MISSING: The Martin Family

In July 1985, 29 year-old Gail Katz-Bierenbaum told a friend she was leaving her husband. She had apartment listings circled, money borrowed, and a psychiatrist’s written warning that her husband might kill her. The next day, she vanished. Her husband, Dr. Robert Bierenbaum, clai ...  Show more

In the 1990s, women began disappearing from Vancouver’s Downtown East Side: many of them Indigenous, many of them sex workers, many of them dismissed as transient or unreliable. A survivor of a violent 1997 attack identified her assailant as pig farmer Robert Pickton, but the cha ...  Show more

You know their names: the Unabomber and Son of Sam. Two of the most recognizable killers in history, both using the press to amplify fear. In 1995, Ted Kaczynski’s manifesto hits the Washington Post, and in 1977, David Berkowitz’s letter rattles the New York Post. We trace how th ...  Show more

In 1983, 15-year-old Emanuela Orlandi vanished from Vatican City...and never came home. For decades, her family searched for answers. What they uncovered pointed to something far darker than a kidnapping. In this episode, "Conspiracy Theories, Cults, & Crimes" takes a deep dive i ...  Show more

Nathan Matthews murdered his 16-year-old stepsister Becky Watts—then helped her family search for her. In Part 2, we break down the failed cover-up, the forensic clues that exposed him, and how the truth about one of Britain’s most disturbing family murders finally came to light. ...  Show more

In October of 1989, a young boy went missing from a small town in Minnesota. As time ticked on, and no leads were found, the town, and the nation, grew desperate. However, when the answers to their questions were finally revealed, people were shocked at how their suspect had been ...  Show more