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What Really Happened to Harriet Elizabeth Riley?

A six-year-old is found wrapped in plastic in a Sacramento dumpster in 1975, four years after her father’s unsolved murder. Initially ruled accidental, her “unsolved homicide” case was reopened in 2015: what really happened to Harriet Riley?

In 1981, a Sacramento Man Disappears on Trip to Los Angeles. Two Weeks Later, His Car Found Abandoned in New Orleans: What happened to Dale Kelley?

On the morning of May 20, 1981, 21-year-old Dale Eugene Kelley departed his home in Carmichael, California in his orange 1976 Toyota Celica. He planned make the six-and-a-half hour drive to Los Angeles to visit his girlfriend, but he never made it there. Two weeks later, his car turned up abandoned in in New Orleans, but he was nowhere to be found. What happened to Dale Kelley?

Daniel Nations’s Timeline: Not Yet Suspect in Delphi Double Homicide, as New Details of Life and Criminal History Revealed

What have we learned in the month since a connection was first suggested between Daniel Nations and the unsolved double murder of Liberty German and Abigail Williams?

While Indiana State Police have yet to find evidence to either include or exclude Nations as a suspect in the Delphi homicide, new information has come to light about the hatchet-man’s sometimes and often violent past.

List the Missing: Four Families Who Disappeared Together

This marks my first List the Missing post, in which I hope to bring some attention to lesser-known missing persons cases. Each list of missing persons will be based on some shared trend. This week’s trend is families who disappeared together. 

Eight True Crime Podcast Episodes Worth Listening To

The rising popularity of true crime and podcasts gives us a virtual all-you-can-eat buffet of options. But, this makes it harder to wade through the shit and find something good.  Avoid the crap and find out which eight true crime podcasts episodes are worth your time.

FBI Vault: Serial Killers and Mass Murderers

Have you heard of the FBI Vault, the Bureau’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) Library? If like me, you fancy yourself true crime researcher, the…

Before Dorothy Arnold, There Was Adele Boas: The New York City Heiress Who Went Missing and Came Home

New York City heiress Adele Boas didn’t wake up on April 23, 1909 with the intention of going missing, but before the sun would set, she was gone.

Introducing a Four-Part Series on the 1969 Disappearance of Thomas Riha

Thomas Riha spent the night of March 15, 1969 attending dinner party at a graduate student’s Boulder home. The University of Colorado professor appeared distracted…