Case 346: Megumi Yokota

Case 346Megumi Yokota*** Content warnings: Child abduction ***When 13-year-old Megumi Yokota failed to return home from her regular badminton practice on November 15 1977, her parents immediately raised the alarm. The police in Niigata, Japan, conducted one of the...

read more

Case 343: John Zera

On February 28 1976, the suburban community of Hales Corners, Wisconsin, was rocked when the body of missing schoolboy, 14-year-old John Zera, was discovered in a local park…

read more

Case 342: Julia Wallace

When 52-year-old Julia Wallace was found brutally murdered in her Liverpool home in 1931, no one could have anticipated the complex and challenging investigation that would follow…

read more

Case 340: Elisabeth Membrey

When 22-year-old aspiring journalist Elisabeth Membrey failed to answer her phone on December 7 1994, her loved ones knew something was wrong…

read more

Casefile Extra: Ben McDaniel

On Friday August 20 2010, officers from the Holmes County Sheriff’s Department were called to Vortex Spring, a commercially operated dive park just outside the Florida town of Ponce de Leon…

read more

Casefile Revisited: The Wanda Beach Murders

On January 11, 1965, 15-year-old Christine Sharrock and Marianne Schmidt spent the day at Cronulla Beach with Marianne’s four younger siblings. After lunch, the two teenagers went for a walk into the nearby sandhills at Wanda Beach, but never returned…

read more

Case 328: Kirsty Jones

23-year-old Welsh backpacker Kirsty Jones had her whole life ahead of her when she set out for a two-year trip across Asia, Australia and South America…

read more

Case 322: William Tyrrell (Part 1/2)

It was a peaceful morning on Friday, September 12 2014, as three-year-old William Tyrrell played happily in the backyard of his grandmother’s home in the small New South Wales…

read more

Case 321: Vincent Viafore

When 46-year-old Vincent Viafore disappeared while kayaking on the Hudson River with his fiancée, 35-year-old Angelika Graswald…

read more

Case 303: Duncan MacPherson

When 23-year-old Canadian ice hockey player Duncan MacPherson accepted a coaching job in Scotland, he was ready for his next adventure…

read more

Case 300: Tegan Lane (Part 2/2)

When Keli Lane is charged with the murder of her newborn baby Tegan in 2009, the circumstantial case sparks debate around the country. Was this star athlete a cold blooded killer or…

read more

Case 298: Bonnie Hood

On August 19 1990, the tiny mountain town of Camp Nelson, California, was stunned when the owner of the Camp Nelson Lodge, Bonnie Hood, was found shot to death in her private cabin…

read more

Case 294: Ray & Jennie Kehlet

When married couple Ray and Jennie Kehlet went on a prospecting trip to the Western Australian outback in March 2015, they had one thing on their minds and that was to find gold…

read more

Case 292: Monster of the Andes

In the late 1970s, young girls along the Andes mountain range in Ecuador began to disappear. By 1980, the number of missing girls had reached national crisis proportions…

read more

Case 290: The Crawford Family

When a Holden belonging to Glenroy man Elmer Crawford was found at the bottom of the Loch Ard Gorge in July 1970, immediate concerns were raised for the safety of…

read more

Case 279: Zebb Quinn

In early January 2000, residents of Asheville, North Carolina, were told to be on the lookout for 18-year-old Zebb Quinn after he failed to return home after finishing his shift at Wal-Mart…

read more

Case 278: Alma Tirtschke (Part 1/2)

When 12-year-old Alma Tirtschke failed to return home after running an errand for her family, they were immediately concerned. Alma was a dutiful child who did what she was told and respected her elders…

read more

Case 265: Marea Yann

For Marea Yann, two things mattered most in life – family and community. When the 69-year-old was found violently bludgeoned to death in her Healesville home…

read more

Case 264: Andrew Gosden

When 14-year-old Andrew Gosden mysteriously disappeared from his home in the UK suburb of Doncaster, evidence emerged to indicate that he’d left of his own free will…

read more

Case 256: Jill Rosenthal

On April 27 1964, young mother Dora Fronczak was in her hospital bed feeding her one-day-old son, Paul, when a nurse entered the room and said she had to take Paul back to the nursery…

read more

Pin It on Pinterest