Cold Case
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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
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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 Samuel Little Case: 93 Confessions, a Drug Warrant and the Women No One Counted
In 2012, a 72-year-old drifter was picked up in Louisville on an old drug warrant. What his DNA and his memory revealed changed how the FBI counts murder. 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 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 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 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
