An 81-year-old farmer.

A phone call about a loved one in danger.

And a woman in a black Acura looking for the package.

What happens next leaves two families shattered—and one question that still doesn’t have a clear answer.

This is the devastating case of William Brock and Lo-Letha Toland-Hall.

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Sources

• Court TV / Vinnie Politan Investigates — broadcast transcript + case coverage
• Springfield News-Sun — pretrial filings, scam sequence detail, sentencing coverage
• CNN — Lo-Letha Hall profile, Mario Hall interviews, verdict and sentencing reports
• WKBN — William Brock trial testimony coverage
• WDTN — trial day three, verdict report
• WHIO / News Center 7 — indictment, jury selection, sentencing
• Dayton 24/7 Now (WKEF/ABC6) — arrest, arraignment, dashcam release
• WOSU Public Media — post-indictment case summary
• CBS News — verdict and deliberation time
• AP / Springfield News-Sun wire — indictment and charge details
• 10TV Columbus — case coverage
• Clark County Sheriff's Office — incident report, press releases
• Clark County Prosecutor Daniel Driscoll — public statements
• Uber — public statement re: banned account
• FBI — confirmed awareness of case (no further comment per DOJ policy)

In the fall of 1986, five women disappeared from Perth, Australia within just five weeks. With no clear connection between them, police struggled to understand what was happening—until a 17-year-old girl escaped from captivity and led investigators straight to a suburban home hiding unimaginable crimes.

This is the story of Mary Neilson, Susannah Candy, Noelene Patterson Parr, Denise Keren Brown and Kate Moir.

Sources

• Wikipedia — "David and Catherine Birnie"
• The West Australian — "Survivor wants Birnie forgotten"
• ABC News Australia — "Serial killer refused parole"
• Yahoo News Australia — "'Monster' serial killer could get parole"
• Yahoo News Australia — "How a young girl and rookie cop caught serial killers David and Catherine Birnie"
• The Line-Up — "Moorhouse Murders: The Killers May Have Inspired 'Hounds…'"

After a week-long vacation, Lars Mittank should have boarded a flight home to Germany.

Instead, he ran.

What followed was a decade-long mystery filled with paranoia, unanswered questions, and four competing theories, none of which fully explain what happened.

This is the missing persons case of Lars Mittank.

Sources

Wikipedia — Disappearance of Lars Mittank
Crime & Investigation — The Disappearance of Lars Mittank: Overview & Analysis
People — All About Lars Mittank’s Mysterious Disappearance
All That’s Interesting — The Disappearance of Lars Mittank And The Haunting Case
Mirror — Chilling Mystery of the ‘Most Famous Missing Person’
AOL — Lars Mittank Was Last Seen Sprinting Toward a ForestDark Tales — The Disappearance of Lars Mittank
True Crime Society — Lars Mittank Case Overview
Reddit — Lars Mittank Disappearance Discussion (compiled timeline)