A British mother checked her daughter’s bed at a Portuguese resort on the night of May 3, 2007, and found it empty. Madeleine McCann was almost four years old. Eighteen years later, German prosecutors have publicly named the man they… Continue reading

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

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

On Thanksgiving Eve 1971, a man in a clip-on tie hijacked a Boeing 727, collected $200,000, and parachuted into a Pacific Northwest storm. Fifty-five years later, the FBI has no body, no suspect, no answers — only a few rotting… Continue reading

For thirteen years, the bodies of women appeared along Gilgo Beach on Long Island’s south shore. Police had DNA. They had patterns. They had nothing. Then a Google search broke the case open. Continue reading