In 2014, 14-year-old Breck Bednar was groomed and murdered by 18-year-old Lewis Daynes after meeting through online gaming. Despite his mother’s desperate warning to police, the case was closed in an hour. This is the full story of manipulation, isolation, and tragedy—and how the Breck Foundation is now teaching children and parents to stay safe online.
The Girl Who Never Made It to the Mall
On a quiet winter afternoon in 1964, sixteen-year-old Beverly Jarosz returned home to get ready for an outing with friends; by dusk, her father would find her dead in her bedroom—her murder still unsolved six decades later.
Bundy’s Youngest Victim: The Vanishing of Susan Curtis
In June 1975, fifteen-year-old Susan Curtis disappeared from a youth conference at Brigham Young University. Ted Bundy confessed to killing her years later, but her body was never found.
After 44 Years, Piru’s Jane Doe Has Been Identified Through DNA
For forty-four years, the young woman found shot to death in a Ventura County orchard was known only as Piru Jane Doe. In 2025, she was finally named — Maria Belmontes Blancas — her story a quiet fracture in a town where violence rarely came.
A Colorado Mystery: The Disappearance and Discovery of Terri Ackerman
For seven years, Terri Ackerman’s family searched Colorado for her, not knowing she was closer than anyone imagined—buried in the yard she had once tended.
A Barmaid’s Final Shift and the Island Mystery That Followed
A Filipino bartender’s final shift on Saipan ended with a call for help that never finished.
For Seven Days, She Called Home. Then the Line Went Dead.
For seven nights in June 2006, a nursing student’s voice drifted through the static of late-night phone calls—calm, careful, and never free.
The Detective, The Journalist, and the Killer: Suspects in the Circleville Case
Beginning in 1976, an anonymous letter writer terrorized Circleville, Ohio, exposing secrets and threatening lives. After one death and an attempted murder by booby trap, police convicted Paul Freshour. Yet, the letters continued to arrive while he was imprisoned, turning the case into one of America's most perplexing cold cases. Decades later, the true identity of the writer remains a mystery.
He Left Everything Behind — Even His Teeth. What Happened to Marc Fullerton?
On June 3, 2020, in the quiet farm town of Braggadocio, Missouri, thirty-five-year-old Marc Fullerton stepped out of his girlfriend’s house and vanished. He left behind his truck, his phone, his dentures, and a broken cross necklace—signs not of escape, but of something violently unfinished.
The Name on the Bomb: The Unsolved Soka Jiro Incident
In 1962 Tokyo, ordinary objects began turning dangerous: envelopes, books, cylinders, and fan mail. Each carried the same unsettling signature: Soka Jiro, or perhaps Kusaka Jiro. The unknown attacker injured strangers, threatened celebrities, bombed a subway train, and disappeared into one of Japan’s most haunting unsolved cases.
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