Case 230: Rubí Frayre & Marisela Escobedo

*** Content warnings: Child victim, child sexual assault ***On April 22 2003, Queensland police arrived at a suburban home in Brisbane’s Bridgeman Downs to find a confronting scene. Three siblings, Neelma, Kunal and Sidhi Singh, had been killed while their parents were overseas, ...  Show more

*** Content warnings: Sexual assault, racism ***After college student Alice Sebold was violently raped in 1981, a 21-year-old man named Tony Broadwater was promptly arrested and subsequently convicted of the crime. Alice later wrote a powerful memoir about her ordeal, called Luck ...  Show more

It’s 2014, and we’re in Mexico. Twenty-year-old Karen Rodriguez is on her way to meet some friends when she is kidnapped by cartel members. The abductors send a ransom demand to her terrified family, which they pay straight away. However, Karen is never returned. Her mother, Miri ...  Show more

When a young woman disappears after being left alone on a highway, the search for her whereabouts and the resulting aftermath causes a public outcry in her home country of Mexico.

When 36-year-old Maribel Ramos doesn’t show up to her weekly softball game, her friends and family immediately know something is wrong. And that sense of dread only increases when they go to her house, only to discover there’s no trace of her—despite her car still being in the ...

When 26-year-old Prisma Reyes fails to pick up her young son from the babysitter, friends and family know immediately that something is very wrong. The devoted single mother was last seen in the afternoon, entering the garage of an ex-boyfriend’s Dallas apartment building, where ...  Show more