Case 230: Rubí Frayre & Marisela Escobedo

*** Content warnings: Child abuse, crimes against children, sexual assault ***When 10-year-old Zahra Baker was reported missing by her father and stepmum in Hickory, North Carolina, one Saturday afternoon in 2010, it sparked the largest missing persons investigation in the city's ...  Show more

*** Content warnings: Child abduction ***When 13-year-old Megumi Yokota failed to return home from her regular badminton practice on November 15 1977, her parents immediately raised the alarm.The police in Niigata, Japan, conducted one of the city’s largest ever investigations, b ...  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