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  • MURDERED: Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short

    MURDERED: Elizabeth "Black Dahlia" Short
    2026/10/19
    On January 15, 1947, Betty Bersinger discovered the bisected, washed and posed body of Elizabeth Short in a vacant lot in Leimert Park, Los Angeles, beginning one of the most infamous unsolved murder investigations in American history. The LAPD cold case unit still lists the case as open, with no perpetrator biological sample ever recovered, no DNA profile possible, and Short's whereabouts in the five days before her death entirely unaccounted for.

    Anyone with information about the murder of Elizabeth Short in Los Angeles in 1947 is asked to contact the LAPD Cold Case Unit at 213-486-6890.
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    47 分
  • SERIAL KILLER: Zodiac Killer

    SERIAL KILLER: Zodiac Killer
    2026/10/17
    In December 1968, two teenagers were shot and killed on Lake Herman Road in Benicia, California, in the first confirmed attack attributed to the Zodiac Killer, an unidentified assailant who went on to murder at least four more people across the San Francisco Bay Area and taunt investigators with coded letters and ciphers for decades. The Zodiac named himself in print, claimed a victim count that was never verified, and was never identified or arrested. The Z340 cipher was solved in 2020, but the Z13 cipher, believed to encode the killer's name, remains unsolved, and no confirmed DNA match has ever been made.

    Anyone with information about the Zodiac killings in the San Francisco Bay Area is urged to contact the Vallejo Police Department at 707-648-4218 or the San Francisco Police Department cold case unit at 415-575-4444.
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    53 分
  • SERIAL KILLER: Richard Ramirez

    SERIAL KILLER: Richard Ramirez
    2026/10/15
    In 1985, Richard Ramirez terrorized Los Angeles and San Francisco, attacking strangers in their homes at night and leaving investigators struggling to connect crimes scattered across multiple jurisdictions. Convicted of 13 murders in 1989, Ramirez died on death row in 2013, but questions about additional attacks examined in other states were never formally resolved, and not all scenes received full forensic review with tools available after trial.

    Anyone with information about unresolved Night Stalker linked cases should contact the Los Angeles County Sheriff Homicide Bureau at 323-890-5500.
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    44 分
  • SERIAL KILLER: Dennis Lynn Rader

    SERIAL KILLER: Dennis Lynn Rader
    2026/10/12
    Between 1974 and 1991, Dennis Rader murdered ten people in Wichita, Kansas, taunting police for years under the name BTK before going silent for over a decade. The case remained unsolved for thirty-one years until a floppy disk Rader sent to a local television station in February 2005 carried metadata linking him directly to Christ Lutheran Church, where he served as congregation president. Investigators still want to know what Rader concealed during the thirteen silent years between 1991 and 2004, and whether anyone who knew him before 2005 noticed something they never reported.

    If you have information about the BTK murders in Wichita, Kansas, please contact the Sedgwick County Sheriff's Office at 316-660-3900.
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    46 分
  • SERIAL KILLER: John Wayne Gacy

    SERIAL KILLER: John Wayne Gacy
    2026/10/10
    In December 1978, fifteen-year-old Robert Piest disappeared after stepping outside a Des Plaines, Illinois pharmacy to speak with a contractor named John Wayne Gacy. What investigators found beneath the floor of Gacy's home in Norwood Park Township led to the conviction of one of the most prolific serial killers in American history, with 33 confirmed victims. Decades later, one victim still has no publicly confirmed name, and the Cook County Sheriff's DNA initiative continues to seek family references that could finally close the last file.

    Anyone with information about a family member who disappeared in the Chicago area during the 1970s and may be connected to this case is encouraged to contact the Cook County Sheriff's Office at 1-800-333-4847.
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    45 分
  • SERIAL KILLER: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer

    SERIAL KILLER: Jeffrey Lionel Dahmer
    2026/10/09
    In 1991, Jeffrey Dahmer was arrested at his Milwaukee apartment after seventeen men and boys were killed there over more than a decade, their remains hidden inside ordinary furniture and appliances. The case raised unresolved questions about whether repeated prior police contacts, including the return of a drugged fourteen-year-old boy to Dahmer's door, could have prevented specific later killings. No formal comprehensive review has fully answered that question.
    Anyone with information about unresolved victim identifications from this case is asked to contact the Milwaukee Police Department cold case unit at 414-935-7360.
    The National Center for Missing and Exploited Children can be reached at 1-800-843-5678.
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    44 分
  • SERIAL KILLER: Ted Bundy

    SERIAL KILLER: Ted Bundy
    2026/10/09
    Beginning in 1974 and continuing across at least seven states, Ted Bundy abducted and murdered dozens of young women while moving freely through campuses and communities, exploiting his intelligence and social charm to evade suspicion for years. Convicted and executed in 1989, Bundy claimed more than 30 victims, but investigators have never confirmed a final count, and some remains linked to his movements have never been identified. Forensic genealogy is now being applied to unidentified remains from the 1970s in the hope of returning names to families still waiting.

    Anyone with information about unresolved disappearances from the 1970s should contact the National Center for Missing and Exploited Persons at 1-800-843-5678.
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    45 分
  • He Said Madeline Soto Walked Into School. She Was in the Passenger Seat.

    He Said Madeline Soto Walked Into School. She Was in the Passenger Seat.
    2026/10/07
    Madeline Soto turned thirteen on a Thursday in February 2024, and had her birthday party that Sunday at her grandmother's house. Every morning she texted her closest friend, who woke up to the messages waiting. On Monday nothing came. That afternoon her mother stood outside Hunter's Creek Middle School and Maddie never walked out. The man who said he had dropped her off had stopped at a dumpster inside their own apartment complex before the drive to school ever began.

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    Madeline "Maddie" Soto, 13, lived in the Venetian Bay community of Kissimmee, Osceola County, Florida. She was last seen on the night of Sunday, February 25, 2024, and was reported missing the evening of Monday the 26th after she failed to arrive at school. Her body was found on March 1 in a wooded area near Saint Cloud. The medical examiner determined she had been strangled and ruled the death a homicide. Stephan Sterns, her mother's longtime boyfriend, was arrested on February 28 on sexual-abuse charges after investigators recovered images and videos from his Google account documenting abuse dating back to 2019, when Maddie was eight. A grand jury indicted him for first-degree murder in April 2024, and prosecutors announced they would seek the death penalty. On July 21, 2025, he pleaded guilty to twenty sex offenses and no contest to first-degree murder — a plea that permits conviction without admitting guilt, meaning he has never acknowledged killing her — and the judge adjudicated him guilty. He received twenty-one concurrent life sentences without the possibility of parole, and the death penalty was withdrawn as part of the agreement. Jennifer Soto, Maddie's mother, was questioned repeatedly, including under an investigative subpoena, and was not charged.

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    This account is drawn from the investigative record: gate and highway surveillance footage, license plate reader data, the forensic search of the complex dumpster, digital forensics on both phones and on the Google account obtained by warrant, the medical examiner's findings, police interviews with family, roommates and school staff, and the July 21, 2025 plea hearing.

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    This episode discusses the sexual abuse of a child. It is described without graphic detail. Maddie's friends and classmates were children at the time and are not named here.
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    18 分