A Spring Night in Manchester Laureen Ann Rahn was 14 years old when she disappeared from Manchester, New Hampshire, during the night of April 26 into April 27, 1980. She lived with her mother in a third-floor apartment on Merrimack Street. At 3:45 a.m. on April 27, Manchester police responded to the building after Laureen was reported missing. More than four decades later, she has never been found, and New Hampshire authorities still consider the case open with foul play susp

On the fifth floor of 140 Moore Street in Brooklyn’s Bushwick Houses, Ana Delvalle and Basil Gray lived in neighboring apartments just steps apart. What happened there in May 2018 still feels almost impossible to believe. Ana Delvalle, a 62-year-old grandmother, was found dead inside her apartment on May 11. Two days later, Basil Gray, the 54-year-old man living next door, was found dead in his apartment too. Both had been shot. Investigators have long believed the killings m

In 2017, three women were found dead within a four block radius in Lumberton, North Carolina. Rhonda Jones was found in a trash can. Christina Bennett was found inside a TV cabinet. Megan Oxendine was found outside a home nearby. Nearly eight years later, the case remains unsolved. Color sketch portraits of Christina Bennett, Rhonda Jones, and Megan Oxendine in the unsolved Lumberton women case. Three Women, One Small Area Between April and June 2017, Christina Bennett, Rhond

Rajah McQueen disappeared in Cleveland in June 2021. Hours later, her car was seen again with bullet holes, missing identifiers, and someone else behind the wheel. Rajah was gone. She has never been found. Sketch portrait of Rajah McQueen, the Cleveland mother who disappeared in June 2021. The Morning She Disappeared On June 26, 2021 , Rajah Adriana McQueen was last seen near East 131st Street and Harvard Avenue  in Cleveland. The FBI says it was around 7:30 a.m.  She was in

Four students were killed inside an off-campus house in Moscow, Idaho. The case shocked the country, and even after the conviction, one question never fully went away: Why were they targeted? Sketch-style portrait of the four University of Idaho victims with their ages: Ethan Chapin, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Kaylee Goncalves. A House Near Campus In the early hours of November 13, 2022 , four University of Idaho students were killed inside the off-campus house at 1122

She was 18 years old. It was a Saturday afternoon. She told her parents she would be back in a couple of hours. Then she walked out the door after a call to her cellphone and disappeared. Color sketch based on missing person images of Colleen Perris, who disappeared from Plantation, Florida in 2000. The Last Ordinary Afternoon On September 30, 2000, Colleen Elizabeth Perris was at her family’s home in Plantation, Florida. Nothing about the day seemed unusual at first. She was

A walk in a quiet Colorado town, an abandoned cabin nearby, and a discovery made seven years later. Colored sketch of Joshua Vernon Maddux smiling in a portrait photo taken before his disappearance in Woodland Park, Colorado. A Walk in Woodland Park On the morning of May 8, 2008 , 18-year-old Joshua Vernon Maddux  left his home in Woodland Park, Colorado, and went for a walk. He did not return. He was later reported missing, and searches in the area found nothing. Joshua’s fa

A young woman, a luxury apartment tower, and a mystery that still raises questions Sketch illustration of Phoebe Handsjuk, the 24 year old Melbourne woman whose death after falling through a garbage chute in 2010 remains widely debated. On December 2, 2010, a building concierge walked into the garbage compactor room of a luxury apartment complex in Melbourne, Australia. Inside the room, she found something no one expected. A young woman was lying among the trash at the bottom

He went to school in Valdosta, Georgia, and never came home. By the next morning, 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson had been found upside down inside a rolled gym mat. Investigators called it an accident. His family spent years insisting it was something far darker. Color sketch of Kendrick Johnson, who was 17 when he left for school and never came home. What happened inside Lowndes High still raises questions more than a decade later. A Normal Day That Ended in a Nightmare Kendri

For years, David and Louise Turpin presented themselves as a quiet homeschooling family. Inside their Perris, California home, 13 children were being isolated, starved, and controlled until one daughter escaped and called 911. A recreated family image shows David and Louise Turpin with several of their children in matching red “Thing” shirts The Turpin Children Case Explained David and Louise Turpin had 13 children and, on the surface, projected the image of a deeply religiou

A decade of concealed births, six murder convictions, and the discovery that exposed everything. Investigators uncovered the remains of seven newborn infants hidden inside boxes in the garage of this Pleasant Grove, Utah home in 2014. The Discovery in the Megan Huntsman Case In April 2014, the Megan Huntsman case  shocked investigators in Pleasant Grove, Utah when Darren West was cleaning out the garage of a home and opened a box containing the remains of an infant.He called

The Donald Cline Fertility Scandal AI-generated illustration with text overlay highlighting the scale of sibling discoveries linked to the Donald Cline case. The First Shock Jacoba Ballard grew up knowing she was donor-conceived. In 2014 , she took an at-home DNA test hoping it might finally point her toward the donor and, maybe, a relative or two. Instead, the results delivered something she was not prepared for. Seven half-siblings.   Not a rumor. Not a suspicion. A list of

Two brothers. A remote mountain. And a case that still divides those who have followed it. Colored realistic sketch of Qaadir and Naazir Lewis standing together indoors. A Discovery on Bell Mountain On the morning of March 8, 2025 , a hiker reached the summit of Bell Mountain  in Towns County, Georgia. The location is known for its scenic overlook. Visitors often drive up the steep road to take photographs of the surrounding Appalachian foothills. That morning, the view was

On April 2, 2008, Brittany Zimmermann’s phone reached 911 from her Madison apartment. No callback came. No officers were sent. It took 12 years for DNA to put a name to what happened next. Brittany’s Life in Madison Brittany Sue Zimmermann was 21 years old and a University of Wisconsin student living downtown in Madison. She was from Marshfield, Wisconsin, and by early April 2008, she was living the kind of routine that feels stable until it suddenly is not. She lived on West

A controversial therapy session in Colorado ended with a 10 year old girl suffocating while adults believed they were helping her “be reborn.” Candace Newmaker (Sketch) in a childhood portrait. She was 10 years old when she died during a controversial rebirthing therapy session in Colorado. A Troubled Early Childhood Candace Elizabeth Newmaker was born November 19, 1989 in North Carolina. Her early life was unstable, and child welfare authorities eventually removed Candace an

A short drive, a steel wire in the dark, and a moment that could not be undone. A Night Out in Georgia In late August 2004, Frankie Brohm, 23, spent the evening drinking with his longtime friend, John Kemper Hutcherson, in Cobb County, Georgia. After leaving a bar, the two got into Hutcherson’s pickup truck to drive home. There was no reported argument. No confrontation. By all accounts, it was a routine ride after a night out. Realistic Sketch of Frankie Brohm pictured befor

A clogged drain, a freezer, and a case that tied Kandis Fitzpatrick and Rori Hache to the same address years apart. The hook This case became known for one grim detail: a judge found that human remains were disposed of through plumbing. But the full story is about how police were pulled into an Oshawa basement apartment after plumbers reported what they found in the pipes, and how that call opened a timeline that eventually included two young women, separated by nearly a deca

A two month old baby, a handwritten “rights over” note, and a 911 call in Rogers, Arkansas. Illustrated sketch based on a published booking photo of Darien Urban (left) and Shalene Ehlers (right) in the Benton County case. The setting On September 21, 2024 , deputies with the Benton County Sheriff’s Office  were called to a campground in Rogers, Arkansas  after staff reported an alarming situation involving a two month old  baby. In official records, the location is described

In Omaha, Nebraska, four people were killed in August 2013 in three separate attacks. Prosecutors said the killings were carried out by Nikko Jenkins, a man who had just been discharged from prison. What made the case feel different, almost immediately, was that the violence did not look like it came out of nowhere. Years earlier, prison staff documented Jenkins talking about killing people after release. In 2013, as the discharge date got close, the language in those records

In Rock Island, Illinois, a 10 year old boy died in December 2022. His death was not reported. And for roughly seven months, no one outside that home truly knew what had happened. Illustrated sketch based on a real photo.  A realistic drawing of an officer opening a metal trash can in a garage during the investigation. The Child People Stopped Seeing Zion Staples was no longer showing up where children are usually noticed. There were no school attendance records raising alarm