Three months after 22-year-old Clara Olson vanished, her body was discovered in a shallow grave. With her were two letters from Erdman Olson. Authorities had a suspect in her murder, but suddenly, Erdman was nowhere to be found.

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In May of 1926, 21-year-old Clara Olson realized she was pregnant with her boyfriend Erdman Olson’s child. He felt he was too young to get married and didn't want to tarnish his reputation. So he hatched a plan to make sure nobody in his Wisconsin community would ever find out about his unborn child.

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MGM executives manipulated the crime scene before police arrived, so it was no surprise that investigators ruled Paul Bern's death a suicide. But the more that reporters dug in, the more evident it became that Bern was not alone the night he died.

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He spent the 1920s becoming one of Hollywood's most sought-after filmmakers. His professional success and love for his wife, actress Jean Harlow, were everything he ever wanted. So when Paul Bern was found dead in his home with a suicide note nearby, friends wondered if there was more to his story.

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Investigators needed to close the case, so they charged a 27-year-old sailor named John Williams who had loose connections to both murder sites. But when it was time for his trial, Williams didn't show up.

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On a December morning in 1811, Londoners awoke to news of a massacre at a local linen shop. Twelve days later, another gruesome murder occurred just down the road. With no viable suspects and public pressure increasing, police were desperate to arrest anybody they could build a case around.

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Over fifty years after Maria Ridulph was kidnapped and murdered, a suspect was put on trial. Jack McCullough faced charges in September 2012, in the oldest cold case trial in American history. His conviction seemingly laid the question of Maria’s killer to rest. But one attorney wasn’t so sure. 

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Two young girls play in their snowy Chicago suburb in December 1957. Only one of them comes home. Even with the FBI on the case, the leads run cold — until a deathbed confession nearly forty years later changes everything. 

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