Threads of Truth

On a wet December night in Dublin in 2000, 22-year-old bank employee Trevor Deely went to his work Christmas party, spent part of the night at a nightclub, and then disappeared. What makes the case particularly haunting...

Robert Pickton became one of Canada's most notorious convicted serial killers after six counts of second-degree murder led to a life sentence in 2007. But the case was never simply about one man or one farm. For years...

Between 1963 and 1965, Ian Brady and Myra Hindley murdered five young people in and around Greater Manchester. Three of the victims were children. The crimes became known as the Moors Murders, and the bleak landscape of...

In Rajasthan, India, surrounded by the Aravalli hills, lies the ruins of Bhangarh Fort a place that has become almost synonymous with curses, ghosts and forbidden places. According to legend, Bhangarh's destruction...

In the rural community of Biddulph Township, Ontario, the Donnelly family had become infamous. For decades, disputes over land, religion, crime, family rivalries and accusations of violence had poisoned relations...

In January 2025, Nguyễn Xuân Đạt was killed in Lạng Sơn, Vietnam, in a case that would eventually become known online as the “Vietnamese Butcher.” What made the case extraordinary was not only the murder itself, but...

On the night of 11 April 1981, Cabin 28 at the Keddie Resort in California became the scene of a brutal attack that left three people dead and another seriously injured. The victims were Glenna Sharp, John Sharp, and...

On 29 November 1970, the burned body of an unidentified woman was discovered in Isdalen, a remote valley outside Bergen, Norway. She carried no identification. The labels had been removed from her clothing. Two...

On Christmas Eve 1945, a fire destroyed the Sodder family home in Fayetteville, West Virginia. Five children Maurice, Martha, Louis, Jennie and Betty Sodder were never seen again. The official conclusion was that the...

In February 1959, nine experienced hikers died in the remote northern Ural Mountains of the Soviet Union. Their tent was discovered abandoned on the slopes of Kholat Syakhl, with the hikers' belongings still inside. The...

In the late sixteenth century, an English settlement was established on Roanoke Island, off the coast of what is now North Carolina. Then, seemingly overnight, its inhabitants disappeared. When Governor John White...

On Australia Day, 1966, three siblings Jane Beaumont, Arnna Beaumont, and Grant Beaumont vanished from Glenelg Beach in Adelaide without a trace. What followed was one of Australia’s most extensive missing persons...

Between 1976 and 1977, four children vanished from the suburbs of Detroit, Michigan. Days later, each was found murdered under circumstances that deeply unsettled investigators. The victims had not simply been...

On the morning of 26 April 1999, Jill Dando arrived at her home in Fulham, London, carrying shopping bags and preparing for an ordinary day. Moments later, she was shot once in the head at point-blank range. The murder...

Just days before Christmas in 1996, Sophie Toscan du Plantier arrived at her secluded holiday home near Toormore in West Cork, Ireland, expecting a peaceful winter retreat. Instead, she became the victim of one of...