Section II · The Index
The cases everyone thinks they know.
The cases that escaped the file and entered the culture, names you already half-remember, examined past the headlines and the myth.
8 cases on file · 2 reported in full
In 1982, seven people in the Chicago area died after taking Extra-Strength Tylenol capsules laced with cyanide. The killer was never identified, but the case rewrote how every sealed product is sold.
On the night before Thanksgiving in 1971, a calm, well-dressed man hijacked a jetliner over the Pacific Northwest, parachuted into the dark with $200,000, and vanished, the only unsolved skyjacking in U.S. history.
A 1981 case that helped launch the modern missing-children movement and lasting legal change.
The 1947 Los Angeles murder that became one of the most enduring unsolved cases in American history.
The 1948 Tamam Shud case: an unidentified man on an Australian beach and a decades-long identity mystery.
A long-running serial-murder investigation in Washington State, ultimately solved through DNA evidence.
A 2012 case where online communities of citizen sleuths helped trace a killer first known from internet videos.
A landmark, heavily publicized trial that influenced public perception of the justice system.