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...

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...

I have learned to be suspicious of cases with too few details. When a young person vanishes and the record feels thin, the silence is rarely...

The disappearance of Jennifer Joyce Kesse, a 24-year-old finance manager from Orlando, Florida, represents one of the most challenging and e...

On February 10, 2009, a 5-year-old child named Haleigh Cummings was reported missing from her home in Satsuma, a small unincorporated commun...