The FIRST Case SOLVED by Internet Sleuths : The case of Tent Girl
In 1968, a man searching for a well site in rural Kentucky found the body of a young woman wrapped in canvas. She had been strangled and left without identification; for three decades, the grave marke...
7 Sep 23min
The Bear Brook Murders: The Chameleon Killer Almost Solved
In 1985, a hunter found a 55-gallon barrel in the woods near Bear Brook State Park in New Hampshire. Inside were the bodies of a woman and a little girl. Fifteen years later, police found a second bar...
4 Sep 47min
The UFO Cult that Led to 39 deaths: Heaven's Gate
In March 1997, deputies entered a rented mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California, and found 39 members of Heaven’s Gate dead by suicide. They were dressed alike in black clothing and Nike trainers, lyi...
2 Sep 56min
The Woman Who Took on a Nuclear Company , Then Mysteriously Died
In 1974, 28-year-old Karen Silkwood worked at Kerr-McGee’s plutonium fuel plant in Oklahoma. A union activist, she raised alarms about safety failures, radioactive contamination, and alleged falsifica...
31 Aug 32min
The Man Who FAKED His Own DEATH... and Nearly Got Away With It
In March 2002, John Darwin paddled his canoe into the North Sea off Seaton Carew and disappeared. Searchers found wreckage, his family mourned, and his wife Anne claimed more than £500,000 in insuranc...
28 Aug 36min
How a SNAIL in a Drink Would Change the World
In 1928, May Donoghue was drinking ginger beer at a café in Paisley when a friend poured the last of an opaque bottle into her glass. Out came the decomposed remains of a snail, something she could no...
26 Aug 25min
The SENSELESS Murder of Joanna Yeates : Detectives Thought a PIZZA BOX Could Solve Crime
In December 2010, 25-year-old landscape architect Joanna Yeates vanished after a night out in Clifton, Bristol. CCTV showed her buying a Tesco pizza on the way home but when detectives searched her fl...
24 Aug 35min
