The distance was nothing. That is the part that still makes the story feel impossible. A half-block from home to school. A stretch of sidewa...

When we try to understand a disappearance like that of Susan Anne Swedell, the temptation is to start at the end. The gas station. The unide...

Joshua Guimond disappeared inside a distance so short it still feels impossible. The walk from Metten Court to St. Maur House on the campus ...

For a long time, Minnesota told this story as a story about innocence. A small town. Three boys on bikes. A video rental on a Sunday night. ...

She arrived in Hibbing as a daughter first, not a headline. On Friday, June 13, 1969, Barbara Jean Paciotti—twenty years old, barely 4 feet ...

On the afternoon of June 14, 2003, in the Iron Range town of Chisholm, a 5-year-old girl set out on a walk that should have taken no more th...

Philadelphia is a city that breathes through its pores—the scent of exhaust, the heavy aroma of baking bread in South Philly, and the salt-s...