Cold Case
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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
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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
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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 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
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The Natalee Holloway Case: the Aruba beach, the $250,000 sting, and the confession that took 18 years
Natalee Holloway left an Aruba nightclub at 1:30 a.m. on May 30, 2005, and was never seen again. Eighteen years, one FBI sting and a second murder later, Joran van der Sloot told a Birmingham courtroom what he did on… 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