A stillness settled over the small town of Nixa, Missouri, abruptly shattered by the disappearance of Jackie Johns, the reigning beauty queen and beloved local figure. The shock deepened when the twenty-year-old was found deceased in a near…

In 1978, Tana Woolley was crowned Miss Rosamond. Yet, barely a few weeks after she moved into her own home, the eighteen-year-old woman was murdered. The question lingered: who could possibly have wished her harm?

When Florida pageant queen and budding model Elizabeth Kenyon vanishes following a photoshoot, her loved ones are gripped by dread. With other beauty queens now also missing, law enforcement suspects a serial killer is at large.

In a quiet college town nestled within Arkansas, the promising young beauty queen, Nona Dirksmeyer, was discovered brutally murdered. The swift apprehension of a suspect—a man found with blood staining his hands—appeared to close the invest…

On the small island of Whidbey, Washington, Peggy Sue Thomas appeared to embody the ideal: a charming beauty queen, devoted wife, and loving mother. Yet, with the sudden, violent death of her best friend’s husband, Peggy unexpectedly found …

Sheila Jo Harris, a Nevada girl who’d traded overalls for tiaras and the life of a tomboy for that of a beauty queen, arrived in a new town pursuing her pageant dreams. Barely had the eighteen-year-old unpacked her belongings in her apartme…