THEY DROVE NINETEEN-YEAR-OLD EVELYN HART INTO AN ABANDONED RAIL TUNNEL FOR “STEALING” WINTER COAL—BUT WHEN THE GREAT FREEZE CUT OFF THE TOWN, HER DEAD FATHER’S TELEGRAPH BEGAN TAPPING ONE IMPOSSIBLE NAME…

At eight seventeen on the morning of November 6, 1935, Sheriff Owen Cole carried Nora Whitaker’s sewing machine into the muddy street and set it…

The laughter began before Clara Whitmore reached the front of the town hall. Someone behind her whispered that the dead woman had finally found a…

THEIR SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON VANISHED AFTER BUYING ICE CREAM—NINETEEN YEARS LATER, A FAKE BIRTH CERTIFICATE LED A STRANGER BACK TO PASADENA The young man had spent…

MY SEVEN-YEAR-OLD SON VANISHED AFTER BUYING ICE CREAM—NINETEEN YEARS LATER, A REJECTED SOCIAL SECURITY NUMBER REVEALED THE LIFE STOLEN FROM HIM The young man had…

THEY CALLED THE DEPUTY’S DISAPPEARANCE A MOUNTAIN ACCIDENT—UNTIL A WILDFIRE EXPOSED HIS BONES AND THE LIE HIS BEST FRIEND HAD PROTECTED FOR 19 YEARS At…

THEY SAID THE YOUNG NEBRASKA WIDOW HAD LEFT FOR LINCOLN—THEN A BODY BENEATH HER SILO EXPOSED THE FRIEND WHO HAD TAKEN EVERYTHING The demolition crew…