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.
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.
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.
A team crossed the Pacific to pull Amelia Earhart’s plane out of a lagoon. It was a pile of trees. What the 2026 Nikumaroro expedition found, and why the search still is not over.
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.
Two federal agents watched a black triangle rise silently over a western ridge. On thermal, it had no engine heat. The next morning, there was no trace. Inside the Pentagon’s seventh UFO file release.
In September 2026, a 14-second video of lights over Tehran went viral. It surfaced almost exactly 50 years after Iranian fighter jets chased a UFO over the same city and lost their weapons.
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.
A trail camera near El Paso caught something pale and hairless climbing a farm wall. A famous UFO investigator called it a predator. The authorities say no one ever reported it.
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.
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.
On Easter Sunday 1967, Jim Thompson, the American who made Thai silk famous, went for a walk in the Malaysian hills. More than 500 searchers never found a trace of him.
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.