Prathamesh Kabra

399 Articles

Miriam Rodríguez Martínez: The Mother Who Built Her Own Case File in San Fernando

San Fernando, Tamaulipas sits in Mexico’s northeast corridor, a place long tied to cartel violence and mass-grave discoveries, and that…

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Gareth Williams “Spy in a Bag” Case File

Gareth Williams was a 31-year-old GCHQ codebreaker on secondment to MI6 when he was found dead on 23 August 2010,…

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Elaine O’Hara and the evidence that surfaced from the water

The moment the case shifted did not begin with a suspect or a confession. It began on a wooded stretch…

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The Five Minute Silence in Kendall: The Disappearance of William Tyrrell

On a spring morning in Kendall, three year old William Tyrrell sat on a verandah with crayons, dressed as Spider…

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Osbaston House: The Night Christopher Foster Lit the Match

Firefighters heading into Maesbrook before dawn on Aug. 26, 2008, ran into a strange obstacle at the gates of Osbaston…

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The Blue Fugates: The Kentucky Family Myth That Turned Out to Be a Blood Disorder

In 1975, a baby boy arrived in a Kentucky hospital with skin so darkly blue that staff feared an oxygen…

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The Suitcases the State Told Him to Destroy

In the spring of 1995, a curator from the New York State Museum climbed several flights of stairs inside a…

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Jaycee Dugard Was Missing for 18 Years. She Reappeared in a Parole Office

On Aug. 26, 2009, Phillip Garrido walked into a parole office in Northern California with a woman and two girls,…

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Eleven children from related parents were born inside the incest family that startled the nation

In a rural farming valley, two great-great grandparents had established a horrifying incest cult. Generations of inbreeding left their progeny…

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Madeleine McCann case update: Operation Grange continues as German and Portuguese leads shift again

The dirt road into Atalaia, on the outskirts of Lagos, does not look like the front door to a global…

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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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