In the late 1990s, women began disappearing at an alarming rate from the Downtown Eastside of Vancouver, Canada, an area known for poverty, drug addiction, and prostitution. Many of the missing women were sex workers, and a disproportionate number were Indigenous. Despite the growing list of missing persons, authorities were slow to investigate. Su…

In 1994, nine-year-old Penny Davis disappeared near her rural home in Okanogan County, Washington. Six months later, her body was found in a shallow grave. The prime suspect was Jack Spillman, who had a criminal history and had dated Penny's mother. In 1995, Spillman brutally murdered Rita Huffman and her fourteen-year-old daughter Amanda in their …

Lauren Giddings was a promising twenty-seven-year-old law school graduate, eagerly awaiting the start of her career as a public defender. But just weeks after graduation, as she prepared for her bar exam, Lauren vanished from her apartment right across the street from her law school in Macon, Georgia. Her friends and family grew increasingly worrie…

On a summer afternoon in 1996, Tim Walthall was testing out his new high-powered telescope along the banks of the Ohio River bordering Indiana and Kentucky. But instead of the usual wildlife and barges, he witnessed a horrifying crime through the lens: the abduction of a young woman sunbathing on a remote beach across the river. Tim immediately cal…

]In 2008, Larry and Carri Williams, a fundamentalist Christian couple from Washington, adopted eleven-year-old Hana Alemu and seven-year-old deaf boy Immanuel from Ethiopia. But instead of providing a loving home, the parents subjected them to unimaginable abuse and neglect while sparing their seven biological children. Guided by the controversial …

In 1992, thirteen-year-old Kerri Anne Buck narrowly escaped abduction by a dangerous predator. Twenty-one years later, that same man, Donald Smith, gained the trust of struggling mother Rayne Perrywinkle and her eight-year-old daughter Cherish at a Jacksonville, Florida, Walmart. Cherish was not so lucky. Join us as we recount the chilling events s…

Deep in the heart of the Lone Star State, a monster lurked, preying on the innocent and unsuspecting - Kenneth McDuff. A sadistic serial killer's reign of terror left a trail of blood and shattered lives in his wake. Born into a family steeped in violence and chaos, McDuff's twisted path seemed predetermined. Even when condemned to death for his he…