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Back on July 2, 1970, tourists visiting Loch Ard Gorge, Australia, found a crashed car teetering on the edge of an oceanside cliff. It looked like the car could plunge into the water at any moment. A…

After 18-year-old Kaitlyn Arquette was murdered in 1989, the Albuquerque police department believed it was a random act of violence. But as details were released, possible motives for her murder came…

Registered Nurse Julie Keown had goals for her life: start a family, purchase a home, advance in her career.  She just needed to stay the course while her husband completed his MBA at Harvard and the…

McKay Everett was the adored only child of Paulette and Carl Everett. The tight-knit family of three lived a comfortable life in an upscale subdivision in Conroe, Texas, a town just a few miles north…

Heather Rich was only 16-years-old when she was brutally victimized by people she knew and trusted.  A petite and pretty girl with translucent gray-blue eyes, Heather liked to laugh and she enjoyed t…

The disappearance of Scottish mother-of-two Arlene Fraser in April of 1998 alarmed her loved ones and set off rumors and theories throughout her community.  After all, she’d waved goodbye to her chil…

Rick Anderson and his girlfriend Chantina Ginn were carnies, following a travelling carnival from Kansas to Arkansas in September of 1980.  At the campground where the two slept, they met another cou…

Barbara Weaver was raised in a strict Amish community where she learned to be caring and obedient.  She knew her future husband, Eli Weaver, from childhood.  They courted according to their church ru…

Bruce Cleland was a shy, intelligent man who, at age 41, had very little experience with women.  Rebecca Salcedo was younger, extremely manipulative, and very experienced with men. When the two came …

In a classic Keith episode of Dateline, a rural Michigan community searches for a young woman last seen at a Halloween party.  The party took place on acres of farmland with hard rock bands, plenty o…

Richard Marc Evonitz had already abducted three girls from their front yards in Virginia before he took 15-year-old Kara Robinson from her friend’s house in South Carolina. Evonitz had a troubling hi…

Vicki Bader’s divorce from her attorney husband Seth Bader was beyond contentious.  Alimony and child custody issues persisted well after the break up. Vicki, emotionally fragile and at times suicida…

Steven Beard grew up poor in Dallas, Texas. He had ambitions to go to medical school, but he joined the Navy during World War II.  After the war, Steven took a job at a department store.  He met his …

The Story of Debra & Christopher Milke:

Debra Milke was a cute 24-year-old single mother in 1989.  She and her 4-year-old son, Christopher, were living with a friend while Debra prepared to move into…

The Murder of Alan Helmick

On the morning of June 10, 2008, a robbery was staged in the Colorado home of businessman Alan Helmick.  His wife, Miriam, came home to find Alan on the floor in a pool of …

On May 20, 1988, 30-year-old Laurie Dann left poisoned snacks and juice boxes at several houses, started a fire that nearly killed a mother and her two children, and sprayed bullets inside of an elem…

On November 10, 2010, in broad daylight, a man broke into the home of Tina Herrmann and her two young children.  The attacks, murders, and kidnapping that followed were some of the worst crimes in th…

In September 1985, two Muncie, Indiana, teenagers were shot and killed in their car while parked in the popular Westside Park. The murders stunned Muncie families because the victims were well-liked …

Sandra Renee Cantu vanished from her Tracy, California, mobile home park in March of 2009, just weeks after her 8^th birthday.  It was a Friday afternoon.  Sandra left home to play at a friend’s house…