FBI Files

No Body. No Weapon. No Crime Scene. One Computer File.

A Marine captain vanishes from Quantico in 1989. No body. No weapon. No crime scene. Then investigators find a computer file titled “murder” on her estranged husband’s desk — twenty-six numbered steps, including “How do I kill her???” This is the case...

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He Killed Three Coffee Shop Workers and Walked Out Without the Money

It was the Sunday night at the end of the July 4th weekend in 1997. After closing time, a gunman walked into a Starbucks coffee shop near Georgetown in Washington, D.C., forced three employees into a back office, and killed all of them over the keys...

Women Called Him Charming. Four Were Found Dead in Six Weeks

On September 29th, 1995, firefighters in Van Nuys, California, found a burning pickup truck with the body of a mother of three inside. Six weeks later, after a trail of deaths across four states, a Kentucky police officer spotted a stolen car and...

He Called Himself the Teen's Guardian. Then He Took Him Hunting.

On opening day of deer season in 1983, 18-year-old David Wilkey was shot to death in the woods of Bedford County, Virginia. Local authorities called it a hunting accident. The man who took him hunting, David Lee Fisher, filed a $100,000 accidental...

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The Acupuncturist the FBI Hunted for 4 Years After the Brink's Murders

On October 20th, 1981, armed men ambushed a Brink's armored truck outside a New York mall, stealing $1.6 million and killing a guard. Within the hour, two police officers who stopped the getaway truck were gunned down at a highway ramp. The robbery...

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He Dared a Judge to Lock Him Up. Then He Vanished for 54 Days.

He dared a judge to give him the harshest sentence possible, promising he'd escape within months. On May 12th, 1992, Danny Ray Horning walked out of an Arizona maximum security prison in a stolen lab coat and began the largest manhunt in the state's...

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He Won a Police Medal in 1993. In 1994, He Had a Witness Killed.

In 1993, New Orleans police officer Len Davis was awarded the department's Medal of Merit. A year later, he was running a protection racket for drug dealers, and when a 32-year-old mother of three filed a complaint about him, she was dead in less than...

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The Judge Was Murdered Over Money He Never Stole

A circuit judge and his wife, shot dead in their own home on the Mississippi Gulf Coast. The reason: money the judge never stole. In 1987, Judge Vincent Sherry and his wife Margaret, a Biloxi city councilwoman, were murdered in a plot traced back to a...

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8 Million Flyers. 4,000 Volunteers. One Girl Who Vanished Without a Trace

On the night of October 1, 1993, a 12-year-old girl was kidnapped at knifepoint from her bedroom during a sleepover while her mother slept in the next room. It was a stranger abduction from the home—the rarest and most terrifying kind of kidnapping....

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Out of Jail on August 15. Four People Dead by Labor Day.

In a quiet Ohio community, an elderly woman vanishes without a trace. Hours later, a teenage boy disappears. The police know the cases are linked—but they don't know how. What begins as a local mystery spirals into a cross-country crime spree that...

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The Robbery That Rewrote How America Decides the Death Penalty

A former security professional. A sniper rifle. A single shot outside an Arizona mall that killed an armored van driver and set off a manhunt ending in a drainage culvert off a desert highway. The capture of Timothy Ring closed the case. But what...

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The Gas Station Mogul Who Rigged Pumps and Ordered Murders

He started out washing cars for a living. Within a decade, Gurmeet Singh Dhinsa controlled more than fifty gas stations across New York City — a business empire built on rigged pumps, counterfeit inspection seals, and a willingness to order murder to...

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He Wrote a 26-Step "Recipe for Murder" — Then His Wife Vanished

She was a Marine Corps captain, days from finalizing her divorce and already approved for promotion. He was a disgraced former officer with nothing left to lose. When Captain Shirley Russell vanished from Quantico in March 1989, investigators faced a...

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The Ex-Cop Who Planned a Murder Like a Sniper Operation

He had once worked in security himself, trained to understand exactly how armored car routes operated, and exactly when a driver would be most vulnerable. On November 28th, 1994, he used that knowledge to plan an execution outside a Phoenix-area mall....

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The Baker Everyone Trusted Was Hunting Women With an Airplane

Cindy Paulson’s Escape Exposes Robert Hansen in Anchorage  She was seventeen years old, handcuffed, barefoot, and running for her life. She had been kidnapped, tortured, and raped inside a quiet Anchorage home by a man she believed was just another...

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He Was One of Delaware's Most Powerful Lawyers. A Cooler That Wouldn't Sink Ended Everything

He was one of Delaware's most powerful lawyers, with ties to the governor's own office. When his secret relationship with the governor's young secretary turned deadly, he was confident he could make the evidence disappear — permanently, sixty miles...

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He Hunted Strangers With a Sniper Rifle to Start a Race War

Liberty Park Sniper: The Hunt for Joseph Paul Franklin | The FBI Files It was a warm summer evening in Salt Lake City. Ted Fields, 20, and David Martin, 18, were jogging through Liberty Park with two white girlfriends. They were young. They were...

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Jack Unterweger Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the FBI

Jack Unterweger: Austria's Serial Killer Caught by the FBI | The FBI Files He was celebrated as a literary genius, a reformed man who had turned his life around behind bars. He walked red carpets, gave interviews, and rubbed shoulders with Vienna's...

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CIA Headquarters Shooting Inside the International Manhunt for Mir Amal Kanzi

It was a crisp winter morning in Langley, Virginia. Cars were lined up at a stoplight, waiting to turn into the main entrance of CIA headquarters. Inside those vehicles were ordinary people—analysts, engineers, covert operatives—going about their...

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Glenn Rogers From Van Nuys Truck Fire to Room 119

A burned pickup truck in a Van Nuys hospital parking lot. A woman’s body inside, strangled before the flames ever touched her. A single earring. A lottery win. And a name that kept surfacing: Glenn Rogers. It began on the night of September 29, 1995,...

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