For those who call the mountain hollows of Townsend, Tennessee home, family is paramount. Now, with the discovery of a murdered member of the sprawling Griffin family and another vanished without a trace, investigators are beginning to wond…

In the small Kansas town of Horton, where neighbors can live miles apart, word spreads quickly when Patricia Kimmi vanishes from her house. The evidence suggests investigators fear she will not be recovered alive. Even more troubling is the…

The discovery of a mother of four, brutally tortured and murdered within her own home, shattered the sense of security in Northport, Washington—a town where residents had long believed their distance from the world offered protection.

Nearly five hundred people comprise the population of Laurel, Indiana, and most share ties of kinship or a lifetime of shared experience. Consequently, when the Napier family is discovered murdered in their house, a palpable terror grips th…

As popular Tim Moore of South Bend, Indiana, disappeared on a frigid November evening, the townspeople began to suspect that their sense of community might be built on shaky ground.

The quiet Midwestern town of Colon, Nebraska, was shaken to its core when Sharron Erickson, a beloved longtime resident, was discovered raped and murdered. The unthinkable brutality of the crime left the small community reeling, struggling …

Clay County, Alabama, remains an anomaly as the last dry county within the state—a place seemingly untouched by the passage of time. When bootlegger Billy Triplett and his wife are found dead in the small town of Barfield, suspicion immedia…

The discovery of Diana Algar and Jose Molina, slain in a brutal attack within the quiet farmlands of Hollenback Township, Pennsylvania, focused immediate attention on three words hastily written upon her living room wall—a cryptic message t…

The people of Guffey, Colorado, hold a deep affection for their secluded mountain community, primarily because of the tranquility offered by the surrounding Rockies. This serenity is brutally disrupted one January evening when Carl and JoAn…

When Angela and Ashley Hyke vanished on a sweltering summer night, and investigators discovered candles still alight within their house, friends and family understood that something deeply disturbing had occurred. The solution to this perpl…