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Suspect Was Exonerated For Her Murder… But Did He Actually Do It?
October 12, 2026 · 24 minOn March 13, 1973, University of Iowa student Sarah Ann Ottens was found dead in her dorm room at Rienow Hall. Much of the campus had emptied for spring break, but Sarah had stayed behind. She had been brutally beaten and strangled. Fellow…
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The Bodies of Mount Everest: What Happened to Mallory and Irvine?
October 9, 2026 · 32 minOn June 8, 1924, British climbers George Mallory and Andrew “Sandy” Irvine disappeared into the clouds high on Mount Everest while attempting to become the first people to reach its summit. Neither returned, leaving a question that has…
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Would you confess to a murder you didn't commit?
October 7, 2026 · 41 minWhy would someone confess to a crime they never committed? Real cases reveal how hours of questioning, exhaustion, intimidation, and false claims about evidence can push innocent people to say what investigators want to hear, sometimes…
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Teen Girl's Murder Case Unsolved for 55 Years
October 5, 2026 · 32 minIn January 1968, 18-year-old Iowa State freshman Sheila Jean Collins was trying to get home to Evanston, Illinois, for the weekend. When her boyfriend could not drive her, she accepted a ride from someone who had found her name on the…
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How a Receipt Solved the Murder of Lesley Herring
October 2, 2026 · 35 minIn 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 a Starbucks receipt found in her purse…
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Lori Erica Ruff Led Multiple Lives... But What Was She Hiding From?
September 30, 2026 · 29 minOn 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 child who had died years earlier. Even…
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Woman found in a BOX dropped from the sky?
September 28, 2026 · 18 minIn 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 head. For almost 50 years, she was…
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Why Did This Man Live as a Dead Child For 40 YEARS?
September 25, 2026 · 27 minIn 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 eight-year-old boy killed in a Texas car…
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Only BONES were found : Two Jane Does Who Need Their Names Back
September 23, 2026 · 27 minIn 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 years old and that she may have died years…
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How Nellie Bly Changed the World
September 21, 2026 · 23 minIn 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, neglect, and women held there despite showing…
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The Las Cruces Bowling Alley MASSACRE
September 18, 2026 · 29 minOn 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 setting the room on fire. Steven Teran…
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The Invention of Vaccines: Edward Jenner and Smallpox
September 16, 2026 · 23 minIn 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 the idea by taking material from a…

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