The Door

In January 2013, 17-year-old Kendrick Johnson was found dead inside a rolled-up wrestling mat in his high school gym in Valdosta, Georgia. Authorities initially ruled his death an accident — claiming he got stuck reaching for a shoe. But his parents suspected foul play. A second autopsy revealed blunt force trauma. Surveillance footage was mysteriously missing. And rumors of a cover-up involving c...

In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide in what became one of the most notorious unsolved crimes in U.S. history. The random and terrifying nature of the poisonings caused nationwide panic, led to one of the largest product recalls in history, and forever changed the way over-the-counter medications are packaged and sold. Despite decades of i...

On November 13, 2022, four University of Idaho students—Kaylee Goncalves, Madison Mogen, Xana Kernodle, and Ethan Chapin—were brutally stabbed to death in their off-campus home in Moscow, Idaho. The shocking crime left the community in fear and led to an extensive investigation. After more than a month-and-a-half, Bryan Kohberger, a 28-year-old criminology Ph. D. student from Washington State Univ...

This is a case that shook Japan to its core — a tale of unimaginable cruelty that still haunts the nation over three decades later. Picture this: It’s November 25, 1988. The streets of Misato, a quiet suburb of Tokyo, are bustling with the usual after-school crowd. Among them is Junko Furuta, a 16-year-old high school student known for her beauty, intelligence, and kind heart. As she pedals home o...

The Maura Murray case involves the mysterious disappearance of Maura Murray, a 21-year-old college student, on February 9, 2004. Maura was last seen after crashing her car on a remote road in Haverhill, New Hampshire. She had left her university in Amherst, Massachusetts, citing a family emergency, though it was later revealed there was no such emergency. After the crash, she vanished without a tr...

The Steven Pladl case involves a disturbing series of events centered around Steven Pladl, his biological daughter Katie Pladl, and his ex-wife Alyssa. In 2017, Steven and Katie, who had been separated for most of her life and reconnected as adults, began a romantic and sexual relationship. This relationship, which was both incestuous and illegal, came to light when Steven's ex-wife, Alyssa, disco...