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Collections

Reading paths through the archive, each built around a single question. Every case keeps its own sources and legal-status labels.

12 reading paths

Collection folio

24 case files
The cases that changed the law
Cases whose aftermath rewrote a statute, a police procedure, or a citizen's rights.
6 case files
Cleared by DNA
Convictions that DNA evidence later undid, and the years each person lost before the science caught up.
6 case files
Named at last
Unidentified victims and the long work of giving them back their names.
6 case files
The family-tree cases
Investigations reopened when crime-scene DNA was matched, through distant relatives, to a name.
6 case files
Answered decades later
Killings that stayed open for a generation before a new test, a new witness, or a fresh pair of eyes closed them.
7 case files
When the ruling changed
Deaths first recorded as accidents or suicides, and the reviews that later called them something else.
7 case files
The digital trail
Trials that turned on phone masts, CCTV, and search histories — the electronic traces almost everyone now leaves.
4 case files
What the record actually shows
Cases the public thinks it knows, set against what investigators and courts actually found.
16 case files
The assassinations that redirected history
The killings of presidents, prime ministers, dissidents, and reformers — each one a hinge a nation's history turned on.
15 case files
Bombings and their aftermath
Bombings across public places, transit systems, campaigns, and conflicts — recorded through the people they were aimed at and the aftermath that followed.
19 case files
Mass shootings: the places we remember
Public attacks remembered by place — and the lives, movements, safety changes, and public arguments that followed.
9 case files
The disappearances that gripped the world
People who vanished without explanation — and the searches, theories, and vigils a global audience followed for years.

The cases that changed the law

Cleared by DNA

Named at last

The family-tree cases

Answered decades later

When the ruling changed

The digital trail

What the record actually shows

The assassinations that redirected history

Bombings and their aftermath

Mass shootings: the places we remember

The disappearances that gripped the world