries
Cases that remain open. Disappearances, murders, and crimes where the truth is still out there.
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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 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
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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 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 Amy Bradley Case: a Lifeguard Vanishes From a Cruise Ship Balcony as It Docks in Curaçao
At 5:30 a.m. on March 24, 1998, Ron Bradley saw his daughter asleep on their cabin balcony. Thirty minutes later she was gone. Twenty-eight years, a dozen sightings and a Netflix series later, Amy Bradley is still missing. Continue reading
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The Susan Powell Case: A Midnight Camping Trip, Two Fans on Wet Carpet, and a Mother Never Found
Susan Cox Powell, 28, vanished from her West Valley City home on December 6, 2009, while her husband claimed he was camping with their sons in a snowstorm. Two years later he killed the boys and himself, and her body… Continue reading
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The Circleville Letters: The Anonymous Writer Who Terrorized an Ohio Town for Two Decades
Someone in Circleville, Ohio knew everyone’s secrets, and for nearly twenty years they mailed those secrets out one poison-pen letter at a time. A man went to prison for it, the letters kept coming anyway, and no one has ever… Continue reading
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The Isdal Woman: The Coded Notes, Nine False Names, and a Body That Norway Still Cannot Identify
A stranger burned beyond recognition in a Norwegian valley, her clothing labels cut out and her past hidden behind nine false names. Fifty-five years and one forensic breakthrough later, she still has no name. Continue reading
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The Flannan Isles Lighthouse Mystery: Three Keepers, One Storm, and a Silence No One Has Ever Explained
On a wind-scoured rock in the North Atlantic, three lighthouse keepers vanished without a trace, leaving behind a stopped clock, an untouched meal, and a lamp trimmed and ready to burn. More than a century later, the sea still keeps… Continue reading
