Alissa Turney vanished the last day of her junior year in high school after going to lunch with her stepfather, who has been accused of causing the missing woman harm.
Grey's Anatomy writers believed Elisabeth Finch was drawing from her own painful cancer battle as she wrote for the popular medical drama, but her health battles would turn out to be nothing but a work of fiction.
"None of it felt real," Aya Altantawi said of finding her mom, Nada Huranieh, dead on the patio of their sprawling Michigan home — and the shocker that came next.
Jack Unterweger was known as a reformed killer and respected crime journalist in Austria until it was discovered that he was reporting on his own horrific acts.
Anton Black was struggling with his mental health when an incident with a younger boy prompted witnesses to call police, but what happened next divided the town of Greensboro, Maryland.
Pete Coones tragically died just 108 days after his murder conviction was vacated. He was imprisoned after allegedly being framed for the deaths of Kathleen and Carl Schroll.
Before gubernatorial candidate Steve Pankey was linked to the brutal murder of 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews, he displayed odd behavior and inserted himself into the investigation.