Why Christopher Wilder does not measure against Bundy — he measures past him By Regan Hunt Ted Bundy Christopher Wilder For half a century, Ted Bundy has been the bar, the figure against whom every serious offender is measured: the charming, intelligent predator who hid in plain sight. Measured against him, Christopher Bernard Wilder does not merely reach that bar. On dimension after dimension, he clears it. The closer I l

EPISODE 25 Two Girls Named Mary: The Mall Murders Hiding in Plain Sight Mary Opitz She left a bag of pretzels on the roof of her mother's car. That was the last trace of her. It was January 1981, at the Edison Mall in Fort Myers, Florida. Seventeen-year-old Mary Opitz had spent the afternoon shopping with her mother, Nancy, and her older brother Chris, hunting for a birthday present for a family friend. Mary got tired. Mary took the shopping from her mother, said she'd wait a

EPISODE 22 The Woman No One Has Ever Claimed Ellery Jane Doe We don't know what she was thinking when she wrote it. We don't know if her hand was steady or shaking. We only know that whoever killed her was careful — careful enough to strip away everything that could ever identify her. Her name. Her papers. Anything that might have told the world who she was. But he missed the scrap of paper in her pocket. For forty-three years, that note has been the only thing she left behin

Episode 20 The Day Beth Dodge's New Life Was Stolen — For a Car Beth Dodge on her wedding day Beth Dodge had a smile people still talk about forty years on. She was 33 years old, a devoted single Mom, a brilliant data analyst, and weeks away from the job of a lifetime. Mobil Chemicals were sending her to Saudi Arabia to set up a new plant — a fresh start for her and her four-year-old daughter Stephanie. A whole new country. A whole new chapter. A whole new life. She never got

Sixteen-year-old Tina Risico spent nine terrifying days travelling across America with a serial killer on a murderous rampage - and survived to tell her story.