Episode 26 The official count stopped at nine. These are the women the world was never meant to remember. Mindy and her father Mindy was four years old the day her mother dropped her at daycare and walked away into the crowd. She cried and cried. A teacher told her she was just throwing a tantrum. She wasn't. Somehow, even at four, she knew. Her mother, Terry Walden, never came to pick her up. Christopher Wilder had taken her. Forty years later, Mindy is the only one who stil

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

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