True Crime Stories

"Love as powerful as your mother's for you leaves its own mark. To have been loved so deeply, even though the person who loved us is gone, will give us some protection forever."

-J.K. Rowling

"We had a real sense of dread that this was the way it was going to end up and we were saddened when we found the body to confirm our fears. These cases are just senseless violence." 

- Montgomery County Police Chief Tom Manger

“It’s only in retrospect that you can see the path from allegedly stealing underwear from school lockers to abduction, stabbing, and rape. It is the culture of secrecy regarding sexual...

"The world is a dangerous place to live." - Albert Einstein It was the 21st of May 2016. A Saturday. Thirty five year old Douglass Detrie went to the police...

"When someone just disappears for no reason, it's shocking, it's devastating. I just feel like my life stopped that day and I've just been in a tailspin ever since."

- Adam Vaughan, Janine's brother

"Japan is a modern society. Surely somebody cannot just disappear in this country."  -Bill Hawker, Lindsay's father It was the 24th of March 2007. A Saturday. The family of twenty...

"I just had this really bad feeling about her going to Japan."

- Jane Steare, Lucie's mother

"Dalton, is Mollie alive?"