In January 1999, rebel forces poured into Sierra Leone's capital under an operational name that was also a promise — 'No Living Thing.' Over six thousand civilians were slaughtered, burned, and mutilated in twenty-one days. The men who named the operation are dead or vanished. The question of who truly ordered it has never been answered.
Nazarbayev's ex-son-in-law was found hanging from a clothes hook in his Vienna prison cell -- two days before he was due to testify about two murdered bankers.
Two unrelated men vanished from Iceland in 1974. No bodies, no evidence, no witnesses. Yet six people confessed to killing them both and spent decades in prison
A commodity trading giant turned away by every port in Europe hired a freshly created Ivorian company for $17,000 to dispose of 528 cubic meters of toxic sludge -- and overnight, an entire African metropolis became a gas chamber.
Four gunmen walked into a cabinet meeting in Rangoon and slaughtered a nation's founding fathers. One man was hanged for ordering the hit, but the weapons came from British armories and the true conspiracy may have stretched far beyond a jealous politician.
On July 5, 1962, Algeria declared independence and Oran erupted in celebration. By nightfall, hundreds of Europeans lay dead in the streets. Sixty years later, no one agrees on the death toll, who gave the order, or why 18,000 French soldiers stood by and did nothing.
On a stormy September night in 2002, a Senegalese government ferry carrying nearly four times its capacity capsized in five minutes. Of roughly 2,000 passengers, 64 survived. Divers heard the trapped screaming inside the hull but lacked the tools to cut through. No one has ever been charged.
Georgia's prime minister was found dead in a rented Tbilisi apartment in 2005. The official cause was a faulty heater. The FBI's own data contradicts it.
Morocco's top dissident was lured to Boulevard Saint-Germain in 1965 and forced into an unmarked car. Six decades later, his body has never been found.
Three teenagers stabbed to death in a tent on a Finnish lakeshore in 1960. The survivor was charged forty-four years later and acquitted.
She sang in the choir since she was nine. The pastor said God wanted her to marry his brother. When she tried to leave, she disappeared — and thirteen years later, her body has still never been found.
For five years a killer stalked women through rural South Korea. He vanished for three decades — until a DNA database matched a prisoner already serving life.