December 15 - The Kidnapping and Murder of Marion Parker
On this day in 1927, 12-year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her Los Angeles junior high school by a man posing as a messenger from her father. Within 48 hours, her disappearance turned into one o...
15 Dec 20257min
December 14 – The Disappearance of Jason Landry
On this day in 2020, 21-year-old Jason Landry was officially reported missing—just hours after his crashed car was discovered on a rural Texas road with no sign of the driver.The Texas State Universit...
14 Dec 20258min
December 13 - The Texas Seven Prison Break
On this day in 2000, seven men executed one of the most shocking and well-coordinated prison escapes in American history. Known as the Texas Seven, the group walked out of a maximum-security facility ...
13 Dec 20258min
December 12 - The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold
On a cold afternoon in 1910, 25-year-old Dorothy Arnold — an heiress, aspiring writer, and socialite — left her family’s Upper East Side home for what should have been a simple shopping trip. She boug...
12 Dec 20258min
December 11 - The Murders of Rick and Suzanna Wamsley
On December 11, 2003, Rick and Suzanna Wamsley were found brutally murdered inside their home in Mansfield, Texas. To friends and neighbors, they seemed like the picture of suburban success — loving p...
11 Dec 20258min
December 10 - The Murder of Frances Brown
On this day in 1945, Chicago police entered a North Side apartment and found a crime scene so brutal — and so chillingly theatrical — that it made headlines across the country and birthed one of the m...
10 Dec 20257min
December 9 - The Disappearance of Joan Bernal
On this day in 1988, 34-year-old Joan Yarbrough Bernal was supposed to be hitting the road with her husband and children for a holiday trip from Joliet, Illinois, to Texas. Instead, she vanished witho...
9 Dec 20258min
December 8 — The Murder of John Lennon
On this day in 1980, music legend John Lennon was shot outside his New York City home by a fan who had waited for hours. Just hours before, Lennon had signed an autograph for the man who would end his...
8 Dec 20258min
