There is a version of this story that most of America never heard. A sixteen year old girl. Straight-A student. Athlete. The kind of teenager who made everyone around her believe the future was going to be just fine. She traveled from her hometown in North Carolina to Baltimore to spend Christmas with her older […]
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Room 260: The Unsolved 1980 Double Murder at the Amana Holiday Inn On September 12, 1980, two people checked into Room 260 at the Amana Holiday Inn in Williamsburg, Iowa. They had driven 265 miles from St. Joseph, Missouri, for a secret weekend together. By the next afternoon, both were dead — killed in one
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The Murder of Brandy Renee Dyson: 20 Years Without Justice in Lake Charles, Louisiana On November 5th, 2005, in the aftermath of two catastrophic hurricanes, 32-year-old Brandy Renee Dyson was found dead in the water behind the Lake Charles Civic Center in Louisiana. She had been strangled. A man was arrested, indicted, and jailed for
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One Dollar: The Disappearance of Sherry Lynn Marler Greenville, Alabama · June 6, 1984 WRITTEN BY: CRIME CLUELESS STATUS: UNSOLVED · CASE OPEN MISSING SINCE: JUNE 6, 1984 AGE AT DISAPPEARANCE: 12 YEARS OLD On the morning of June 6th, 1984, a twelve-year-old girl named Sherry Lynn Marler rode twelve miles into town with her
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Available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, YouTube, Amazon Music, and all streaming platforms The Morning Everything Stopped On the morning of June 27, 1995, a 27-year-old news anchor in Mason City, Iowa called her producer to say she had overslept and was on her way in. She never arrived. And what police found in the parking
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A Locked Room, A Glass, and a Note On August 22, 2005, what looked like a tragic suicide quickly became something far more disturbing. In a quiet home in upstate New York, Stacey Castor called 911 in a panic. Her husband, David Castor, was locked inside their bedroom and not responding. When police forced their
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The Twisted Case of Dave Kroupa, Liz Golyar, and Cari Farver In November 2012, what looked like a messy breakup in Omaha, Nebraska slowly grew into one of the strangest digital stalking cases investigators had ever seen. At first, it appeared to be a story about jealousy. A woman who had recently dated a man
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A Quiet Road Above the Lake On September 5, 2012, a BMW was found stopped at a small gravel turnout on a narrow mountain road in southeastern France. The road — Chemin de la Combe d’Ire — winds above Lake Annecy, climbing into the foothills of the French Alps. It’s scenic, quiet, and lightly trafficked.
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How a quiet veteran vanished after Thanksgiving—and how his family and detectives uncovered a chilling betrayal. In November 2019, 58-year-old Roger “Fred” Farmer told his family he was heading out for a hunting trip. That wasn’t unusual for Fred. He was a disabled veteran, quiet and dependable, the kind of man who liked routine and
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“I’ve Got Her”: The Haunting Case of Dorothy Jane Scott On a quiet Wednesday night in May 1980, Dorothy Jane Scott walked out of a hospital in Orange County, California — and disappeared into the darkness. Her car would be found hours later, burned in an alley. Her body would not be found for four
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