Fifty Shades of Fear

Send us Fan Mail Two teenage boys. A freight train before dawn. A tarp the police swore never existed. On August 23rd, 1987, best friends Don Henry and Kevin Ives were found on the railroad tracks in Alexander, Arkansas — a discovery that would ignite one of the most controversial and haunting cases in Southern history. What began as a rushed “accident” ruling quickly unraveled into a maze of corr...

Send us Fan Mail On the evening of January 6, 2007, in Knoxville, Tennessee, two people in love climbed into a Toyota 4Runner and drove toward a party. They were twenty-one and twenty-three years old. They were making plans for the weekend. They were not extraordinary people in the way that society deams  — no Nobel prizes, no brushes with fame — but they were extraordinary in the way that all liv...

Send us Fan Mail It is May 1935. The Great Depression is still exhaling its last, ragged breath across the American Midwest. Four people, two middle-class couples from Illinois, load up a 1929 Nash automobile and point it west on Route 66. They are going to see the Boulder Dam, Which is now known as Hoover Dam. They are going to see the future. George and Laura Lorius from East St. Louis. Albert a...

Send us Fan Mail On March 13, 1987, Nancy Newman — an Anchorage, Alaska mother of two, waitress, and certified public accountant — had dinner with her sister after her shift. She came home to her daughters: Melissa, age 8, and Angie, age 3. She never showed up for work again. Two days later, when family members entered the Newman home, they discovered one of the most devastating crime scenes in An...

Send us Fan Mail On the night of October 9, 2010, Unique Harris, a 24-year-old mother of two, put her children to bed in her Southeast D.C. apartment and was never seen again. She left behind her purse, her ID, her credit cards, her young children, and the eyeglasses she needed to see. Her sofa had been deliberately mutilated. A man named Isaac Moye — a convicted rapist, released from prison just...