Solved Case
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The Decades-Long Mystery of the Sumter County Highway 341 Murders
For forty-five years, two travelers lay unidentified in South Carolina. Modern genetic genealogy finally revealed their names and their tragic end.
The Final Hours of the Romanovs in Yekaterinburg
The execution of Tsar Nicholas II and his family in the Ipatiev House marked a definitive and brutal end to three centuries of Romanov rule, sparking decades of mystery and scientific discovery.
The Kidnapping of Brooke Hart and the 1933 San Jose Lynching
How a brutal California kidnapping ended in a vigilante mob and a controversial state-sanctioned execution.
The Long Road to Justice for Six-Year-Old Etan Patz
For four decades, the disappearance of a young boy in SoHo remained one of the nation's most haunting cold cases before a breakthrough revealed the truth.
The 1976 Chowchilla Bus Kidnapping and the Harrowing Underground Escape
On a sweltering July day in 1976, a school bus vanished with 26 children inside. What followed was a daring escape from a buried prison that would change California law forever.
The Long Shadow of the Grim Sleeper
For over two decades, a serial killer haunted South Los Angeles, leaving a trail of death that seemed impossible to trace until a revolutionary DNA breakthrough changed criminal justice forever.
The Gainesville Ripper: A City of Terror and the Hunt for Danny Rolling
In 1990, the University of Florida was besieged by a series of horrific murders that forever changed the quiet college town of Gainesville.
The Long Search for Justice in the Adam Walsh Case
Twenty-seven years after a young boy vanished from a Florida mall, authorities closed the file on one of America's most haunting child abductions.
The Long Shadow of the Green River Killer
How a decades-long trail of tragedy in Washington state finally reached a chilling conclusion through modern science and a massive plea deal.
The Dark Legacy of Luis Alfredo Garavito in Colombia
How a nationwide search for a predator uncovered the horrific truth behind Colombia's most notorious serial killer.
The Wrongful Death Row Imprisonment of Kirk Bloodsworth
Kirk Bloodsworth became the first American death row inmate exonerated by DNA, forever changing the landscape of criminal justice and proving that the system is not infallible.
The Long Road to Identifying the Bear Brook Murders Victims
Decades after two barrels were discovered in an Allenstown forest, the identity of the final victim, Rea Rasmussen, has finally been confirmed through genetic genealogy.