It was one of those blistering afternoons when the heat feels almost alive, shimmering off the asphalt in waves, the kind of day when stepping outside feels like opening an oven door. I…

When most people think of their phone’s volume controls, they immediately picture one simple function: adjusting sound up or down. Yet by 2025, those small buttons on the side of your device have…

In the summer of 2023, the jagged peaks of the Grand Tetons became the backdrop for a tragedy that would haunt an entire community. Amy Turner, a 24-year-old artist and outdoor enthusiast living…

In 2012, 23-year-old Asha Baduri set out on a solo trek through Utah’s Uinta-Wasatch-Cache National Forest, chasing the solitude she had always dreamed of. Her father, Kalin, had watched her prepare for months…

In May 2015, when Khaled Baptiste and his 15-year-old niece Lisa set out for what was supposed to be a simple weekend hike in Grand Teton National Park, no one in their hometown…

For six long years, Marlene Jackson lived in the shadow of absence, waiting for her son Devon to come home. He had disappeared on what should have been an ordinary Sunday afternoon in…

In 2016, Los Angeles society celebrated Michael and David Clark as the picture of modern compassion: Michael, a sought-after therapist known for “healing families,” and David, an award-winning architect whose minimalist homes filled…

On June 17, 1982, the Stokes family of Jackson, Mississippi—Reverend Elijah, his wife Clarice, and their three children—left home before sunrise for a long-anticipated summer road trip. Their beige 1978 Chevrolet Suburban was…

On September 14, 2025, a small community in Dubberly, Louisiana, was thrown into panic when 10-year-old Peyton Saintignan disappeared from her family home, wandering off into the woods dressed in her Frozen-themed pajamas….