PART 1: Four Fingers and a Thumb Rain hammered the floor-to-ceiling windows of the private dining room, smearing the city skyline into streaks of amber and grey. Inside, the air...
58 minutes to curtain. Celeste, I need an answer. Do I cancel or do I put Sophie on? I can fix it with what? Your shopping cart. [laughter] That violin...
On the night of August 9, 1980, Tim Hack drove a brown oldsmobile into the Concord House parking lot in Sullivan, Wisconsin with his girlfriend, Kelly Drew to attend a...
The Larkin Creek Bridge on County Road 1,147 in Montgomery County, North Carolina, had been carrying traffic across the creek since 1938, which meant it had done so for 88...
A small American town sells you a promise. Safety. Quiet. A place where bad things don’t happen because everybody knows everybody. Grain elevator, church, school three blocks away. A place...
They knew what he had eaten last, [music] a pasty a few hours before he died. They knew his shoes had been polished and that they were far cleaner than...
A young girl from a small town in Idaho went to school and never returned, leaving her parents’ world torn apart by grief and uncertainty. But two years later, her...
On August 26th, 2009, a 29-year-old woman walked into a parole office in conquered California. She arrived with a convicted kidnapper named Philip Gerrio, his wife Nancy, and two girls....
The wagon rolled into the mountain valley just before noon, its wheels groaning over the rocky trail as if they carried a secret too heavy for the earth itself. Every...