Deep in the Ozarks, two men held Cassidy Rainwater captive in a cage, eventually killing her and dismembering her body. Was the dark web involved?
After sadistically murdering Elizabeth Pena, Jaime Osuna was sent to prison, where he decapitated his cellmate.
Authorities are on the heels of a serial killer dubbed the "Eastbound Strangler."
Herbert Baumeister was an American serial killer who has been linked to the murders of 11 men who were found dead on his property. Are there more victims?
A young woman crashes her car into a tree and is never seen again.
In December 1991, Little Amanda "Nikki" Campbell left for her friend's house in Fairfield, California, one afternoon, but she never arrived. Police say the abductor took her to McDonald's after he kidnapped her.
Six people go missing and are believed to be part of a cult run by Rashad Jamal.
Every day, 13-year-old Matthew Margolies would go fishing at nearby Byram River in Greenwich, Connecticut. One day, he never came home, and the identity of his killer is still not solved, continuing to baffle the police and community for decades. Will we ever know who killed Matthew Margolies?
It took 40 years to connect serial killer Timothy Krajcir to the deaths of multiple women with advanced DNA technology.
Charles Starkweather and Caril Ann Fugate shocked the country in the 1950s when they killed 11 people and went on the run.
Morgan Violi vanished in 1996 and was later found murdered. For decades, her disappearance has haunted her community and the detectives investigating her case.
Susan Powell seemed to have it all until she went missing and police discovered her life was not as it appeared to be.
Mike Williams vanished in the swamps of Florida while duck hunting. Alligators were blamed at first, but authorities soon found out his disappearance was much more sinister.
Four bodies were found decades apart confounding the authorities until a librarian began researching the case.
A young woman named Heather Teague is violently kidnapped off a beach in Kentucky and the search for answers has continued for decades.
Two days before Christmas in 1974, three young girls went to the mall to shop for presents. Their Fort Worth, Texas, community was shocked to find they never made it home.
In 1997, three generations of a family were lost to murder in Miramar, Florida. A bloodbath traumatized a family and community who have never given up on finding justice.
A wife and mother went missing in 2020 and her husband was arrested. In September 2023, investigators found Suzanne Morphew's remains while searching an area for another case. Will her husband Barry Morphew be cleared?
In 1992, the small town of Williamstown, Iowa, was rocked by the murder of one of its favorite residents, Rhonda Knutson. Even sheriff's deputies were suspects.
Four-year-old Nyleen Kay Marshall vanished while picnicking with her family in the Helena National Forest in Montana. Did she wander off, or was she abducted?
The unsolved murder of music executive Brett Cantor stunned the Hollywood community and showed there is an underbelly of crime in the City of Angels that can target anyone.
In the 1990s, children would freely ride their bikes around their neighborhood in Moscow Mills, Missouri. That is until Charles Henderson vanished into thin air.
Two teens set out to see the Summer Jam concert approximately 150 miles from their homes. Of the 600,000 people who attended, Bonnie Bickwit and Mitch Weister were the only ones who never came home. Whatever happened to the two teenagers is lost to time.
Kacey Perry vanished over 30 years ago but news of her disappearance has been minimal.
A little girl tells her mother she is going to meet a friend in the lobby of her apartment complex and vanishes, leading to the largest search for a missing child in Toronto's history.
In 1979, a young girl was found murdered in a cornfield and named Caledonia Jane Doe. For decades her identity remained a mystery.
As time passes, missing person cases become harder to solve. We take a look at three cases where time may have run out: Michael John Olson, Patricia Elayne Action, and Amy Billig.
Over a hundred years ago, a young heiress was running errands and vanished without a trace. Her disappearance shocked the city of New York and has intrigued the public for decades.
A 16-year-old boy, Jason Dale Bolton, died on a rural county road in Laurel, Indiana. His death was classified as an accident, but his family believed he was murdered, alleging that a coverup took place.
Disappearances and murders of several young women in Ohio stun a community, but no one has provided information to help investigators. All the young women had ties to substance abuse and prostitution. Did stigma hinder the investigation into these forgotten women known as the Chillicothe Six?
Jennifer Lancaster and her two daughters, Sidney and Monique Smith, disappeared in Topeka, Kansas in 2000. More than two decades later, police have few leads.
Police find out a baby is missing 30 years after her mother Christine Belusko ("the girl with the scorpion tattoo") was found brutally murdered in Staten Island, New York.
Kathy Shaw is on a mission to find the man who abducted and raped her, and who may also be the murderer of Tammy Sue Aldridge.
A young girl's body is located in New Jersey in 1972, and rumors of witchcraft and human sacrifice spread like wildfire in the media.
In 1979, the Lewis Clark Valley and Lewiston Civic Theatre disappearances and murders of Christina White, Kristine Nelson, Steven Pearsall, Brandy Miller, and Kristin David baffled police and uncovered few suspects. Could advances in DNA technology help catch the killer?
Cynthia and David Dowaliby were arrested for their daughter's murder ... but did they do it?
Two women are found burning in a seedy hotel in New York City. The discovery of Richard Cottingham's victims would begin unraveling the serial killer's activities, which became a game of cat and mouse with a dogged detective.
It was bad enough for Hans and Betty Hansen when their twin daughters Julie Ann and Jillian Lee died from injuries sustained by gunshots and a house fire in Humboldt County, California in 1986. But then they learned that the main suspect for the murders was their son Donny Hansen.
Bobbie Jo Oberholtzer and Annette Schnee were murdered in a small Colorado resort town. At first, Bobbie Jo's husband Jeff Oberholtzer was the prime suspect, but one orange sock held the clue to solving the mystery and finding the real killer, Alan Lee Phillips.
The arrest affidavit for the murders at the University of Idaho said that accused killer Bryan Kohberger engaged in stalking his victims up to 12 times before murdering them.
Kali Ann Poulton was the "apple of her mother's eye." Then she vanished while riding her Big Wheel outside. While the city of Rochester, New York searched for a kidnapper, Kali's mother told police about an odd neighbor named Mark Christie.
On a chilly October night in 2011, baby Lisa Irwin vanished. Her parents believe she was trafficked, but the police focused on them as suspects, and may have missed critical evidence.
Gary Heidnik abducted six women in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania during the mid-1980s. What he did with them is what nightmares are made of.
A Polaroid picture is found in a parking lot of a Florida convenience store depicting two unidentified children. Could it be tied to the disappearance of Tara Calico?
John Walsh joins the search for fugitive Brian Laundrie who was reported missing by his parents on September 17, 2021.
Gabby Petito is an adventurous and free spirit who had embarked on a cross-country journey with her boyfriend. All of the sudden her texts to her family stopped and her boyfriend showed up back home alone.
A high-profile murder of a mother and son from a prominent South Carolina family uncovers other potential brutal crimes. What's the story behind the Murdaugh murders?
Annie Le was Yale University grad student who went missing in 2009. Her body was later discovered concealed in the wall of the lab she worked in. Her fellow student Raymond Clark III was later found responsible for the murder of Annie Le.
In 1973, Linda Ann O'Keefe, an 11-year-old Girl Scout, was abducted and murdered while walking home from school. Learn the story of the innovative police solution 45 years later that led to the capture of her killer.
Little five-year-old Summer Wells was out planting flowers with her mother and grandmother at their house in the beautiful mountains of Tennessee. One minute she was there and the next minute gone.
Alisha Bromfield was a soon-to-be young mother who worked at Home Depot. Her depraved boss, Brian Cooper, is serving two life sentences for murder.
A young girl, Rachel Burkheimer, starts hanging out with the "Northwest Mafia" and faces the ultimate betrayal of her friends as she's forced to watch the digging of her own grave.
There are thousands of unsolved murder cases throughout the United States, but thanks to advancements in genetic technology, justice may be in reach for victims' families. Learn about three famous cold cases solved by DNA, including Fawn Cox and Jody Loomis.
The Abell sisters, Rozlin and Fawn, went missing in 1985. Decades later, there are still very few clues. Did they run away, or were they murdered by their father Otto Abell or serial kidnapper Royal Russell Long?
DNA finds the killer of Bitter Creek Betty Jane Doe and Sheridan County Jane Doe nearly 30 years after their murders. Their Identities remain elusive.
Nearly four decades have passed since the body of a young girl was found alongside Interstate 40 in northern Arizona on Valentine's Day 1982.
One of the most horrific murders of the century happened in 2016 in Knoxville, Tennessee. The brutal murders of Joel and Lisa Guy by their son Joel Guy Jr. remain forever etched in the memories of their family and community.
Pornhub is ranked as the 10th most-visited website in the world. But what happens if a missing child or sex trafficking victim is found on the site?
Two Arizona sisters vanish without a trace in 1974 and their mother goes to the ends of the Earth to find them.
The mysterious disappearance and death of a young woman with Down Syndrome has traumatized a small community in Arizona.
On July 12, 2007, firefighters discovered the body of a baby in the burned remnants of a house, but where was the baby's mother, Joey Lynn Offutt? It was only the beginning of a tragic mystery that would become a 16-year unsolved cold case.
Holly Courtier lost her job as a nanny during the pandemic and planned to hike Zion National Park in Utah. Her daughter refuses to give up the search.
William Bonin, also known as the "Freeway Killer," picked up young men and boys who were hitchhiking in the 1970s and 1980s. Bonin's horrors were finally exposed after his arrest.
It was a June summer night in 2009, when Lindsey Baum, a little girl who was scared of the dark, began to walk home from her friend's in McCleary, Washington. She never made it home.
Diana Shawcroft and Jennifer Lueth were best friends who were brutally murdered in Glendale, Arizona, in 1996. Years later, police discover someone is visiting the body dumpsite.
Tara Calico was kidnapped in New Mexico. Months later, a Polaroid photograph of an unidentified young woman is found in Florida, creating a mystery that lingers to this day.
Lisa Stasi and her daughter Tiffany Stasi vanished in Overland Park, Kansas, after meeting with local community leader John Edward Robinson. Lisa was never found, and 14 years later, a woman named Heather Robinson makes a startling, tragic discovery about her past.
A child is missing, and later found buried alive and encased in concrete. Almost 15 years later, the murder of Nevaeh Buchanan has baffled police, leaving the community traumatized and frustrated and speculating whether her mother's friends were involved. The case was reopened in 2021.
Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi, granddaughter of Tyrone Power and daughter of Romina Power, shied away from celebrity life and ventured around the world to write a book. She traveled to New Orleans where she vanished into her own mystery novel, and her disappearance is unsolved to this day.
A Pentagon official and CEO of Mothers Against Drunk Driving was found murdered in 2010. The baffling case has fueled conspiracy theories about John P. Wheeler’s life and death.
In 1977, three young girls were brutally murdered while on a Girl Scout camping trip. The only suspect was acquitted but investigators hoped advancements in DNA technology would help identify the killer. In 2022, the results of the tests were finally made public.
Beloved news anchor Jodi Huisentruit vanished from a parking lot in Mason City, Iowa, in 1995. In 2020, a cryptic message appeared on a billboard advertising her unsolved case.
Four children were abducted and murdered, all posed in the snow in Oakland County, Michigan. The police investigations into the Oakland Child Killer case were bungled from the start, and the "Babysitter Killer" still walks free.
A woman is taunted by an anonymous caller, then goes missing. Then the caller begins harassing the missing woman's parents.
The Lyon sisters went missing decades ago, baffling the police and creating fear in the community. While their murderer Lloyd Welch has been found and convicted, the girls' bodies remain missing.
Three women go missing in America's Corn Belt, a place where those who have vanished have left no trace. What happened to Denise Pflum, Lauren Spierer and Tricia Reitler?
A young woman goes for a morning jog and vanishes, and her parents spend years searching for her. What happened to Rachel Cooke?
Sherrill Levitt and her daughter Suzanne Streeter and friend Stacy McCall (the Springfield Three) were abducted from their home and have been missing for decades. Here are stories of 10 missing persons and disappearances, including Jasmine Moody, Kristen Modafferi, and Stacey Smart.
Ted Bundy's reign of terror may have begun during his teenage years and accumulated into as many as 100 murders, experts say. Lynda Ann Healy was one of his victims.
Was Adrienne Salinas a serial killer's victim of opportunity? Convicted double-murderer Bryan Patrick Miller is just one suspect in this heartbreaking cold case from 2013.
In 2017, the small town of Delphi, Indiana, was torn apart by the brutal killing of two young girls. The so-called Snapchat Murders, which seemed dangerously close to becoming a cold case, may now be on the verge of seeing justice served.
A beautiful, young teen, Corinna Slusser, was lured into the sex trafficking trade and vanished in 2017.
In 1978, Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble were two friends who went to buy Christmas gifts at the mall. They were never seen again.
Tammy Leppert was an actress who appeared in "Scarface" and "Spring Break," but she disappeared in 1984, along with other models and beauty queens, including Beth Kenyon and Dawnette Wilt. She was never found, but do we know her cause of death? Was she a victim of serial killer Christopher Wilder?
An infamous serial killer lived just down the street from little Ann Marie Burr, who vanished from Tacoma, Washington in 1961. Was this little girl Ted Bundy's first victim?