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    Unsolved crimes, kidnappings left without resolution, and mysteries that will keep any internet sleuth puzzling all through the night.

    15 Unsolved True Crime Cases that Haunt Our Readers

    15 Unsolved True Crime Cases that Haunt Our Readers

    It's the unanswered questions that consume us...

    Serial Killers

    By Kelsey Christine McConnell

    Unsolved Crimes

    The Tragic Unresolved Murder of Sharmini Anandavel 

    The Tragic Unresolved Murder of Sharmini Anandavel 

    By Orrin Grey

    Family Murders

    Little Girl Lost: The Heartbreaking (and Unsolved) Short Family Murders 

    Little Girl Lost: The Heartbreaking (and Unsolved) Short Family Murders 

    By Orrin Grey

    Unsolved Crimes

    UNSOLVED: The Horrific 1986 Killing of Shawn Edwards 

    UNSOLVED: The Horrific 1986 Killing of Shawn Edwards 

    By Orrin Grey

    Unsolved Crimes

    More Questions Than Answers in the Horrific Anaqua Springs Ranch Shooting 

    More Questions Than Answers in the Horrific Anaqua Springs Ranch Shooting 

    By Jena Brown

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    Murder in Paradise: Jamaica’s “Mad Doctor” Lewis Hutchinson

    Murder in Paradise: Jamaica’s “Mad Doctor” Lewis Hutchinson

    Jamaica's first recorded serial killer lured his victims into a private castle on the hill, where he dismembered their bodies and even drank their blood.

    By Steven Casale

    Cemeteries

    Margaret Morton and Kyrgyzstan’s Ancestral Cemeteries

    Margaret Morton and Kyrgyzstan’s Ancestral Cemeteries

    Journey to the mountains of Kyrgyzstan, where eerie monuments to the deceased line the hills.

    By Matthew Thompson

    The Brutal Murder that Started 9-1-1

    The Brutal Murder that Started 9-1-1

    In 1964, Kitty Genovese was stabbed and killed in her New York City apartment building, and 38 witnesses did nothing to help her.

    By Nina Lassam

    CW

    Most Wanted List: 7 Surprising Facts About Cannibalism

    Most Wanted List: 7 Surprising Facts About Cannibalism

    Care to take a bite?

    By The Lineup Staff

    Return to Leakin Park: 6 Intriguing Developments After “Serial”

    Return to Leakin Park: 6 Intriguing Developments After “Serial”

    ay Wilds gave a revealing interview and Adnan has been granted another appeal. But what else has happened since the "Serial" podcast ended?

    By The Lineup Staff

    Honest Abe’s Not-so-True Crime Tale

    Honest Abe’s Not-so-True Crime Tale

    Three brothers are accused of murder after an Illinois man vanishes in this sensationalized true crime story penned by Abraham Lincoln.

    By Abraham Lincoln

    Thriller Books

    Most Wanted List: The Great Suicide Con of 1859

    Most Wanted List: The Great Suicide Con of 1859

    Midwestern drifter A.V. Lamartine traveled from town to town in search of a sucker to nurse him back to health.

    By The Lineup Staff

    7 Prisoners Who Found Love Behind Bars

    7 Prisoners Who Found Love Behind Bars

    Some relationships defy all logic. These are seven such stories.

    By Steven Casale

    How Not to Get Away with Murder: The Case of Ruth Snyder and Henry “Judd” Gray

    How Not to Get Away with Murder: The Case of Ruth Snyder and Henry “Judd” Gray

    Bored housewife Ruth Snyder thought she had hatched a clever plot to kill her husband – until she blundered her way through the entire thing.

    By The Lineup Staff

    This is the Photo That Makes Me Lock My Doors at Night

    This is the Photo That Makes Me Lock My Doors at Night

    After browsing Reddit late one night, the author stumbled across an image she wished she could unsee.

    By Chrissy Stockton

    Historical Crimes

    Little House of Murder: The Bloody Benders

    Little House of Murder: The Bloody Benders

    In the 1870s, Kansas was settled by wholesome homesteaders – and a family of serial killers called The Bloody Benders.

    By Steven Casale

    Unexplained

    The Vanishing Crew of the Carroll A. Deering: A Maritime Mystery

    The Vanishing Crew of the Carroll A. Deering: A Maritime Mystery

    In 1921, the ship was spotted in North Carolina under suspicious circumstances. Days later, the crew and their belongings had disappeared – for good.

    By Elisabeth Tilstra

    Behind the Veil: How We Dress for Death

    Behind the Veil: How We Dress for Death

    This month The Metropolitan Museum of Art pays respect to a century of mourning attire with the exhibition Death Becomes Her.

    By Jennifer Jackson

    What’s the Real Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Death?

    What’s the Real Story Behind Edgar Allan Poe’s Death?

    Was it alcoholism, rabies, or a violent election day scam? More than 160 years later, the burning question remains: What killed Edgar Allan Poe?

    By Matthew Thompson

    Creepy Photos

    Killer Ink: Decoding Russian Criminal Tattoos

    Killer Ink: Decoding Russian Criminal Tattoos

    Get up close and personal with Russian gangsters and their intricate – and meaningful – body art.

    By The Lineup Staff

    Crime and No Punishment in Prohibition-Era New York

    Crime and No Punishment in Prohibition-Era New York

    Author and Prohibition-era expert Michael Mayo finds the ghosts of mob bosses past in modern-day New York City.

    By Michael Mayo

    Mystery

    Born to Be Wild: The Original Hells Angels Biker Gangs

    Born to Be Wild: The Original Hells Angels Biker Gangs

    Hit the road with the Hells Angels in these killer vintage snapshots.

    By The Lineup Staff

    Kate Webster: A Real-Life Sweeney Todd Story

    Kate Webster: A Real-Life Sweeney Todd Story

    In 1879, Irish housekeeper Kate Webster killed her employer, boiled her body, and fed the fat to small children.

    By Jennifer Jackson

    Murder in a Nutshell: Frances Glessner Lee and her Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths

    Murder in a Nutshell: Frances Glessner Lee and her Nutshell Studies of Unexplained Deaths

    Step inside Lee's shrunken world of unsolved murders.

    By Matthew Thompson

    The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack

    The Legend of Spring-Heeled Jack

    He terrified young women in Victorian England with his clawed hands, fiery breath, and ability to leap onto tall buildings.

    By The Lineup Staff

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