He survived the death camps of Argentina's dictatorship, testified against his torturer — and then, on the eve of the verdict, vanished into silence.
On a London bridge in 1978, a poisoned pellet smaller than a pinhead ended a writer's life — and the coded files that named the killer were destroyed before anyone could read them.
He landed in Cairo to cover historic peace talks — and by dawn his body lay stripped of all identification on a dusty road near Cairo airport, shot once through the heart.
On a Kolkata morning in 1982, seventeen robed monks were pulled from taxis by a mob and set on fire — witnessed by thousands, investigated by no one.
The man who ran the branch at the center of Europe's biggest money laundering scandal disappeared on a Monday morning and was found dead in his own garden two days later.
她携带九本伪造的比利时护照、一本密码笔记本和一位随后消失的联络人抵达——1970年11月，她被发现独自在挪威山谷中燃烧。
A Pennsylvania district attorney drove to a river town and never came back — his laptop destroyed, his hard drive dumped, and someone had searched how to wreck the evidence.
1994年12月，梅丽莎·威特驾车前往保龄球馆与母亲共进晚餐——她从未进入球馆，六周后她的尸体在奥扎克国家森林深处五十英里处被发现。
一架总统专机冲向山脉，坠落地点距南非边境仅150米——调查人员抵达前，证据已消失无踪。
1978年至1988年间，七名女性在新英格兰乡村五十英里长的地带被谋杀。其中一名幸存者身中二十七刀，至今仍记得凶手的面容。他从未被控告。