This post is the final part of my three-part writeup on the King Parrot Creek Skeleton Woman, who was discovered buried in the banks of a creek in rural Victoria, Australia almost seventy years ago to the day. Despite massive public interest, intensive media coverage, and an enormous police investigation, the woman was never identified and her case gradually slipped …

Somewhere in the remote Pacific Ocean, there’s a place only eels know. It’s a graveyard and a nursery; the beginning and end point for one of nature’s most poetic and mysterious life cycles. It’s a truism that we know more about outer space than Earth’s oceans. This is made evident by an enduring mystery whose resolution has proved as slippery …

Guy was last seen on April 2nd, 1999 at around 3 p.m. in the 2000 block of State Route 11 of the Evans Mills, New York area. That Friday he had driven away from his home on Aitchison Road in Onondaga, telling his wife he was going to visit a relative in Watertown, New York. He reportedly also mentioned visiting …

At 10:45 PM at the San Francisco Park Police Station, a bomb packed with inch long industrial staples exploded on a window ledge. Officer Brian McDonnell was standing nearby at the Teletype machine. McDonnell was hit by staples which cut his jugular vein and lodged in his head. Somehow he wasn’t killed instantly and died two days later. Another officer, …

On the evening of November 26, 2010, in the quiet town of Brembate di Sopra in Lombardy, Italy, 13-year-old Yara Gambirasio disappeared without a trace. Yara, a bright and spirited teenager, was last seen leaving the local sports center after attending a gymnastics class. When she failed to return home, her family grew increasingly worried and contacted the authorities. Yara’s …