Emily Lane runs a Christmas shop, but her investigative skills suggest another life. Follow the first two seasons through their clues, concealed motives and final revelations.

A discovery at Kersal Dale left detectives searching for a man's identity. Elsewhere, messages appearing to come from Stuart Everett gave his family reasons not to worry.

A child disappears from a country house. Babies are recovered from the Thames. Victorian Psycho draws on real crimes, but its murderous governess is fictional. Explore the cases of Constance Kent and Amelia Dyer, the evidence that exposed them, and the crucial differences between documented history, uncertain victim counts and the horror Virginia Feito created.

Lindsay Clancy’s first trial ended without a verdict. This update examines her reported hospital circumstances, the November court hearing and the arguments over a possible retrial. It separates new legal developments from new evidence and explains why the jury’s 11–1 split cannot tell us what another panel would decide.

Flowers, affectionate messages and a supposed military posting formed the beginnings of an online relationship. Then came instructions for using a Bitcoin ATM.

A neighbour called from the street while sixteen-year-old Matías Bagnato struggled to escape his burning home. The investigation would reach back into months of threats—and lead to a struggle lasting decades.

A phone beside a California road offered the first clue. Sherri Papini’s return brought new questions—and an investigation that continued for years.

Matthew Perry’s death left investigators with a question his treatment history could not answer. Medical findings, private messages and drug transactions would reveal a much larger story.

Police found Ross MacGillivray seriously injured inside an Inverness house. The investigation followed a route towards the canal—and accounts that needed to be tested against independent evidence.

Children reported clowns behind their homes. Schools received threats. Hundreds of students went searching. Follow the investigations behind the 2016 clown panic, the events revisited in Clown Panic, and the difficult task of establishing what actually happened.

Natalee Holloway’s classmates were flying home from Aruba. Her passport and packed luggage were still at the hotel. Follow the investigation through conflicting accounts, failed leads and a mother’s determination to establish what happened.

Sydney Loofe came home after her first date. After the second, she disappeared. The search for a woman called Audrey led investigators from a Tinder profile to a Nebraska apartment, unexplained journeys and accounts of manipulation. Follow the evidence behind Swipe Right on the Devil.

A Louisiana pet cemetery. A woman who vanished before a court hearing. Two witnesses who said her ghost would not leave them alone. Behind HBO’s The Pet Cemetery Murders lies a case where evidence, fear and decades of silence became inseparable.

Cruel orders gain cooperation through more than fear. Trust, group identity, gradual involvement and divided responsibility can all shape what people do. This analysis tests the familiar account of Milgram’s experiments, distinguishes historical explanation from excuse, and asks how modern organisations—including those using AI—can make meaningful refusal possible.

Intelligent people can join cults through ordinary hopes for friendship, purpose or personal growth. The difficulty comes when trust becomes dependence and leaving threatens everything built around the group. NXIVM, Jonestown and Aum Shinrikyo reveal different mechanisms of control, while emerging AI research raises questions about automated persuasion, artificial communities and private digital guidance.

A familiar gaming group, an older voice and a mother asking questions. Follow Breck Bednar’s story through the relationships, warning signs and safeguarding decisions behind the case.

The newly released FBI files on Thomas Matthew Crooks contain drone photographs, phone records and investigative leads. We examine what the evidence reveals about the attempted assassination of Donald Trump — and what remains unanswered.

Three Mexican men have been found guilty of murdering Australian brothers Jake and Callum Robinson and their American friend Carter Rhoad during a 2024 surfing holiday in Baja California. The victims were shot during a robbery and their bodies dumped in a well. After a month-long trial and more than two years of grief, the families now await sentencing on 16 October.

Christa Pike is walking again after surviving Tennessee’s failed lethal injection, but her recovery is far from complete. Her lawyer has described serious injuries and ongoing cognitive difficulties following the attempt to execute her. As investigators examine what went wrong, one extraordinary legal question remains: could the state attempt to execute her again?