Abduction
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…