Hervey Medellin, a 66-year-old retired Mexicana Airlines clerk and art collector, was reported missing from his Los Angeles home. His body was found the next day.

Paul Solomon came home from a date with his 25-year-old mistress to find that his wife Betty Jeanne Solomon had been murdered.

Tax official Giuseppe Aliberti was arrested for leading an intricate scheme that rigged Milan's lottery and cheated people out of billions of lira.

A seven-man team pulled off an impressive heist at the Banco Río in San Isidro, Argentina, stealing an estimated $20 million worth of loot.

Hermann Göring, Adolf Hitler’s second-in-command during the Nazis’ brutal regime, was born on this day.

American journalist Lori Berenson was sentenced to life in prison for her involvement with the Peruvian terrorist organization MRTA.

Dutch communist Marinus van der Lubbe was executed by the Nazi government for setting fire to the building that housed the German parliament, the Reichstag.

Dorothea Puente, one of California's most prolific serial killers, was born on this date. Seven dead bodies were unearthed in her backyard, though she was only convicted of three murders.

26-year-old thief Allen Kuhn led a Manhattan prosecutor and three New York detectives on a treasure hunt through Miami. They sought Kuhn’s recent haul of priceless jewels — namely, the Star of India, one of the world’s largest gems.

The body of 16-year-old Shelley Connolly was found off a highway in Anchorage, Alaska. Her case remained cold for over 40 years until new DNA technology told investigators who the killer was.

Alessandro de’ Medici, the first duke of Florence, was assassinated in a clever plot executed by one of his closest confidants.

When authorities located the body of labor organizer Jock Yablonski, along with the body of his wife and daughter, they determined it was likely the work of hired killers. And they knew exactly where to start looking.

21-year-old Jana Shearer was murdered, mutilated and cooked by her boyfriend Christopher McCuin.

After years of spouting fascist propaganda and antisemitic tirades on his radio program “Germany Calling,” Nazi radio host William Joyce was executed for treason.

After a murder spree that had resulted in the deaths of three people, authorities in Union City, Tennessee finally caught up to killer Steven Ray Thacker.

20-year-old Betty Smithey strangled one of the four children she was trusted to look after. She was caught a day later attempting to flee to Mexico.

As we look ahead to the new year, we want to take one last chance to say thank you for the year that was — and present our “Best of 2021”! Please enjoy this episode from Disappearances with Sarah Turney, one of our favorite new shows of the year.

A plan months in the making, serial killer Ted Bundy cut a hole in the ceiling of his cell and escaped from a maximum-security prison in Glenwood Springs, Colorado.

The body of 18-year-old Sarah DeLeon was found on a stretch of isolated train tracks by a railway worker. Decades later, her case remains unsolved.

An online fued between two Call of Duty players turned deadly when a swatting incident went horribly wrong, killing an innocent victim.

Chechen rebels drove two trucks full of explosives past checkpoints at a government building in the capital city of Grozny and detonated them, killing 72 people.

On an island off the coast of Scotland, the strange disappearances of three lighthouse keepers called for an investigation. A log kept by one of the keepers only deepened the mystery.

On Christmas Day 1868, U.S. President Andrew Johnson extended a pardon for Confederate veterans, leaders and supporters who participated in the Civil War.

Not long after 27-year-old Laci Peterson vanished from her neighborhood in Modesto, California, suspicion fell on her husband, Scott Peterson.

Following the victory of the Allied powers in World War II, the American military executed seven convicted Japanese war criminals in Tokyo.