Helle Crafts was a Danish-born flight attendant who built a globe-trotting career before settling into family life in Connecticut. When she vanished after returning from an international flight, the explanations given didn’t match the woman her friends and colleagues knew. What followed was an investigation that uncovered unsettling clues and turned a missing person's case into one of the most haunting stories of its time.   

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Stories of the Unsolved writers, “The Murder of Helle Crafts”, Stories of the Unsolved, November 14th, 2018, https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2018/11/14/the-murder-of-helle-crafts/, Accessed January 18th, 2026  

McConnell, Kelsey Christine, “The Woodchipper Murder of Helle Crafts Led to Connecticut's First Murder Conviction Without a Body”, The Lineup, December 6th, 2024, https://the-line-up.com/the-murder-of-helle-crafts, Accessed January 18th, 2026  

Gifford, Storm, “Woodchipper murderer Richard Crafts out of prison”, NY Daily News, January 31, 2020, https://www.nydailynews.com/2020/01/31/woodchipper-murderer-richard-crafts-out-of-prison/, Accessed January 18th, 2026