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The Train Robbers and the Monopoly Board
A red signal stopped the Glasgow-to-London mail train. A few days later, a farmhouse full of ordinary objects gave investigators a trail to follow.
Th…
18 hours ago
The Money They Could Not Share
The Brink's robbers carried a fortune out of Boston in 1950. Years later, one of them was in jail, asking his partners for help with his legal bills.…
3 days, 13 hours ago
The Man Who Walked Out with the Mona Lisa
A worker removes a portrait from the Louvre. More than two years later, a letter signed Leonard V. leads to a Florence hotel room and the recovery of…
1 week ago
Flight 19: The Journey That Did Not Come Home
Five Navy aircraft left Florida for a training exercise in December 1945. Their radio messages point toward navigational trouble. This episode follow…
1 week, 6 days ago
The Night Someone Took Over Chicago Television
On November 22, 1987, two Chicago television stations were interrupted by an unauthorized signal. Engineers restored the picture, but a verified iden…
2 weeks ago
Mary Celeste: A Ship Without Its People
(00:00:00) Welcome and the empty ship
(00:00:57) The voyage and ten people
(00:01:33) The last log entry
(00:01:46) The discovery
(00:02:40) The surv…
2 weeks, 1 day ago
Alcatraz: The Escape That Never Reached an Ending
Three false heads hid three empty beds. Follow Frank Morris and the Anglin brothers through the 1962 Alcatraz escape, and the evidence that cannot te…
2 weeks, 2 days ago
The Gardner Museum Heist: Thirteen Works, Empty Frames
Two men in police uniforms entered a Boston museum in March 1990. Eighty-one minutes later, thirteen works of art were gone. Their empty frames remai…
2 weeks, 3 days ago
The Flannan Isles: Three Keepers, One Silent Lighthouse
The lamp was prepared and the kitchen was tidy, but three keepers were gone. Follow the original Flannan Isles records, the damaged landing equipment…
2 weeks, 4 days ago
Somerton Man: The Book, the Beach, and a Name
A tiny scrap of poetry led investigators from an Adelaide beach to a book, a telephone number, and a convincing lead that collapsed. Decades later, D…
2 weeks, 5 days ago