Five fishermen departed Maui on a calm Sunday morning in 1979. A sudden gale swallowed them whole. Nine years later, their boat was found on a deserted Pacific atoll 2,300 miles away — with one man buried in a grave that should not have existed.
Armed men dragged seventeen Amhara students off a bus into Ethiopian jungle in 2019. The government says most were freed. No family has seen their child since.
She wrote 'There are crooks everywhere you look now. The situation is desperate.' Thirty minutes later, a text message detonated the bomb under her car seat. The hitmen are convicted. The accused mastermind is free on bail. The politicians she exposed are still on trial.
He ran South Korea's most feared intelligence agency for six years, then fled to America and told Congress everything. When they lured him to a Paris casino in October 1979, he walked in and never walked out. Three weeks later, the president who wanted him silenced was assassinated by the very man accused of ordering his death.
A failed seminarian called himself Christ in Papua New Guinea's highlands and built a cult of ritual rape — until villagers delivered the only verdict.
Half a billion euros vanished from Lithuania's third-largest bank. Its Russian owner bought a football club, tried to buy Saab, fled to Russia, faked his own death, and resurfaced in France as a Ukrainian war refugee named Volodymyr Ivanov.
Natalia Estemirova spent years documenting killings, abductions, and torture in Chechnya for Memorial. On July 15, 2009, she became one of her own case files.
A Dutch pediatric nurse was convicted of seven murders and three attempted murders based on a probability calculation that expert statisticians called nonsense. She spent six years imprisoned for deaths that were later found to have natural causes.
America's master of mystery was found raving in a Baltimore gutter wearing a stranger's clothes. He died four days later without explaining where he had been. His death certificate has never been found.
America's most celebrated architect was shot dead in front of hundreds of witnesses at the peak of New York society. The killer was a millionaire. The motive was a teenage girl. The trial divided the country.
Russia's most prominent exiled oligarch was found dead in his locked bathroom with a scarf looped around a towel rail. British police said suicide. His own pathologist said homicide. The inquest couldn't decide.
Three teenagers were sentenced to death and life imprisonment for a triple child murder they almost certainly did not commit. The man circumstantial evidence most implicates has never been charged. The real killer may still be alive.