After a high school dance in February 1974, 17-year-old Carla Walker was abducted from her boyfriend’s car at gunpoint in Fort Worth, Texas. Three days later, the police found her body in a ditch just a few miles away from her home. Although forensic science was still in t’s infancy, the first responding investigators were…

In October 2003, Tina Watson and her husband, Gabe Watson, boarded a plane headed to Australia. The newlyweds were excited to spend the next two weeks celebrating their honeymoon. Tina and Gabe planned to scuba dive a historic shipwreck in Queensland. But within minutes after entering the water, one of them experienced trouble. And only…

For seven years, 44-year-old pediatric nurse Cindy James from British Columbia reported over 100 incidents of violence and harassment. Five of the incidents were physical attacks on Cindy. Over time, the police began doubting Cindy’s stories. Every time the police came around, the harassment stopped. And when the police disappeared, so did the threats and…

In July 2021, Elijah Snow and his wife, Jamie, boarded an early morning flight in Arlington, Texas. They traveled to Cancún, Mexico, to celebrate their 10th wedding anniversary. The first day of the trip went just as planned. They spent the day by the beach and had a nice dinner at one of the all-inclusive…

In September 2016, two sisters from Minnesota, Anne and Robin Korkki, set out on a trip of a lifetime to Africa. They spent the first two weeks in Kenya, Zanzibar, and Tanzania. But tragedy struck when they arrived at the Maia Luxury Resort in Mahe, an island in the Indian Ocean 900 miles off Africa’s…

In September 2014, two European backpackers, Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were found murdered on Sairee Beach on Thailand’s island of Koh Tao. They had been brutally beaten to death just a few feet away from their hotel rooms. From the beginning, the Thai police had difficulty securing the crime scene. While collecting forensic evidence,…

Oakland, California resident, Laurie Wolfe, lived the kind of life many people strive for. At 57-years-old, she had become a successful business and property owner. She was a wife, daughter, and good friend. But everything came crashing down on July 6, 2014, when her husband, Joseph Bontempo, discovered her lifeless body at the bottom of…

In 1995, a woman died inside the Plaza Hotel in Oslo, Norway, from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot. When the police attempted to identify the woman, they discovered she checked into the hotel three days earlier with a fake name. The police initially thought the woman had committed suicide. But as they got deeper into the…

Between 1981 and 1983, women in Fort Lauderdale, Ocala, Miami, and Dade County, Florida, were terrorized by a serial rapist. In his terror, the Classified Ad Rapist assaulted over 50 women. The rapist targeted women through the Penny Saver, who placed classified ads. In 1984, the suspect graduated from rape to murder. Over eight months,…