America's most celebrated architect was shot dead in front of hundreds of witnesses at the peak of New York society. The killer was a millionaire. The motive was a teenage girl. The trial divided the country.
America's master of mystery was found raving in a Baltimore gutter wearing a stranger's clothes. He died four days later without explaining where he had been. His death certificate has never been found.
A Dutch pediatric nurse was convicted of seven murders and three attempted murders based on a probability calculation that expert statisticians called nonsense. She spent six years imprisoned for deaths that were later found to have natural causes.
Natalia Estemirova spent years documenting killings, abductions, and torture in Chechnya for Memorial. On July 15, 2009, she became one of her own case files.
Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont caught the 10am bus to the beach on Australia Day 1966 — they were seen with a tall blond man, and were never seen again.
Three men dug through a federal prison wall with spoons, floated into San Francisco Bay on a raincoat raft — and were never seen again. Or were they?
A West Virginia house burns on Christmas Eve 1945. Five children vanish. No bones, no proof of death — only a severed phone line, a moved ladder, and a photograph mailed 22 years too late.
Someone walked out of the Bavarian forest and into a remote farmstead. They stayed for days before killing. They stayed for days after. No one was ever charged.
For ten weeks in 1946, a sack-masked killer terrorized a border town on moonlit weekends. A suspect was named. His wife talked. No one was ever charged.
He was found clean, laundered, and carefully arranged in a cardboard box. It took 65 years to learn his name. His killer has never been found.
Twelve dismembered victims in the ravines of Depression-era Cleveland. Eliot Ness — fresh off Capone — couldn't close it. A suspect died in custody. The killer was never named.
Three women disappeared from a Springfield home on graduation night, 1992. The doors were unlocked. The dog was untouched. A man on death row said he knew exactly where the bodies were — and took the answer with him.