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Valentine Jane Doe

On February 15th, 1991, windsurfers discovered the naked body of a young Jane Doe along US Highway 1 in Key West, Florida. She had been assaulted and strangled. For years, authorities tried to identify the woman and her killer. The only clue they had was that she wasn’t from Key West because she didn’t have…

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Kim Bryant

On January 26, 1979, Las Vegas teenager, Kim Bryant, hung out in a Dairy Queen parking lot with a friend. But when it came time for Kim’s boyfriend to pick her up and take her home, Kim was nowhere to be found. She had mysteriously disappeared from a busy Las Vegas street without a trace….

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Stephen Lawrence

In April 1993, 18-year-old British teenager Stephen Lawrence was murdered in a racially motived stabbing while waiting for a bus near London, England. Within days of the murder, the police received an anonymous letter naming five suspects. But the police failed to make any arrests despite the letter, and Stephen’s murder turned cold. Stephen’s unsolved…

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Miracle Mile Murders

In May 2003, three people were brutally murdered inside an upscale apartment in the Miracle Mile neighborhood of Los Angeles. The murders became an instant media sensation for their brutality and apparent lack of motive. Without any solid leads, the case turned cold until March 2009, when DNA evidence turned up a possible suspect. Photo…

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Santae Tribble

In July 1978, two middle-aged white men were gunned down in their Washington D.C neighborhood. A few weeks after their murders, two men were arrested in connection with the shootings, 17-year-old Santae Tribble and his friend, 20-year-old Cleveland Wright. Although both men denied involvement in the crimes, Washington D.C. police and prosecutors believed they had…

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Mary London

In 1981, 17-year-old high school student, Mary London, was last seen alive getting off a city bus in downtown Sacramento, California. The following day her lifeless body was discovered off a remote road. Initially, the Sacramento police received countless tips and leads about who might be Mary’s killer. But when the leads dried up, so…

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George Smith IV

In July 2005, 26-year-old George Smith IV and his new wife, Jennifer, boarded the Royal Caribbean International cruise ship Brilliance of the Seas to celebrate their honeymoon. They planned to cruise around the Mediterranean sea for the next two weeks. But only a few days into their honeymoon, tragedy struck. After a long night of…

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Scottsdale Shootings

In 2018, a spree killer shot and killed six people in Scottsdale and Phoenix, Arizona. The victims included a famous forensic psychiatrist, two paralegals, a counselor, and an elderly couple inside their home. Over 96 hours, the residents of Scottsdale were terrified that they would be next. It wasn’t until the police received a tip…

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Jennifer Watkins

In 1999, Jennifer Watkins was found dead underneath a stairwell inside Colorado Spring’s Memorial Hospital. She had been sexually assaulted and beaten to death. The location of her body underneath the staircase was interesting to investigators because only a few people had access to that area of the hospital. For years, the police investigated Jennifer’s…

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Pamela Shelley

In January 2001, 911 dispatchers received a tragic phone call that a young mother, Pamela Shelley, had shot and killed herself. Following the autopsy, the forensic pathologist ruled Pamela’s death a suicide. But the ruling didn’t sit well with Pamela’s family or the police. After years of doubting Pamela’s apparent suicide, one persistent detective vowed…

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