Case 66: The Black Widow

*** Content warnings: Domestic violence, suicide ***Dutch national Mark van Dongen met South African Berlinah Wallace in 2010 in Bristol, England. After 5 years together, Mark decided he wanted to end...

When Half and Susanne Zantop were found brutally stabbed to death in their Etna, New Hampshire home, friends, colleagues and investigators were all at a loss to understand it.The married couple were b...

After two planes struck New York City’s World Trade Center on September 11 2001, Tania Head was one of the lucky few who managed to escape from above the impact zone of the South Tower. Saved by laude...

*** Content warnings: Domestic violence ***When freelance writer Louise Ellis disappeared after leaving her Ottawa home on April 22 1995, the person leading the search for her was her devoted partner,...

*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty, gun violence ***43-year-old Graham Backhouse lived a peaceful life with his wife and children on Widden Hill Farm in Horton, England. But in 1984, a campaign of h...

When Dutch friends Kris Kremers and Lisanne Froon set out for a six-week adventure in Panama in 2014, they were ready for the trip of a lifetime. But after failing to show up for a planned tour in the...

*** Content warnings: Child victim, sexual assault ***In 2004, several young girls around Fort Wayne, Indiana received handwritten letters threatening that they would be the next victim of a child kil...

*** Content warnings: Racial violence, sexual assault ***In June of 2020, London social worker Bibaa Henry decided to celebrate her 46th birthday with a picnic at scenic Fryent Country Park. Celebrati...

*** Content warnings: Animal cruelty ***On a hot summer’s day in 1989, a father and son travelling through Stockton, California, discover a VHS tape left by the side of a road. When they take it home ...