Two days before her graduation from high school, 17-year-old Shari Smith was kidnapped from her mailbox. The kidnapper called her family on eight different occasions taunting them and even threatened that Shari's 21-year-old sister, Dawn, would
On a July evening in 2014, 14-year-old April Millsap took her dog Penny for a walk on a popular biking trail not far from her home. At 6:28 pm she texted her boyfriend sending him a chilling message, "OMFG I think I was almost kidnapped." It wa
In 1990, a woman confessed that she and her boyfriend raped and murdered Taunja Bennett then dumped her body along the Old Scenic Highway in Oregon. However, a long-haul trucker, Keith Jesperson, was very surprised to hear this news because he
In August 1973, unbeknownst to the City of Houston, a serial killer named Dean Corll was running wild. Between 1970 and 1973, teenage boys were disappearing from the suburbs but authorities failed to notice the pattern. It wasn’t until one of
In 2004, a film class at Hope College in Holland, Michigan, set out to make a documentary on the 1978 cold case murder of 22-year-old Janet Chandler. Janet was known by her family to be a conservative woman of strong Christian faith and morals,
In 1973, five teenagers decided to spend their Saturday night listening to the guitar by the campfire at Gitchie Manitou State Park. Five of them entered the park, but only one left alive. This story is truly what nightmares are made of...Lis
Keddie, California, was once the home of a run-down resort filled with dilapidated cabins that were rented out as housing to low-income families. One night in April of 1981, four people were tortured and killed in Keddie's Cabin 28 in a massac
In 2004, a 22-year-old named Erin went to check on her grandmother's winter home in Deltona, Florida, like she often would, just to make sure everything was fine with it. On July 31st, she discovered she found items at her grandma's house, suc
The city of Boston was overcome with terror in the late 1800s because a monster was torturing its' young boys. After eight children were brutally violated, the police were finally able to nab the perpetrator. To everyone's surprise, the sadis
In the early 1990's, Seattle was the scene for the new grunge wave, computer techs and also a sadistic piquerist who enjoyed murdering and staging the bodies of young women. Robert Keppler, John Douglas and other criminal profilers analyzed the