In 1999, Miriam Illes, a forty-seven-year-old Sunday school teacher, was shot by a sniper through her kitchen window in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. A tangle of confusing evidence and anonymous, handwritten letters initially obscured the inv…

In 1985, Linda Brown, a young mother of twenty-three, was found shot dead in her bedroom. Her fourteen-year-old stepdaughter, Cinnamon, confessed to the crime, seemingly bringing the case to a swift conclusion. Yet, detectives felt uneasy; …

In 1996, Thien Minh Ly, a twenty-four-year-old Vietnamese-American graduate student, went rollerblading on Super Bowl night and vanished. He was later discovered fatally stabbed on the tennis courts of Tustin High School. The investigation …

On July 9th, 2004, at eleven o’clock in the evening, Jarrod Davidson, a twenty-seven-year-old graduate student and young father, was shot with a high-powered rifle just outside his Santa Barbara apartment. Beside him lay an unusual potted p…

In 1994, Bill McLaughlin, a fifty-five-year-old millionaire from Newport Beach, was shot dead within his own mansion. The intensely personal nature of the killing, and the discovery of keys left at the scene, suggested an assailant known to…

In 2004, Julie Keown, age thirty-one, succumbed to antifreeze poisoning in Waltham, Massachusetts. Initially, detectives dismissed the possibility of suicide or accidental consumption. However, as they began to unravel a complex series of d…