The Girl In the Picture
A sketch artist and a grieving mother set out to solve a cold case. The more they dug, the more terrifying the truth became.
Unsolved Murder
The Unsolved Mystery of the Malibu Creek Murder
A man named Tristan Beaudette was killed while camping in Malibu Creek State Park with his two young daughters. For residents, it became a true crime sensation. But for his family, it was something very different.
The Single-Mom Murder
She moved to Cape Cod to escape the glitzy Manhattan world she born into. The only witness to her murder was her 2-year-old daughter. Everyone she knew, it seemed, was a suspect.
Who Killed the Prime Minister?
Three decades ago, Olof Palme was assassinated on Stockholm’s busiest street. The case remains unsolved.
Lost Soul
The inspiring life and mysterious death of NBA player Bison Dele.
The Unsolved Murder of an Unusual Billionaire
Last December, a Canadian pharmaceuticals executive and his wife were found strangled in their home. No one knows who did it or why, but everyone has a theory.
Perfectly Boring
On William Eggleston’s The Red Ceiling and an unsolved murder.
Excerpts from 'Bones in the Desert'
From the Translator’s Note:
Just over two weeks ago, on April 3, the renowned Mexican writer and investigative journalist Sergio González Rodríguez unexpectedly passed away from a heart attack at age 67. [His book] Bones in the Desert is a far-reaching investigation into the still-unsolved murders of hundreds of women and girls in the communities surrounding Mexico’s Ciudad Júarez, on the US border with El Paso, Texas. In the years since its publication in 2002, Bones in the Desert has left an indelible imprint on the modern literature of the Americas, both through its own merits and its foundational influence on Roberto Bolaño’s 2666. In crafting a fictionalized version of Ciudad Júarez, Bolaño collaborated directly with González Rodríguez, relying on him for substantial “technical help” in answering questions about the nature of the murders, and eventually including him as a character in the novel.
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The Twilight Zone
An excess of people and an excess of desert.
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No Longer a Girl
The hallmarks that would come to characterize the official narrative surrounding the serial murders were already being established.
Unholy Act
Decades after the body of beauty queen Irene Garza was pulled from an irrigation canal, there is still only one suspect: John Feit, the priest who heard her final confession.
My Brother, the Murderer
Who killed Jean Hope in 1970?
Who Killed Lorenzen Wright?
Investigating the unsolved murder of a former NBA player.
How To Get Away With (the Perfect) Murder
Who killed four people in the French Alps?
The Borough Mystery: Dr William Kirwan
“Southwark’s petty thugs must have thought all their birthdays had come at once: a well-dressed toff stumbling round their borough in no state to defend himself, and with an alcoholic street whore as his only companion.”
Reconstructing a mysterious 1892 London murder.
Who is the Boy in the Box?
A fingerprint expert spends decades investigating the death of an unidentified boy found in the woods in 1957.
The Mad Strangler of Boston
The criminologist/lawyer who created Perry Mason unravels the Boston Strangler case, in which eleven women were murdered by an assailant they willingly let into their homes.
The Real-life Swedish Murder That Inspired Stieg Larsson
A Stockholm prostitute is found hacked apart in a dumpster, her head is never found. Two accomplished doctors, confirmed creeps, are arrested. Uncertainty endures.
The Vidocq Society: Murder on the Menu
For the last two decades, the varied personalities behind the Vidocq Society—retired cops, sketch artists, FBI agents—have gathered in Philadelphia to tackled cold-case homicides over lunch. They claim to have solved more than half.
The Trials of "Dr. Sam"
A Wikipedia-style dissection of the case that inspired The Fugitive. The accused, Dr. Sam Sheppard, claimed to have struggled with an intruder before being knocked out and dumped on a beach, his wife’s left corpse in their house.
Russia's Spam King
The unsolved killing of Russia’s most notorious spammer.
Taman Shud Case
An unidentified body found near the beach in Australia in 1948. An unclaimed suitcase. A coded note.
