Unseen

"When you cross the line, you pay for it"

Brook Weber is just 18 years old in August of 1996 when she and her boyfriend Jeffrey Wolfe find themselves in the most disturbing home in all of Mississippi. Gary Carl Simmons, a local butcher in Moss Pointe, has been waiting for someone like Brook to fall into his clutches after his ex-wife Lori Simmons fled with their children in fear of her life. In fact, Gary has a perfect hum...

“His entire world revolved around her” --When cops break into the Groene home on May 16th 2005 after receiving a call from a concerned neighbor, no one is prepared to find the family murdered, and as they identify everyone, they notice that the younger children, Dylan, 9, and Shasta, 8, are missing. As the authorities race against time to find the missing kids, Shasta is trapped in the woods with her family’s killer, nearly 100 mil...

“Only a monster can do this kind of evil thing” --On the morning of July 12, 2009, in the Rye Brook Hilton Hotel, May Abad receives a frantic call from hotel security, urging her to rush to her parents’ suite. As she races down the hallway, her mother, Narcy Novack’s, screams cut through the silence—her father, Ben Novack Jr., millionaire and heir to Miami’s famous Fontainebleau hotel, has been brutally murdered. Now, May is on a d...

“There’s a monster out there”

It’s 1981 in the sleepy town of River Oaks, Texas, and someone is hunting cheerleaders. A 16-year-old teenager, Susan Brown, is brutally attacked in her own home. What she, the cops, and the rest of the town don’t know is that she’s just the first victim in a rampage that will change this Texas suburb forever.One by one, members of the Castleberry High School cheer squad are targeted, but things escala...

“There’s no way that we just found this murder plan"

25-year-old Patrick De La Cerda is ready to start a new chapter with his fiancée, Jessica Devnani, until right after Valentine’s Day, in 2018, when cops make a grim discovery at the couple’s barn in Deltona, Florida: Patrick has been murdered in what seems to be a targeted assassination, but as the case goes on, unusual clues pop up. Ominous voicemails, private investigators,...

“Shh, don’t scream.”--On the night of July 23rd 2013, Tiffany calmly calls the police asking for help after she injured her own neck in an attempt to take her life, while her ex-husband Kris simply watches her. When the detectives arrive on the scene, it’s clear to them that she didn’t do this herself. Her ex Kris says the opposite, and calls her a liar. As they dig more into the case, time is running out as Kris carries out his ow...

"What happened in that box?" January 11th 1973, on his way to buy milk for his siblings, 13 year old Paul Martin Andrews doesn’t notice a blue van is following him. Sitting in it is Richard Ausley, a dangerous outlaw on the run, and as Richard usually does, he simply asks Paul for help and offers him a ride. His story would end up becoming infamously known as “The Boy in the Box”, and 30 years later, Paul speaks up about ...

“Are the hurt people dead?” In 1979, 4 year old Jennifer Carson comes face to face with one of the most bizarre and deranged serial killers to have ever lived: none other than her new psychic step-mother, Susan Carson. Susan, along with Jenn’s father Michael Bear Carson, will embark on a years-long religious mission to hunt down and kill anyone they deem a witch, and Jenn is their first target. Little do the infamous San Francisco ...

“I don’t want to tell her daddy’s gone”

In the early hours of March 10th, 2017, police officers enter the home of Valerie McDaniel and Leon Jacob with seemingly unexpected news – cops tell the new couple that Valerie’s ex-husband has just been killed in a robbery gone wrong, but there’s something else they’re hiding. What Leon and Valerie don’t know is that they’ve walked right into a trap—one designed to catch them in their own dea...

“She knew who did it all along”On July 31st 1970, in the small town of Price Utah, 4 year old Heidi wakes up to eerie silence, and after peeking through the keyhole of her bedroom door, she sees a terrifying scene that will stick with her forever: the tragic murder of her mother. However, no one is convicted, and before the case file is officially marked as unsolved, Heidi’s grandmother takes one last photo of her, standing in fron...

“You’re gonna pay for this”

On May 1st, 2001, 11 YO Leah Henry is dropped off by her school bus less than a mile from the safety of her house, but as she starts her walk home, a car suddenly drives up to her and parks, blocking the road. Unbeknownst to her, Leah is about to be kidnapped by one of Texas’ most notorious serial predators, but she will also be known as the girl who outsmarted him using her wits, and even her camera, a...

“If he doesn’t get it his way, he may literally lose his mind” On February 23rd, 2023, mom of 3 Becky Bliefnick was found dead, shot 14 times in cold blood, and despite the brutal nature of the attack, there isn’t any DNA evidence left behind. The killer thinks he’s outsmarted everyone, but little do they know that Becky refused to be a silent victim, and has left all the clues investigators need to uncover the truth and bring jus...

“He shot my daughter in the face!”

On Christmas Eve 2008, just before midnight, 911 operators scramble as every phone rings off the hook in the city of Covina, California. All the callers frantically report a massive explosion on East Knollcrest drive—the Ortegas' family home. In the chaos, neighbors are sheltering the panicked surviving family members, running for their lives from what should have been a normal Christmas dinne...

“I think he’s right behind me — watching me” June 13th 1985: Dr. Ann Wolbert Burgess, a trailblazer mindhunter, sits across from an 8YO girl, trying to analyze her. 10 days prior, little Opal Horton barely escaped a kidnapping by a man who took her best friend Missy right in front of her. Now, Dr. Burgess’s job is to catch this man, to find Missy before it’s too late, but there’s one problem: Opal is not talking. Dr. Burgess will ...

“I just know something is wrong with her”

On June 10th, 2016 Josephine Wentzel receives the worst call of her life: her 30-year-old daughter is dead, and her boyfriend Raymond McLeod is MIA. This date marks the beginning of a 6-year-long international manhunt, but after months of fruitless efforts by police, a desperate Josephine takes matters into her own hands. She will use all her experience as a former police officer to catch h...

“It was like making a deal with the devil” 

At 3:30 am on February 21st 2008, Melissa Oxley frantically calls 911 from her bedroom. She’s just woken up next to the dead body of her husband, Ben, who’s been murdered with a shotgun in his sleep. She hides with her 6-year-old stepdaughter, Alyssa, pleading with dispatchers to hurry, since she can hear footsteps downstairs, but when police arrive, there’s no intruder found. As all clues...

“I’m gonna die tonight, or I’m gonna escape somehow” July 20, 2014. Zenya Hernandez is on the phone, desperately trying to organize the search for her 15-year-old daughter, who has been missing for 9 months. She doesn’t know it yet, but her wait is about to end: miraculously, Abby Hernandez reappears at her front door that night. But to Zenya’s concern and the community’s disbelief, Abby won’t speak about the horrors she went throu...

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“I think daddy killed mommy in the bathtub” --

It’s April 11th 2007, and young medical student Alexis Somers tries to call her mom, but repeatedly gets no answer, until her dad finally picks up: “mom is dead”. After rushing home from college following his disturbing announcement, Alexis realize...