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In the summer of 2009, Bend, Oregon, was the kind of quiet city where families felt safe. Located along the Deschutes River and surrounded by pine forests and dormant volcanic mountains, it was a place where children rode bikes until sunset. The Carter family lived in a modest home not far from downtown, known to … Read more

Snow still lay thick on the platform steps when Emily Hartman vanished from Anchorage, Alaska. The city of 183,000 was locked in the grip of early winter storms, and the last night of November began with a blast of frigid wind that whipped down with a blizzard, dumping more than a foot of snow across … Read more

In the summer of 1988, Philadelphia was a city of hospitals, universities, and medical research centers. In a quiet residential neighborhood on the west side, tree-lined streets and red-brick row houses seemed to hold a stable, ordinary life for the Whitmore family. Dr. Jonathan Whitmore was 42 years old, a respected ophthalmologist trusted by patients … Read more

In the summer of 1984, Salem, Oregon, still felt like the kind of quiet city where many families believed locking the door at night was enough to keep the outside world away. On the south side of town, low houses sat behind maple and fir trees, children rode bicycles in the street until dark, and … Read more

In the early morning hours of September 8, 2018, a seventeen-year-old boy walked out of his family's red-brick home on Oakridge Drive in Lancaster, Pennsylvania. A doorbell camera captured him at 6:18 a.m., wearing a gray hooded sweatshirt, blue jeans, white sneakers, and a black backpack. He closed the door quietly, walked down the porch … Read more

For 34 years, the disappearance of a young Fort Worth mother and her infant daughter remained one of the city's quietest mysteries. A car abandoned by the Trinity River, a diaper bag left intact, and no body ever found. Then a young cold case investigator noticed something everyone else had missed. On the afternoon of … Read more

In November 1950, Eleanor Price and Tom Weller left the Red Creek Tavern in Yazoo County, Mississippi, and drove into the fog along Old Beulah Road. They were never seen alive again. The case went cold for nearly six decades. Then modern forensics, a dredging project, and one family member’s persistence pulled the truth out … Read more