Prathamesh Kabra
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
The Radium Girls
They told them it was safe. Then their jaws fell off. In the early 20th century, America was buzzing with…
The Silent Twins
In 1963, twin girls were born in Yemen to Caribbean parents. Their names were June and Jennifer Gibbons. No one…
The Woman Who Turned a Hospital Into a Crime Scene – Gloria Ramirez
On February 19, 1994, the emergency room at Riverside General Hospital looked just like any other California hospital on a…
The Lake That Breathed Death: The 1986 Disaster at Lake Nyos
On the night of August 21, 1986, Ephriam Che was inside his mud-brick house perched on a cliff above Lake…
Brazil’s Lead Masks Mystery
On a quiet August afternoon in 1966, a young boy flying a kite on Morro do Vintém—a scrub-covered hill just…
The Final Madness of Edgar Allan Poe
It began like any ordinary journey. On September 27, 1849, Edgar Allan Poe left Richmond, Virginia, with the intention of…
The Man Behind the Mask: Unburying John Wayne Gacy
John Wayne Gacy didn’t look like a killer. That’s the problem. In his world of tidy lawns, handshake deals, and…
How Did a Cult Carry Out the Largest Bioterror Attack in US History?
What Happened in The Dalles, Oregon, in 1984? In 1984, 751 residents of The Dalles, a small city in Oregon,…