Edited by hand
Collections
Collections are hand-edited reading paths through the archive: each gathers published case files around a single question and opens with an original introduction. The grouping is editorial; every case keeps its own sources and legal-status labels.
12 reading paths
- 24 case files
The cases that changed the law
Cases whose aftermath rewrote a statute, a police procedure, or a citizen's rights.
Read the collection - 6 case files
Cleared by DNA
Convictions that DNA evidence later undid, and the years each person lost before the science caught up.
Read the collection - 6 case files
Named at last
Unidentified victims and the long work of giving them back their names.
Read the collection - 6 case files
The family-tree cases
Investigations reopened when crime-scene DNA was matched, through distant relatives, to a name.
Read the collection - 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.
Read the collection - 7 case files
When the ruling changed
Deaths first recorded as accidents or suicides, and the reviews that later called them something else.
Read the collection - 7 case files
The digital trail
Trials that turned on phone masts, CCTV, and search histories — the electronic traces almost everyone now leaves.
Read the collection - 4 case files
What the record actually shows
Cases the public thinks it knows, set against what investigators and courts actually found.
Read the collection - 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.
Read the collection - 11 case files
The bombings that changed the rules
Attacks that rewrote how a country secures a building, screens a crowd, or polices a threat — recorded through the people they were aimed at.
Read the collection - 16 case files
The mass shootings that changed the debate
Public attacks whose place-names became a national shorthand — and the argument over guns, security, and prevention that followed each one.
Read the collection - 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.
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