That is what prosecutors said happened here. The woman who entered the house as a teenager allegedly spent more than two decades in domestic servitude. She cleaned. She cooked....
At trial, the prosecution said Huntley was unlikely to dispute that the girls died in his home within a short time of entering it. The Crown’s case was not...
There are some disappearances that feel terrible because they are sudden. And then there are disappearances that feel almost impossible—cases so strange, so cruelly unresolved, that they stop feeling like...
“So,” she said softly, “they did it.” I nodded once. Then we walked back into the dining room together. My father straightened in his chair. “Who is this?” “My...
Most people, I guess, reacted differently when they learned they were dating into money. But money had never impressed me much. That came from how I grew up. My...
My grandfather had been an accountant for forty-seven years. Numbers were his language. His poetry. His way of understanding the world. When I was young and struggling with math...
I did not move. I did not breathe. I sat there in my chair at my parents’ Christmas table, surrounded by aunts and uncles and cousins and the...
I had everything. Then Victor Ashworth happened. Victor was my partner at the clinic. We had started the practice together right out of veterinary school, two young men with...
Diana Brennan was beautiful in the way expensive things are beautiful. High cheekbones. Auburn hair that she spent an hour styling every morning. Makeup even for grocery store trips....
The funeral was on a Tuesday. Gray sky, light rain, the kind of October day that feels as though the world itself is in mourning. I stood at the edge...