How a Receipt Solved the Murder of Lesley Herring
In February 2009, 44-year-old Lesley Herring vanished from her Los Angeles home, leaving behind her car, phone, keys, purse, jewellery, and savings. Her husband, Lyle, claimed she had simply left but ...
2 Okt 34min
Lori Erica Ruff Led Multiple Lives... But What Was She Hiding From?
On Christmas Eve 2010, Lori Erica Ruff died by suicide outside her in-laws’ home in Texas. Afterward, her family found a box of documents revealing that “Lori” had built her life on the identity of a ...
30 Sep 29min
Woman found in a BOX dropped from the sky?
In October 1976, a farmer harvesting corn near Otterbein, Indiana, found a small cardboard box about 15 yards from the road. Inside was the body of an older woman who had been shot in the back of the ...
28 Sep 17min
Why Did This Man Live as a Dead Child For 40 YEARS?
In 2002, a quiet Ohio man named Joseph Newton Chandler III died by suicide in his Eastlake apartment. He left behind $82,000, but no family, no clear past, and a name that turned out to belong to an e...
25 Sep 27min
Only BONES were found : Two Jane Does Who Need Their Names Back
In October 2006, a man harvesting dogwood plants found a young woman’s remains in a marshy field near the Darlington Nuclear Plant in Bowmanville, Ontario. Investigators estimated she was 18 to 25 yea...
23 Sep 26min
How Nellie Bly Changed the World
In 1887, reporter Nellie Bly faked mental illness to be committed to New York City’s Women’s Lunatic Asylum on Blackwell’s Island. For ten days, she witnessed cold baths, rotten food, beatings, neglec...
21 Sep 23min
The Las Cruces Bowling Alley MASSACRE
On the morning of February 10, 1990, two armed men walked into Las Cruces Bowl in New Mexico, forced seven people into an office, stole less than $5,000 from the safe, and shot every victim before set...
18 Sep 29min
The Invention of Vaccines: Edward Jenner and Smallpox
In 1796, English doctor Edward Jenner noticed a local belief that milkmaids who caught cowpox, a usually mild disease, seemed protected from smallpox, one of history’s deadliest infections. He tested ...
16 Sep 23min
