Prathamesh Kabra
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…
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…
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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.…
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…
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…