
Part 1 In the winter of 1962, David Bunger began locking his study door. His wife noticed first. For fifteen years, David had been a…

Part 1 Savannah, GeorgiaNovember 7, 1849 The auctioneer read the number twice because the first time he said it, the crowd thought he had made…

Part 1 The first thing Sheriff Thomas Harrington noticed was that the big house was still breathing. Not living. Not standing in any honest sense.…

Part 1 When Franklin T. Graves knocked on Cora Mae’s door in Richmond in the autumn of 1936, he expected an old woman with memories.…

Part 1 They wrote her price down the way a man might write the price of a bent nail or a cracked cup. Lot 17.…

Part 1 Mississippi, 1851. By late summer, Bowmont Place was so hot that the world seemed to sweat from the inside out. The fields shimmered…

Part 1 The road to the Marsh farmhouse had not been on a county maintenance schedule for thirty-eight years. That was the first thing Trooper…

Part 1 The last voice anyone heard from Dr. Carlos Mendoza came through a curtain of static at 7:43 p.m. on July 26, 1975. In…

Part 1 Elias Croft had not wept since the morning they lowered his wife into frozen ground with nobody left to hold his hand. Five…

Part 1 The five-dollar bill lay in Clara Reinhold’s palm like a final insult. Constance Hargrove had folded it once, sharply, as if even charity…





