Crime Clueless

They drained a reservoir and dragged the Ohio River. They dug up a sandbar and chased a stage conjurer’s “clue.” Pearl Bryan’s head was never found. In part two, we piece together Pearl’s last four days in Cincinnati: a...

On a foggy February morning in 1896, a farmhand outside Fort Thomas, Kentucky, finds a woman lying in the privet bushes. At first he thinks she’s just another girl, sleeping off a hangover maybe. Then the sheriff pulls...

On the afternoon of May 3, 2002, Michael Kerkowski and Tammy Fassett were doing yard work when two visitors pulled into the driveway. When Michael's mother called, Tammy kept it short: "We have company." Michael was a...

Private investigator Ken Brennan has a theory about what happened in Room 348, and it starts with a question nobody thought to ask. As he and Detective Scott Apple follow a rumor, a hunch, and one very small detail most...

Greg Fleniken was a man of routine. Every Monday he drove from Lafayette, Louisiana, to Beaumont, Texas, checked into the same hotel, and spent his nights the same way: propped up on two pillows with a candy bar, a...

For sixteen years, the disappearance of Mike Williams sits unsolved — a mother's letters to the governor, a reopened investigation, and still, no answers. Then, in the summer of 2016, something happens that has nothing...

December 16, 2000. Before sunrise, Mike Williams loads his boat and heads out onto Lake Seminole — a lake he's hunted a hundred times before, on a morning that's supposed to end with an anniversary dinner. He never...

Steven Koecher's phone has gone silent, his family is left with more questions than answers. What investigators find years later — buried, hidden, and nearly destroyed by time — changes everything about how this case...

In December 2009, a 30-year-old man named Steven Koecher parks his car at the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a Henderson, Nevada retirement community — and walks out of frame forever. No struggle. No body. No answers. But...

On the morning of February 4, 2015, 18-year-old Sara Nicole Graham left her home in Fairmont, North Carolina, to go to work. She never arrived. Hours later, her father’s white Chevrolet Astro van was found locked and...

He built the scene before he ever needed it. Then he found out how well the story worked. Edmonton, Alberta. A married father with a failing production company, a growing obsession, and a garage full of secrets. A...

It starts with a message. A little hope, after a hard year. A date that feels, finally, like something good. It doesn't stay that way. Edmonton, Alberta. October 2008. A residential garage on the city's south side...

On April 15, 2005, Centre County, Pennsylvania District Attorney Ray Gricar took the day off, told his girlfriend he was going for a drive, and was never seen again. His car was found locked the next day outside an...

Years after Ray Gricar vanished without a trace, a disturbing discovery about his own computer reopens the case in a whole new light. A scandal connects his name to one of the biggest in American sports history. In Part...

Last episode, we told you who Patsy Wright was. Today, we go looking for who killed her. In part two, the suspects are named and the cards go on the table — one by one, with everything pointing toward them and...