Prathamesh Kabra

308 Articles

She Vanished in Florida, Was Buried in New York, and Named a Stranger for 35 Years

On the morning of November 10, 1979, a farmer in Caledonia, New York, walked into his field and noticed something…

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911 Operator Was Fired for Bleeding at Work, and the Court Said It Was Her Fault

Alisha Coleman spent nearly a decade taking 911 calls in Georgia. Her job was intense, her hours long, and like…

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She Vanished in Los Angeles in 1969. No One Looked for Her. It Took 46 Years to Find Out Who She Was.

Reet Jurvetson’s body was dumped just fifteen feet down a canyon off Mulholland Drive. Close enough to be found. Far…

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The Woman Who Burned Alive With No Name

On a cold morning in late November 1970, a man and his two young daughters set out on a hike…

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The Woman Buried in the Dunes and the Man Who Erased Her

The summer air along Race Point in 1974 was thick and quiet. On July 26, a girl walking near Provincetown…

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The Girl in the Suitcases: A Mystery That Took 44 Years to Solve

It was the kind of discovery no one forgets. On December 20, 1976, just before the holidays, a teenage boy…

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She Was Fired for Being Too Attractive And the Court Said That’s Okay

Melissa Nelson had worked at the same Iowa dental clinic for over a decade. She never showed up late, never…

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The Heiress Who Vanished in Broad Daylight: What Really Happened to Dorothy Arnold?

Dorothy Harriet Camille Arnold had everything money could buy. Born in 1885 into one of Manhattan’s most prominent families, she…

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The Keddie Cabin Murders: What Was Left in That Room

On the morning of April 12, 1981, a 14-year-old girl walked into her family's rented cabin in the rural resort…

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The Nun, the Knife, and the Silence

The chapel at Mercy Hospital was supposed to be a place of prayer. A quiet room behind heavy doors, where…

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A child steps into Manhattan’s morning

On 25 May 1979, six-year-old Etan Kalil Patz pushed open the cast-iron door of 113 Prince Street wearing a blue…

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America’s Unknown Child: The Boy in the Box Mystery

The day Philadelphia lost its innocence It was February 25, 1957, when a young man walking through a weedy lot…

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Ricky McCormicm and the Unsolved Code that Mocked the FBI

He Died Alone. His Pockets Didn’t. In the summer of 1999, a man’s body was found rotting in a Missouri…

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The Church Was Locked. Arlis Was Still Inside

Stanford’s Memorial Church is a masterpiece of stained glass and quiet reverence, nestled in the heart of campus. On most…

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The Town That Was Erased: Inside the Soviet Nuclear Disaster You’ve Never Heard Of

What was the Kyshtym disaster and why was it hidden for decades? In late September 1957, a radioactive cloud drifted…

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