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Crime & Mystery

Unsolved crimes, disappearances and the evidence that refuses to settle.

The coroner thought an intelligence officer found dead in a padlocked holdall had probably been killed, but the police concluded he died alone.

Julia Wallace was killed in her Liverpool parlour while her husband searched for a man who did not exist, and his alibi became the case against him.

An occult writer claimed to have decoded the Whitechapel murders as black magic, and later writers named him as the Ripper himself.

Why did nine experienced hikers cut their way out of their tent on a Ural mountainside and walk into the freezing dark?

The theft of Ireland’s crown jewels on the eve of a royal visit ended one official’s career, but neither the jewels nor the thief was ever found.

Four boys found a woman’s skull inside a Worcestershire tree, beginning a mystery of anonymous messages, suspected spies and alleged witchcraft.

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