Brett Cantor

In the summer of 1993, in Los Angeles, a well-known club promoter and record executive would be found brutally butchered in his apartment, in a crime that some have sought to link with one of the most high-profile murder cases in American history. Twenty-five-year-old Brett Cantor was originally from New York, but moved with his … More Brett Cantor

The Alcàsser Girls

It was the afternoon of Friday, November 13th, 1992, and three friends—sixteen-year-old Antonia Gómez Rodriguez, better known as Toñi; fifteen-year-old María Deseada Hernández Folch, better known as Desirée; and fifteen-year-old Miriam García Iborra—met up at the home of a fourth friend, a girl named Esther Diez, in the town of Alcàsser, in Valencia. Toni, Desirée, … More The Alcàsser Girls

Suzanne Jovin

As winter of 1998 descended, a brilliant and promising young woman would be viciously slain in the street near the campus of one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Suzanne Jovin was twenty-one years old, a senior majoring in political science and international studies at Yale University in Connecticut. She had been born … More Suzanne Jovin

Jill Dando

In the spring of 1999, in London, England, a crime occurred that took the nation by storm: the seemingly random assassination of a beloved British celebrity in broad daylight. Media coverage of the murder in the weeks and months afterward rivalled the frenzy following the death of Princess Diana in August of 1997. Thirty-seven-year-old Jill … More Jill Dando

Tristan Brübach

Thursday, March 26th, 1998 was the last day of school before Easter break in Frankfurt, Germany. At a little before eight o’clock that morning, thirteen-year-old Tristan Brübach got up for classes; his father Bernd had left for work nearly four hours before, as usual. Tristan was being raised by his father and grandmother, after enduring … More Tristan Brübach

The Redhead Murders

On the day before Valentine’s Day of 1983, a body was found alongside a West Virginia highway, and although law enforcement weren’t aware of it yet, the dead woman may have been the first discovered victim of a possible serial killer who seemed to target red-haired females. An elderly couple was traveling along Route 250 … More The Redhead Murders

Judy Smith

In 1997, in the northeastern United States, a truly bizarre murder mystery would begin to unfold whose every detail seems to suggest ever more improbable scenarios and whose outcome appears just as muddled today as it did when it first occurred. Fifty-year-old Judy Smith was a successful home-care nurse who lived in a wealthy suburb … More Judy Smith