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October 1985. Seventeen-year-old Missy Avila goes for a walk in the Angeles National Forest with two of her closest friends. Three days later, hikers find her body face down in a creek, weighted down by a massive log. What makes this case absolutely…
December 6th, 2014. A 19-year-old walks toward firefighters on a rural Mississippi back road. She's wearing only her underwear. Ninety-three percent of her body is burned. And before she dies the next day, she tries to tell them who did this to her.…
June 18th, 2010. A woman drives down a dark Texas road with a body in her car. Five days later, that same woman will sit in court fighting to keep her kids. But the one witness who could have testified against her? She's already dead. This is the st…
You know that feeling when you realize someone's been lying to you? Now take that lie and stretch it out for ten months. Fake ultrasounds. A gender reveal party. A baby shower. And imagine what happens when that person decides the only way t…
In September 1864, a Confederate guerrilla named Bloody Bill Anderson stopped a train in Centralia, Missouri, lined up 22 unarmed Union soldiers, and had them executed one by one. Then he scalped them. An hour later, he ambushed a Union comp…
Between 1978 and 1983, Dennis Nilsen murdered at least twelve young men in North London. He kept their bodies as companions, burned them in his garden, and when that became impossible, tried flushing them down the toilet. Police ignored surv…
There's a stretch of Interstate 75 in Tennessee where, in January 1985, they found a young woman's body down an embankment. Bound. Strangled. Pregnant. Red hair. She'd stay nameless for 33 years. They called her Campbell County Jane Doe. Her…
Sixty-four years old. Retired security engineer. Been burglarized so many times he's sleeping with a gun. Then on Thanksgiving 2012, two teenagers break into his basement. Byron Smith was ready. He'd moved his truck to make the house look em…
October 15th, 2018. A 911 call comes in from a rural Wisconsin home. When deputies arrive four minutes later, they find two parents shot dead and their 13-year-old daughter gone. The killer was twenty seconds down the road when police flew p…
November 1987. A young family in rural Illinois was weeks away from escaping a wave of unsolved murders. Keith didn't show up for work. Police found his pregnant wife, his toddler son, and a newborn baby girl dead in their waterbed. Keith was in a f…
August 9th, 2017. Stillwater, Oklahoma. A man walks into a bail bonds office thinking he's there to talk about selling his car. Minutes later, he's climbing out a window, trying to escape. Then a gunshot. He falls to the pavement outside, dying from…
In the summer of 1985, Southern California became a place where people slept with guns under their pillows and left every light in the house on. Because Richard Ramirez didn't care who you were. Didn't matter if you were 79 years old or six.…
Picture a neonatal nurse convicted of murdering seven babies. The evidence seemed solid. The case seemed closed. Then 14 international medical experts reviewed every single death and said wait, no crime was committed here. What actually killed these…
January 31st, 2012. A doorbell rings in Madison, South Dakota. Norman Johnson, age 72, walks to his front door. The man standing there asks Norman to confirm his identity. Norman says yes. And then everything Norman built over seven decades …
May 13th, 2011. A six-year-old boy checks out of a Wisconsin water park resort with his mother. Four hours later, she's spotted alone at a grocery store. By morning, she's dead. The note she left behind has kept the FBI searching for over a decade. …
What would you do if the person you loved most in the world was the one who planned your murder? Terry Caffey survived five gunshots, a burning house, and the loss of his entire family. But nothing prepared him for what came next: learning his own d…
In 1968, a young woman selling encyclopedias door-to-door knocked on the wrong house in Portland, Oregon. The man who answered seemed interested in buying her books. He invited her inside his garage. She was never seen alive again. What happened in …
October 24th, 1988. Greenfield, Massachusetts. A 19-year-old grocery clerk puts on a hockey mask, grabs a knife, and walks to his victim's house. He's about to make his favorite horror movie a reality. The victim? An 18-year-old college student who …
November 1938. Halifax, England. For two weeks, an entire town believed they were being hunted by a razor-wielding maniac. Businesses shut down. Mobs formed. An innocent man died. But here's what nobody saw coming: the attacker they were hun…
Twenty-four bodies pulled from Houston's bayous in under a year. Social media exploded with serial killer theories. A promising college student vanishes after a night out, only to be found days later in the water with no signs of trauma. But here's …
Easter Sunday, 1990. A couple playing license plate games on a back road in Michigan. An aggressive driver in a beat-up van. And a bloody sheet at an abandoned schoolhouse. What Ray and Marie Thornton saw that day would help solve a murder, …
A teenager with a backwards name for murder. Six lives taken in nine months. Three kids watching their father shot down while waiting for a puppy. This is the story of the allegations against Antonio Reyes, and the four-year investigation that prose…
Between 1968 and 1985, someone hunted young couples in the hills outside Florence, Italy. Same gun. Same ritual. Sixteen victims. The police arrested the wrong people again and again while bodies kept piling up. In 2024, DNA evidence proved what eve…
In 1893, a pharmacist in Chicago built a hotel specifically designed to kill his guests. He installed gas lines in the bedrooms, secret passages in the walls, and a crematorium in the basement. His victims disappeared during the World's Fair, and th…