True Crime Discovery
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All cases

Listed newest first. Each article ends with its sources; each source is the investigating or custodial authority's own published record.

UnsolvedUnited States1971–present

The D.B. Cooper Hijacking

The only unsolved air piracy in American commercial aviation history — the ransom, the parachutes, the jump, and the $20 bills that turned up nine years later.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation
UnsolvedUnited Kingdom1888–1894

The Whitechapel Murders

The National Archives at Kew holds the surviving Scotland Yard files on the 1888 Whitechapel murders. Here is what is in them, reference by reference.

Source: The National Archives (UK)
BushrangingAustralia1878–1880

Ned Kelly: The Record Behind the Legend

From the Stringybark Creek killings to the Glenrowan siege and the capital case file — what the Victorian Government's own records say about Edward Kelly.

Source: Public Record Office Victoria
KidnappingUnited States1932–1936

The Lindbergh Kidnapping

The 1932 abduction of Charles Lindbergh's infant son, how the ransom bills led investigators to Bruno Richard Hauptmann, and the law the case left behind.

Source: Federal Bureau of Investigation