A robotic woman's voice has been broadcasting encrypted five-digit codes from Cuba since the 1960s. The FBI copied the decryption software from a spy's apartment. The codes convicted a network. The station is still on the air.
A seventeen-year-old choir singer vanished from a quiet Danish train station at four in the morning. Her body surfaced in a lake on Christmas Eve. For seven years, degraded DNA and grainy CCTV footage kept the case frozen -- until a kidnapped child led police to a roll of tape that changed everything.
A 1980 fire killed 153 elderly women at Kingston's Eventide Home. The phone lines had been cut. Four men were seen fleeing. No one was ever charged.
He entered the subway at 57th Street after teaching his last class at Columbia. By dawn, he was on a plane to the Dominican Republic, drugged and unconscious. His body has never been found.
For five years a killer stalked women through rural South Korea. He vanished for three decades — until a DNA database matched a prisoner already serving life.
She sang in the choir since she was nine. The pastor said God wanted her to marry his brother. When she tried to leave, she disappeared — and thirteen years later, her body has still never been found.
Three teenagers stabbed to death in a tent on a Finnish lakeshore in 1960. The survivor was charged forty-four years later and acquitted.
Morocco's top dissident was lured to Boulevard Saint-Germain in 1965 and forced into an unmarked car. Six decades later, his body has never been found.
Georgia's prime minister was found dead in a rented Tbilisi apartment in 2005. The official cause was a faulty heater. The FBI's own data contradicts it.
On a stormy September night in 2002, a Senegalese government ferry carrying nearly four times its capacity capsized in five minutes. Of roughly 2,000 passengers, 64 survived. Divers heard the trapped screaming inside the hull but lacked the tools to cut through. No one has ever been charged.
On July 5, 1962, Algeria declared independence and Oran erupted in celebration. By nightfall, hundreds of Europeans lay dead in the streets. Sixty years later, no one agrees on the death toll, who gave the order, or why 18,000 French soldiers stood by and did nothing.
Four gunmen walked into a cabinet meeting in Rangoon and slaughtered a nation's founding fathers. One man was hanged for ordering the hit, but the weapons came from British armories and the true conspiracy may have stretched far beyond a jealous politician.