The Chowchilla School Bus Kidnapping: One of America’s Most Shocking Crimes
In 1976, a crime unfolded in California that would horrify the nation and permanently change the lives of dozens of children. It became known as...


















In 1976, a crime unfolded in California that would horrify the nation and permanently change the lives of dozens of children. It became known as...
During the 19th century (the 1800s), matches became an essential household item in Britain and the United States. Factories produced millions of “strike-anywhere” matches, and...
One night in 1946, Stanislaw M. Ulam, a mathematician and physicist originally from Poland, suddenly woke up with a terrible headache. From his hotel room,...
A young woman from Sweden posted an anonymous ad on Craigslist. She confidently described herself as exceptionally beautiful, charming, and seductive. In her post, she...
He never imagined his life would turn out this way—just him and his daughter against the world. Becoming a single father wasn’t a choice he...
My name was Monia Delpero.I was nineteen years old. I had my whole life ahead of me. On the evening of December 13, 1989, I...
Today, while I was picking up my daughter from play school, her teacher asked to speak with me. “Shefali, there’s something I want to tell...
September 9, 2001 was the day I ran away from home for good. I was seventeen years old, and I never saw my mother again....
I was having lunch at Zaxby’s when I overheard a young man laughing about an older man in the bathroom. He was joking that the...
Dallas French, a new mom from Dover, Arkansas, was out to dinner at Olive Garden with her baby daughter, Ellee, when something unexpected happened. While...