Prathamesh Kabra
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…
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…
Inside the Snowtown Murders
On a Friday in late May 1999, a crime reporter in Adelaide took what sounded like a prank call from…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
Man with the world’s worst hunger ate for 15, swallowed live animals, and was forced to poop out secret spy messages during war missions
Tarrare was born around 1772 near Lyon, although even the name is uncertain in the sources, which sometimes treat it…
The Mysterious Disappearance of Marilyn Bergeron
At 4:03 p.m. on Feb. 17, 2008, Marilyn Bergeron made a small purchase at a Café Dépôt in Saint Romuald,…
Biosphere 2 Was Designed as a Self-Contained Version of Earth. From 1991 to 1993, Eight People Lived Inside It and Documented What Happened Next
Eight people walked into a sealed glass world in the Arizona desert on September 26, 1991, carrying the weight of…
Inside the Mysterious Disappearance of Dr. Margaret Mary Kilcoyne
Dr. Margaret Kilcoyne went to bed around 10:00 pm Friday, January 25, 1980. Her brother, Leo Kilcoyne, was staying at…
Inside the Unfinished Investigation Into Kristen Modafferi’s Disappearance
Kristen Modafferi was heading into what she believed would be the best summer of her life. She had just wrapped…