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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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    Zombies

    Clairvius Narcisse: The Real-life Vodou Zombie of Haiti

    Clairvius Narcisse: The Real-life Vodou Zombie of Haiti

    Eighteen years after family members buried his body, Clairvius Narcisse returned from the dead.

    By Orrin Grey

    Bizarre Travel

    Death in Eyam: The Tragic Tale of England’s Plague Village

    Death in Eyam: The Tragic Tale of England’s Plague Village

    When the Black Plague arrived at Eyam's doorstep, its villagers were forced to choose between life or certain doom...

    By Stephanie Almazan

    Urban Legends

    4 Freaky Cases of Skeletons Found in Unlikely Places

    4 Freaky Cases of Skeletons Found in Unlikely Places

    You never know what you’ll unearth in your own backyard…

    By Orrin Grey

    Urban Legends

    The Legend of Bloody Mary

    The Legend of Bloody Mary

    They say if you chant her name three times, a bloodied face will appear...

    By Stephanie Almazan

    Historical Crimes

    The Disappearance of Charley Ross

    The Disappearance of Charley Ross

    In 1874, little Charley Ross followed two strangers into a buggy and vanished from the streets of Philadelphia, never to be seen again.

    By Steven Casale

    Best Of

    The Lineup’s Creepiest Stories of 2015

    The Lineup’s Creepiest Stories of 2015

    From mummified dream girls to phantom killers and little houses of murder, these creepy stories still send shivers down our spine.

    By The Lineup Staff

    Witchcraft

    The Pendle Witches: England’s Deadly Witch Hunt Hysteria

    The Pendle Witches: England’s Deadly Witch Hunt Hysteria

    In 1612, a fear of witchcraft swept across northwest England and sent eleven souls to their deaths.

    By Stephanie Almazan

    Paranormal

    The Blood-Soaked Legend of the Gardette-LePrete Mansion

    The Blood-Soaked Legend of the Gardette-LePrete Mansion

    In 1836, an unsuspecting passerby entered the Gardette-LePrete mansion and uncovered a scene of unimaginable horror.

    By Adam Karlin

    A Miscarriage of Justice Finally Rectified

    A Miscarriage of Justice Finally Rectified

    In 1964, three civil rights workers were murdered in cold blood ... and the mastermind behind it all walked away a free man.

    By Fred Rosen

    True Crime Books

    Who Killed Karen Silkwood?

    Who Killed Karen Silkwood?

    She fought to expose the hazardous conditions of the Kerr-McGee nuclear facility—and just may have paid for it with her life.

    By Grace Srinivasiah

    Ravenous Spirit: China’s Hungry Ghost Festival

    Ravenous Spirit: China’s Hungry Ghost Festival

    In the month of the hungry ghost, the dead bleed into the land of the living.

    By Adam Karlin

    Unexplained

    Cold, Starving, and Alone: The Lost Franklin Expedition

    Cold, Starving, and Alone: The Lost Franklin Expedition

    In 1845, the doomed Franklin expedition set sail for the Northwest Passage, never to be seen again.

    By Elisabeth Tilstra

    Crime Feed

    Woman Declared Dead in 1989 Found Alive Long After Man Confesses to Killing Her

    Woman Declared Dead in 1989 Found Alive Long After Man Confesses to Killing Her

    Authorities presumed Petra Pazsitka was dead after a convicted killer confessed to her murder. That is, until she turned up alive and living under a false name.

    By Crime Feed

    Crime Feed

    Decades-Old Murder Case Solved Thanks to John Wayne Gacy Investigation

    Decades-Old Murder Case Solved Thanks to John Wayne Gacy Investigation

    A California murder mystery has been cracked thanks to recently released evidence from the John Wayne Gacy Jr. case.

    By Crime Feed

    Witchcraft

    Before Salem: The Bewitching History of America’s First Witch Hunt

    Before Salem: The Bewitching History of America’s First Witch Hunt

    Decades before the Salem witch trials, nearly a dozen individuals were put to death in colonial Connecticut for suspected sorcery.

    By Elisabeth Tilstra

    Best Of

    Deacon of Death: Sam Smithers

    Deacon of Death: Sam Smithers

    The community knew the clergyman as a loving husband and father, but underneath his vestment was a sex-crazed, sociopathic killer.

    By Fred Rosen

    Crime Feed

    Genius or Criminal? 5 Luminaries Who Couldn’t Stay out of Trouble

    Genius or Criminal? 5 Luminaries Who Couldn’t Stay out of Trouble

    From embezzlement to drug busts, these creative souls had a dark side.

    By Crime Feed

    Crime Feed

    1,000-Year-Old Skeleton of Possible Murder Victim Found in Roots of Fallen Tree

    1,000-Year-Old Skeleton of Possible Murder Victim Found in Roots of Fallen Tree

    You never know what's buried in your own backyard.

    By Crime Feed

    Jack The Ripper

    Jack the Rippers From Around the World

    Jack the Rippers From Around the World

    We see London, we see France, we see a Russian granny chopping up bodies with her bare hands.

    By DeAnna Janes

    “I Was Childhood Friends with a Cold-Blooded Killer”

    “I Was Childhood Friends with a Cold-Blooded Killer”

    Horror author Dale Bailey knew his friend Eddie was dangerous ... but he still wasn't prepared to discover the man was a murderer.

    By Dale Bailey

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