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.…
In April 1951, a German soldier named Karl reportedly woke up inside a dark underground bunker in northern Poland. He could not see anything. The bunker had been completely dark for years. Karl had no candles left, and there was…
The 1877 Cincinnati Grave Robbery Shortly after midnight on a summer night in 1877, a middle-aged man named Howard Dormer entered a cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. He was not there to mourn the dead. Dormer was a grave robber. His…
In 2012, police in Garanhuns, Pernambuco, uncovered a disturbing murder case involving three people, missing women, cannibalism and empadas allegedly made with human flesh. But one detail made the case even more disturbing. A five-year-old girl was living in the…