In March 2024, Riley Strain was on a pub crawl with friends on Broadway in Nashville. The 22 year-old left his last bar of the night at just past 9:30 PM. He seemed to vanish only minutes later. Even with cameras retracing his steps through the city, there were gaps in his movements. Witnesses coming forward that could not always be trusted and clues being uncovered that raised more questions than answers. Amateur sleuths online began helping and hurting the investigation.

The last message that Zion Foster sent before she disappeared said that she was on her way home. The teenager told her mother and boyfriend that she was going out that night with her favourite cousin, Jaylin Brazier; something that she did at least twice a month.

The day following her 13th birthday party, Madeline Soto, went missing. The Orange County Sheriff's Office in Florida proceeded on the best and only information they had: the story offered by Maddy’s mother, Jennifer, and her partner, Stephan.

Kootenai County Sheriff’s deputies arrived at the home of Daniel and Kendy Howard around 11PM on February 2, 2021. Dan Howard, a marine and former state trooper was inconsolable. He had just discovered his 48 year-old wife, Kendy, dead in the bathtub.

In the winter of 2020 in Fort Valley Georgia, university senior Anitra Gunn was looking forward to graduating. While studying and working part-time, the thoughtful and hardworking 23 year-old was lining-up job interviews and celebrating milestones with friends.

On October 30th 2011, 44 year-old Karen Swift’s car was found abandoned on the side of rural highway in Northern Dyer County, Tennessee. The mother of four was last seen at her home the night before when she put her 9 year-old daughter to bed. When the kids awoke the next morning their mother was gone. To the frustration of investigators, there was very little indication of what may have happened to Karen; though they suspected early-on that they were dealing with a homicide.

Between the hours of 1:30AM and 4:30AM on Saturday October 21st 2023, 40 year-old Samantha Woll was stabbed to death inside of her townhouse in Detroit, Michigan. A neighbor discovered Sam lying on a walkway outside of her home later that morning where she had managed to crawl before succumbing to her injuries.

For one week in February 2017, communities across Florida, Georgia and Alabama lived in fear of a killer on the run. It was a case that local a Sheriff described as the 'type that law enforcement fear most': a known killer, choosing his victims frequently and randomly.

On a winter morning in February 2019, 50 year-old Lori Phillips awoke at home and couldn’t find her husband. Before she reached the garage to check for his vehicle, Lori spotted something through the window out of the corner of her eye. It was.a dark figure collapsed in the snowbank. She had found her husband.

Sometimes a serial killer will strike and then lay low for a year or more before killing again. Others will travel from city to city, state to state, staying ahead of those hunting them. Some kill in sprees, rushing to pile up victims before local law enforcement finally catches them. But what if one was simply hiding among an uptick in violent crimes and homicides in a city, shielded by statistics and a society becoming too used to street violence? That may well have been what happened in Anchorage, Alaska in the summer of 2016.