The Murder of Danny Longstreet Early in the morning of March 14, 1997, Danny Longstreet left his home in Higginson, Arkansas, for another quiet police shift. Longstreet was 39 years old and had joined the Higginson Police Department less than…
The Strange Phone Call On the afternoon of October 27, 2000, a secretary at a major electronics company in Taiwan answered a phone call at her desk. Instead of a normal conversation, she heard frantic screaming. The caller sounded like…
A Woman Found Dead on a Rotating Bed Around noon on November 19, 1976, a housekeeper named Ying was cleaning rooms at a hotel in Hong Kong. She reached room number two and knocked on the door. There was no…
Who Was Thomas McDermott? Just after 8:00 a.m. on May 14, 1900, 36-year-old house painter Thomas McDermott was sitting inside St. Patrick’s Church in Lowell, Massachusetts. A funeral Mass was taking place. McDermott did not know the person who had…
The Miner Who Went Back Into the Cave Around 5 p.m. on February 9, 1920, 46-year-old gold miner Albert Anton walked through the rain in Edgewood, Illinois. His mining crew had taken the day off because of the bad weather.…
Around noon on December 8, 1976, 59-year-old Oric Bovar entered the elevator of a luxury apartment building in New York City. He was carrying a bag of groceries. Oric was on his way to visit his friend Steven, who lived…
In August 2012, a dispute between neighbors at the Sable Ridge condo complex in Dallas, Texas, began with complaints about noise and dog waste. Six months later, the conflict ended with the murder of an upstairs couple. At the center…
The Murder of Léonce Mout At around 5 p.m. on May 18, 1988, 71-year-old Léonce Mout left his medical clinic in Marseille, France. Mout was not a doctor. He was a businessman who owned the private clinic. He had spent…
The golf ball search that turned deadly Around 9:45 p.m. on December 3, 2014, 29-year-old Jacques Van Der Sandt walked onto the Skukuza Golf Club with a friend. They were not there to play golf. The course was closed for…
Ed Parry Disappears From His Home At about 4:30 p.m. on Monday, April 21, 2025, Amy Parry returned to her family home in Whitstable, a coastal town in England. She had just dropped her 18-year-old son at a friend’s house.…