When Sri Lankan chemist Dr. Ananda Wijewardena was found dead in his university laboratory in 1989, authorities called it suicide — but the locked door hid more questions than answers.
In wartime Serbia, a string of prominent men died from the same rare poison — thallium sulfate — and nobody was ever charged with procuring or administering it.
Two small skeletons found wrapped in a woman's aviator jacket in Vancouver's Stanley Park in 1953 remained nameless for decades — when forensic science finally identified one child, the truth was worse than the mystery.
Two bodies in a locked Noida flat — a fourteen-year-old girl and a family servant — produced India's most controversial murder case and a justice system consuming its own evidence.
A quiet fourteen-year-old genius walked out of his Doncaster home, withdrew his savings, and boarded a train to London Kings Cross — then ceased to exist entirely.
A pioneering Cuban-American artist plummeted from her 34th-floor Greenwich Village apartment after a violent argument with her minimalist sculptor husband — he was acquitted, and her ghost has haunted the art world ever since.
He killed at least five people across Northern California, mocked police in encrypted letters, and vanished — leaving two ciphers unsolved and his identity unknown for over five decades.
Two cardboard boxes on Jakarta's busiest street held a man cut into 13 bones and 180 pieces of flesh — and more than four decades later, nobody knows who he was.
Found bound and gagged in a ditch outside Enterprise, Ontario in 1989, he wore a gold chain with an evil eye pendant — and 35 years later, no one has claimed him.
Mellory Manning was brutally murdered in Christchurch on one night she returned to the streets — sixteen years later, DNA called 'Male B' still has no name.
She drowned in the Seine with a smile on her face — but forensic science says a drowned woman cannot look like that.
In August 1993, six experienced hikers from Kazakhstan died on a Siberian ridge bleeding from their eyes — the lone survivor, found covered in blood five days later, refuses to speak.