Kidnapping of Korea's Shining Star (Case of N...

The emergency dispatcher answered a call on July 12, 2023. "If I’m a high school senior, and I’m seventeen years old, and I haven't had my birthday yet... if someone commits murder, do they get a five-year sentence? If I confess, can I get a reduction?" When the police arrived, t ...  Show more

In August 1997, police responded to an emergency and found a woman unconscious in a pool of blood. Thirty-five meters away, behind a temporary construction wall, her coworker Go Chun-ja lay beneath a zelkova tree undiscovered until the following morning. On the other side of Jeju ...  Show more

She couldn’t believe it. They wanted her to write a letter to her kidnappers thanking them for all that they have done for her. 

May 27, 2023. 3AM. South Korea.

A taxi driver pulled over to put up a young girl and her suitcase. He watched her struggle to load it into his trunk, but when he offered to help she refused.

They got in the car and silently drove towards the park near the river.

You want us to do what? - the couple had been kidnapped and forced to live in North Korea for years before they found out the truth. 

When Sherri Papini vanished during a jog in 2016, the search gripped the nation. Morgan and Kaelyn revisit the twists in this bizarre kidnapping case: a frantic husband’s 911 call, a nationwide hunt, Sherri’s shocking roadside reappearance, and the clues—DNA, text messages, and a ...  Show more