Real crimes, real victims, real investigations: solved and unsolved cases retold as illustrated stories.
In 1967, a man climbed through a window in Bristol and left a palm print on the glass. Fifty-eight years later, DNA from a blue skirt kept in an evidence box finally gave it a name.
In 2006, Chris Jarvis left for work in rural Australia and vanished, the day before a $2,210 rent hearing. Twenty years later, a jury found his landlord, a former police officer, guilty of murder. His body has never been found.
In 2006, Rey Rivera ran out of his Baltimore home after a phone call. Eight days later he was found beneath a man-sized hole in a hotel roof. His glasses were not even scratched.
In 2004, cheap baby formula with almost no protein was sold in village shops around Fuyang, China. Babies starved while being fed. Four years later, the melamine scandal followed.
In 1880, a crowd of neighbours killed five members of the Donnelly family in Ontario and burned their farmhouse. A boy saw it all from under a bed. No one was ever convicted.
In 1932, a silent stranger led the Mounties on a 48-day chase across the frozen Arctic. Nearly a century and a DNA investigation later, no one knows who he was.
For up to seven years, Thai garment workers were held behind razor wire in a Los Angeles suburb, sewing clothes for American stores. One escape and a hand-drawn map ended it.
A Florida police officer found a man dead on a welfare check. Investigators say he then spent nearly four years quietly taking over the dead man’s house.
In 2007, teenage boys vanished from a Chinese train station and ended up in illegal brick kilns. The police did not find most of them. Their parents did.
A homeless man was sold to a salt farm on a remote Korean island. Escape was impossible, because everyone on the island was watching. Then he drew a map and mailed it to his mother.
In 1991 a calm, polite man called a Seoul family more than 60 times about their kidnapped son. Police recorded his voice. He was never found. The true story behind Voice of a Murderer.
Fishermen were locked in a cage on a remote Indonesian island, and the fish they caught reached American supermarkets. The true story behind the AP’s Seafood from Slaves investigation.
Police once stopped him while he wore a victim’s watch, and let him go. The true story of South Korea’s Hwaseong serial murders, the case behind Memories of Murder.