He entered the subway at 57th Street after teaching his last class at Columbia. By dawn, he was on a plane to the Dominican Republic, drugged and unconscious. His body has never been found.
A 1980 fire killed 153 elderly women at Kingston's Eventide Home. The phone lines had been cut. Four men were seen fleeing. No one was ever charged.
A seventeen-year-old choir singer vanished from a quiet Danish train station at four in the morning. Her body surfaced in a lake on Christmas Eve. For seven years, degraded DNA and grainy CCTV footage kept the case frozen -- until a kidnapped child led police to a roll of tape that changed everything.
A robotic woman's voice has been broadcasting encrypted five-digit codes from Cuba since the 1960s. The FBI copied the decryption software from a spy's apartment. The codes convicted a network. The station is still on the air.
In 1997, a twenty-one-year-old Taiwanese airman was executed by firing squad for the rape and murder of a five-year-old girl. The DNA evidence proving his innocence had been available before he died. Fourteen years later, the state admitted it had killed the wrong man -- and the actual murderer has never been brought to justice.
A journalist investigating forty unsolved killings vanished in a white Land Cruiser — a minister admitted he was dead, then retracted, and no body has surfaced.
On a Thursday morning in July 1998, a car bomb detonated on one of Budapest's busiest streets, killing four people including the target — a mafia boss who had been informing police about the oil trade. The hitman was an agent of Slovak intelligence. The true orchestrator has never been identified.
An 11-year-old boy vanished from a birthday pool party in one of Trinidad's wealthiest suburbs. His body was found the next morning at the bottom of the pool -- strangled, sexually assaulted, wearing another man's swim trunks. The DNA that could have identified his killers was incinerated. Twenty-eight years later, no one has been charged.
He crossed into Taliban territory with twenty men and a satellite phone. The CIA and ISI — agencies that armed him for decades — let him die.
He exposed football corruption that toppled the Ghana FA president and reached FIFA. Seven months later, two men on a motorbike shot him dead in Accra.
The 9th Infantry Division claimed 11,000 enemy kills in the Mekong Delta but recovered only 748 weapons. Up to 7,000 of the dead were civilians.
They washed ashore on Uruguay's beaches — tortured, anonymous, buried as NN. Decades later, forensic science began to return their stolen names.