On a September morning in 1988, a Midlothian, Illinois, family woke to a nightmare no parent should ever have to face. Seven-year-old Jaclyn Marie Dowaliby was gone from her bedroom. What followed was an enormous search, a murder investigation, a controversial prosecution of Jaclyn’s parents, and a conviction that was eventually thrown out. More than … Read more
Update, Sept. 9: Reilley Holmes has been found safe, according to the Pierce County Sheriff’s Office. Before that news brought relief to her family and investigators, authorities had been searching for the 34-year-old Washington woman after a series of unusual events raised concerns about her safety. Holmes was last seen on Thursday, September 3, after … Read more
On a September night in 2009, Reid Gray returned to his luxurious home in a Florida beach community expecting an ordinary evening. Instead, he found a note from his wife that immediately turned his world upside down. Quinn Gray, a 37-year-old mother of two, claimed she had been kidnapped. The message said several men were … Read more
Joseph Chaffins remains both a missing person and a wanted man in Kosciusko County, Indiana. He disappeared on October 26, 2022, and despite years of investigation, authorities have still been unable to determine what happened to him. Investigators have emphasized that the case has not gone cold, although the number of tips has decreased as … Read more
Alice M. Corbett was a 20-year-old American college student whose disappearance in November 1925 became one of the enduring mysteries associated with Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts. Born on March 3, 1905, and raised in Utica, New York, Corbett was a junior at Smith College and was considered to be doing well academically when she … Read more
On January 15, 1947, the body of 22-year-old Elizabeth Short was discovered in an undeveloped area of Los Angeles. The shocking condition in which she was found transformed the case into one of the most notorious unsolved murders in American history. Newspapers soon gave Short a name that would become permanently associated with the case: … Read more
On a December night in 2013, Elvis Presley disappeared from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, after going on what appeared to be an ordinary first date. She was a young woman with a job, friends, family, and plans for the future. Within hours, however, communication with her stopped. Her car was later discovered abandoned near the … Read more
On a November afternoon in 2022, seven-year-old Athena Presley Monroe Strand disappeared from her home in Paradise, Texas. What initially appeared to be a sudden missing-child emergency quickly became a massive search. Investigators soon focused on someone who had been at Athena’s home that same afternoon—a delivery driver who had arrived with a Christmas package. … Read more
For decades, the disappearance of 12-year-old Jonelle Renee Matthews remained one of Colorado’s most haunting unsolved cases. Jonelle vanished from her family’s home in Greeley on December 20, 1984. Her disappearance became part of the national conversation surrounding missing children, but despite years of searches and investigations, there was no answer about what had happened … Read more
For almost four decades, investigators knew her only as “Millie Doe.” In June 1984, the remains of an unidentified woman were discovered in the Spokane River in Washington. She had been brutally dismembered, and several parts of her body were missing. Without a name, family, or clear connection to her past, the case became one … Read more