Abduction
Case 215: The One-Man Crime Wave
On May 26 1978, four-year-old Eric Christgen suddenly disappeared while playing in a park in St Joseph, Missouri. The next day, his body was discovered near the Missouri River…
Case 213: The Noordhoek ‘Ripper Rapists’
It was around 2:30 am on Sunday, December 18 1994, when a group of friends stumbled across the bloody and brutalised body of a young woman…
Case 209: Urban Höglin & Heidi Paakkonen
When Swedish backpackers Urban Höglin and Heidi Paakkonen went missing during a camping trip around New Zealand’s Coromandel Peninsula…
Case 202: Moira Anderson
On Saturday, February 23 1957, 11-year-old Moira Anderson set out in a blizzard to run a quick errand. When she failed to return home, locals in her hometown of Coatbridge…
Case 191: Sheree Beasley
Melbourne psychotherapist Margaret Hobbs was used to dealing with sex offenders. Many of her clients were men who had been referred to her through the court system after committing terrible crimes…
Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 2)
In June 1983, Cindy Paulson ran out onto a highway in Anchorage, barefoot and handcuffed. She was the prized prey of a prolific serial killer who…
Case 190: The Butcher Baker (Part 1)
During the 1970s and ’80s, a predator was stalking the streets of Anchorage, Alaska. By day, he was a respectable family man who ran his own business…
Case 182: Freda Burnell & Florence Little
On February 5 1921, eight-year-old Freda Burnell went missing in the small coal mining town of Abertillery, Wales…
Case 176: Yingying Zhang
In 2017, the future looked bright for 26-year-old Yingying Zhang as she travelled from her hometown in China to study environmental science…
Case 172: Michael Gregsten & Valerie Storie
In August 1961, Michael Gregsten and Valerie Storie were sitting in their car in Dorney Reach, UK when an intruder forced his way into the backseat brandishing a gun…
Case 171: The Gladbeck Hostage Crisis
On August 19 1988, two armed offenders entered a branch of the Deutsche Bank in Gladbeck, West Germany with the intention of holding it up…
Case 166: The Family
In 1979, residents of Adelaide were gripped by fear when several young men began to go missing under mysterious circumstances…
Case 154: Steven Stayner
When seven-year-old Steven Stayner fails to return home from school on December 4 1972, life changes irrevocably…
Case 147: Julie Dart & Stephanie Slater
On July 10 1991, 18-year-old Julie Dart disappeared after a night out in Leeds. Two days later, her boyfriend Dominic Murray…
Case 116: Chloe Ayling
British glamour model Chloe Ayling was ecstatic to be hired for a photoshoot in Milan. But after failing to return to…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 5)
Accused serial killer, 51-year-old Ivan Milat sat motionless before the court as he faced trial for what became known as ‘The Backpacker Murders.’..
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 4)
At 6:36 am on May 22 1994, a team of heavily armed police surrounded the Cinnabar Street home of Ivan Milat…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 3)
After a witness comes forward to report a suspicious incident that occurred near Belanglo years earlier, the investigation quickly gains momentum…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 2)
After the remains of two bodies are found in Belanglo State Forest, New South Wales police establish a task force to oversee the investigation into the double homicide…
Case 109: Belanglo (Part 1)
In the late 1980s and early 1990s, backpackers from across the globe flocked to Australia in search of sun, surf and adventure…
Case 75: Graeme Thorne
On June 1 1960, Sydney resident Bazil Thorne received a phone call informing that he’d just won one hundred thousand pounds…
Case 71: Elodie Morel
On May 2 2005, an officer at the Aigues-Mortes police station in Southern France received a phone call from a panicked man who warned, “A guy who just left my place is about to kidnap a girl. He’s armed, and I think he’s about to do something horrific.”
Case 64: Peter Weinberger
The Weinberger family was emblematic of 1950s suburban America. Husband and wife Betty and Morris lived in a modest home in Wesbury…
Case 58: Shannon Matthews
Nine-year-old Shannon Matthews lived with her family at the Moorside Council Estate in West Yorkshire, England…
Case 52: Mary & Beth Stauffer, Jason Wilkman
In May 1980, Mary Stauffer was a happily married mother-of-two, living in Minnesota. She and her family were about to make a big move to the Philippines, where Mary and her husband…
Case 33: Jaycee Lee Dugard
In the early 1990s, South Lake Tahoe was considered a safe and sheltered place to live. All that changed on June 10 1991, when 11-year-old Jaycee Lee Dugard…
Case 25: Prue Bird
On February 2 1992, 13-year-old Prue Bird was preparing lunch in the kitchen of her family home in the Melbourne suburb of Glenroy…
Case 07: Julian Buchwald & Carolynne Watson
On March 4 2008, Julian Buchwald invited his girlfriend Carolynne Watson for a romantic picnic at his family’s property in Gippsland, Victoria…