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.
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.
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.
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.
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?
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.
Someone lit the stairwell of a New Orleans gay bar on a Sunday evening in 1973 — thirty-two people burned, and the city looked away as if nothing had happened.
On a January morning in 1993, Turkey's most fearless journalist turned the ignition of his Renault 12 and vanished in a blast of C-4 -- the masterminds never identified.
A Russian diplomat accredited as a second secretary was found dead on the sidewalk outside the Berlin embassy at dawn — German intelligence believed he was an FSB operative, the embassy refused an autopsy, and the body was repatriated before anyone could ask questions.
In the autumn of 1982, seven people in the Chicago suburbs swallowed Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with potassium cyanide — and the killer who put them on the shelves was never identified.
A fifteen-year-old Belgian girl missed her evening bus in Antwerp and was never seen alive again — her strangled body was found in the port six months later, and anonymous letters, a self-confessed killer, and whispers of a paedophile network have never produced a conviction.
When fragments of flayed human skin surfaced in the Vistula River near Kraków in early 1999, they led investigators to a missing university student — and into one of Poland's most disturbing unsolved murders.