Brothers Home: The Busan ‘Welfare Center’ Where Police Earned Points for Every Person
Police earned points for every “vagrant” sent to Busan’s Brothers Home. At least 657 died. The owner served two and a half years.
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Erin Patterson’s Mushroom Lunch: Four Grey Plates, One Orange. Three Dead. Today, Life Without Parole
Leongatha, 2023: four guests ate beef Wellington at Erin Patterson’s table, and three died of death cap poisoning. On 30 October 2026 her appeal failed and she got life without parole.
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Silkyara Tunnel Collapse: 41 Men Trapped 17 Days, Freed by Rat-Hole Miners
On Diwali morning 2023, a Himalayan road tunnel in Uttarakhand caved in and trapped 41 workers. Giant drills broke. After 17 days, a team of rat-hole miners dug them out by hand.
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One Sip of Iced Coffee, Then She Collapsed. Jessica Wongso Got 20 Years, but No Camera Saw the Poison Go In
In 2016, Mirna Salihin died after one sip of iced coffee in a Jakarta mall cafe. Her friend Jessica Wongso was convicted of cyanide murder, though no camera showed the poison going in and there was no full autopsy. Netflix’s Ice Cold reopened the debate.
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They Killed 28 People in Belgian Supermarkets, Sometimes for Coffee. The Brabant Killers Were Never Caught
Between 1982 and 1985, a masked gang killed 28 people in raids on Belgian shops and supermarkets, sometimes for champagne, coffee and cooking oil. Forty years, 593 DNA samples and 40 exhumations later, nobody knows who they were.
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Convicted of Murder With No Body. Then Cédric Jubillar Led Police to Delphine
A French nurse vanished on a curfew night in 2020. Her husband was convicted of murder without a body. In July 2026 he confessed and led gendarmes to a field near Mailhoc.
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Ted Bundy Was Never Charged With Killing the Police Chief’s Daughter. 52 Years Later, DNA Proved He Did
In October 1974, a Utah police chief’s 17-year-old daughter vanished after leaving a pizza restaurant. Ted Bundy was a suspect, but nobody was ever named. In 2026, a second girl’s DNA finally closed the case.
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Police Said They Found Shayna Feinman Alive in Mexico. The Next Day, It Wasn’t Her
Tijuana police announced they had found Shayna Feinman, the Arizona woman missing since March 2024, alive. Her sister didn’t recognize the voice. Four days later, physical evidence said it was someone else. Two men were once charged in her disappearance; the charges were dropped, and she is still missing.
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Divers Searched England’s Deepest Lake for a Missing Woman. They Found a Different One
In 1984, divers searching Wast Water for a missing French student found a bundle that had been in the lake for eight years. The Lady in the Lake case: Margaret Hogg, her pilot husband, and the deep water that almost kept her.
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Police Mailed Him a Letter About His Stolen Car. The Envelope Led to a 1986 Murder Charge
In 1986, Mary Ann Turner was searching Spokane’s streets for her runaway daughter. She was found strangled in an alley. Forty years later, police say a licked envelope tied a 74-year-old man to her death.
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Martha Moxley: Killed on Mischief Night With a Golf Club From the Kennedy Cousins’ House
On the night before Halloween 1975, 15-year-old Martha Moxley went out to play pranks in Greenwich, Connecticut. A Kennedy cousin was convicted, freed, and never retried. Today no one stands convicted.
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She Faked Twins for a Bachelor Star. The Ultrasound Belonged to a Grieving Mother
She told former Bachelor star Clayton Echard she was pregnant with his twins. There were never any babies, and the ultrasound belonged to another mother. The Laura Owens case, from paternity suit to sentencing.
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Battle Ground 1962 Double Murder Solved: The DNA Came Back Two Days After He Died
Detectives were about to seek an arrest warrant. The man they wanted had died two days earlier. How a rearview-mirror fingerprint and a piece of twine solved a 1962 double murder near Battle Ground, Washington.
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The Purse Strap: How Chicago Police Found Who Killed 8-Year-Old Gloria Kowalewicz in 1960, and Why It Was One of Their Own
In 1960, an 8-year-old girl walking to church in Chicago never arrived. 65 years later, a fingerprint on her purse strap led to the killer: a former Chicago police detective.
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The Tylenol Murders: Seven Dead in Chicago, 31 Million Bottles Recalled, and Still No Killer
In 1982, someone laced painkiller capsules with cyanide and put them back on Chicago-area shelves. Seven people died. More than 40 years later, no one has been charged.
