Episode 23 They Laughed at Him and Lived. She Believed Him and Died. Two young mothers were running a yard sale on a summer morning in 1983 when a black sports car pulled up. The man who stepped out had a camera around his neck and gold chains glinting at his collar. He was charming, well-dressed, smooth. He told them they could be models. They laughed at him. That laughter saved their lives. The man was Christopher Wilder — and in just nine months, his face would appear on t

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

The day of reckoning for one of America's very worst serial killers

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