Prathamesh Kabra

389 Articles

Christian Hall left Corpus Christi on a yacht in 2005. He never came back.

On Nov. 24, 2005, Christian Hall, 15, left Corpus Christi, Texas, aboard a 74-foot sailboat named the Gypsy II. He…

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Ten Days Inside the Women’s Asylum by Nellie Bly: Cold Baths, Hunger, Beatings, and Silence

Nellie Bly took an assignment that required her to surrender control of her own life. She planned to enter New…

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The Missing Road Trip of Leah Roberts

Early on March 18, 2000, a couple jogging along Canyon Creek Road, off the Mount Baker Highway, noticed clothing near…

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Death in Apartment 603: The Ellen Greenberg Case

Snow packed the sidewalks of Manayunk on Jan. 26, 2011, the kind of storm that quiets a city by force.…

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The Bizarre Disappearance of Liu Huijun and Her Daughter, Who Vanished Inside a Taiwanese Building

The next morning, the building manager began with something that should have stayed small: coats and sandals abandoned in an…

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The Disappearance of Laureen Rahn

Judith Rahn climbed the stairs to the third floor on Merrimack Street a little after 1 a.m. and found the…

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How a Psychologist Tried to Manufacture Depression

In Madison, Wisconsin, a graduate student slid a pyramid-shaped lid into place above a stainless-steel trough. Inside, a young rhesus…

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Inside the Snowtown Murders

On a Friday in late May 1999, a crime reporter in Adelaide took what sounded like a prank call from…

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How a Small-Town Doctor Manipulated Blood Tests, Stalled a Sexual Assault Case, and Forced Investigators to Rethink DNA Evidence

John Schneeberger arrived in Canada in 1987 with his family and set up life in Kipling, Saskatchewan, a farming town…

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Béla Kiss and the Cinkota Drum Murders

In spring 1916, a rented house on Kossuth Lajos Street in Cinkota stopped being just another workshop. Men pried open…

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The Sacred Band of Thebes and the Army That Changed Greek Warfare

The Sacred Band of Thebes was an elite infantry unit in fourth century BCE Thebes. Ancient writers describe 300 selected…

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The Unsolved Killing of Brian Egg

Brian Egg, a 65-year-old San Francisco resident, vanished from his South of Market home in 2018. Weeks later, investigators found…

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Audrey May Herron vanished on a drive that should have taken minutes

On Aug. 29, 2002, Audrey May Herron finished her shift and left Catskill, New York, at about 11 p.m. She…

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Dorothy Jane Scott: Disappearance and Unsolved Murder (1980–1984)

Dorothy Jane Scott was 32 when she vanished after a late-night hospital trip in Orange County, California. Her station wagon…

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The Death of Danny Casolaro, and the File That Did Not Come Back

Trigger warning: This article contains references to suicide and self-harm and includes authentic crime scene sketches related to a death.…

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