Joe the Quilter met a grisly end—and his story is being retold centuries later.

MYSTERY
The saga of the 1972 skyjacking gets another twist.
Kate Jackson's identity was ever-shifting. But to police and a jury, she was a murder case that has yet to be solved.
Why did a war hero assume the identity of an 8-year-old boy killed in a traffic accident?
When the victim had the chance to name his killer, he refused.
After he reappeared, Bates founded what would become the most notorious school of eye quackery.
In 1836 some boys found a series of little wooden coffins with dolls inside. Was it witchcraft, or a tribute to one of Edinburgh's most gruesome crimes?
Residents of the Canadian border city of Windsor say they're besieged by a persistent noise, but no one can figure out where it's coming from.
Iceland's last execution involved a woman whose crime may never be understood.
The spooky TV ads for Time-Life's encyclopedia of the bizarre inspired the nightmares of countless '80s kids.
The writer was found in great distress and wearing someone else's clothes. A few days later, he was dead.
An early-morning fire erupted in the Sodder household on Christmas Day 1945, and the fate of five children inside has been disputed ever since.
In 1912, 4-year-old Bobby Dunbar went missing in Louisiana. Eight months later, his parents insisted he had been found. But there was something about Bobby that wasn't quite right.
With more than 2 billion copies of her books in print, British novelist Agatha Christie has kept countless readers up into the early morning hours.
Julia Martha Thomas disappeared—but her maid seemed to be doing great.