https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/sydney-sutherland https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.Cya1s-_b_ZoOp1J.jpg The Searcher Who Knew: Sydney Sutherland Sydney Sutherland, a 25-year-old nurse at a hospital in Newport, Arkansas, left home for a run on a rural road on the afternoon of August 19, 2020, and did not come back. Police, federal agencies and volunteers searched the farmland around Newport. Her phone was found near the road the next day, and her body was found buried on farmland north of her home on August 21. That day Quake Lewellyn, 28, a local farmer who had joined the search effort, went to Arkansas State Police with his father and confessed. In October 2021 he pleaded guilty to capital murder and rape and was sentenced to life in prison without parole. https://www.youtube.com/embed/Q7ifj-OFwbo 146 2026-09-11T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/canning-town-freezer-murders https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.Bqv4HJ0F_Z1XWKYn.jpg The Locked Freezer Murders On April 27, 2019, police went to Zahid Younis's flat in Vandome Close, Canning Town, east London, on a welfare check. He was not there. An officer noticed flies around a padlocked chest freezer and forced it open, finding a woman's body. An X-ray of the freezer later revealed a second body beneath the first. The women were Henriett Szucs, a Hungarian woman last seen in 2016, and Mihrican "Jan" Mustafa, a mother of three last heard from in May 2018. Younis, a convicted sex offender, was found guilty of both murders in September 2020 and sentenced to life with a minimum of 38 years. A later BBC investigation found missed chances to stop him. https://www.youtube.com/embed/r84Ur5CVpwo 168 2026-09-10T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/john-gaither-gulfport https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.Cs9fH37p_Z18Ylur.jpg Behind the Wall in Gulfport John Allen Gaither, 42, lived with his mother, Jerri Lynn Roby, in Gulfport, Mississippi. In late December 2023 his brother told police no one had heard from him in about a week. Roby said he had taken an Uber to Louisiana, but his account showed no such trip, and relatives began receiving letters, calls and texts that claimed to be from him. On January 18, 2024, detectives searching the house found a false wall built across the front of the home, with a wooden box behind it holding Gaither's body. He had been shot in the back of the head. Roby, who had a prior murder conviction, pleaded guilty to first-degree murder and was sentenced in July 2026 to life in prison. https://www.youtube.com/embed/723MdOIN6gc 231 2026-09-09T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/smiths-falls-kelly-jordan-road https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.CyQFXWlV_ZtAGhA.jpg The Kelly Jordan Road Bodies On a roughly 40-acre residential property on Kelly Jordan Road near Smiths Falls, Ontario, provincial police have found the remains of three men who had been reported missing. Robbie Thomson, 34, missing since October 2023, was found in late October 2025, as three people were charged with first-degree murder in his death. Robert Lambert, 75, who bought the land in 2004 and was last seen in July 2018, was found on July 20, 2026. Lawrence Bertrim, 42, missing from downtown Smiths Falls since September 2022, was found on August 6, 2026. No one has been charged in Lambert's or Bertrim's deaths, and police say they cannot yet confirm any connection between the cases. https://www.youtube.com/embed/rLqm95XC9eA 199 2026-09-08T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/colie-lee-daniel https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.gGatV5G3_10vk5h.jpg The Compound Suitcase Murder On March 28, 2026, a passerby in the undeveloped area of Palm Bay, Florida, known as the Compound saw vultures circling and found human remains in a suitcase. Police found more remains nearby, along with Amazon packaging addressed to Lucas S. Jones, 19, of Indialantic. The remains were those of Colie Lee Daniel, 28, whose parents had reported him missing a week earlier. Prosecutors say Jones found Daniel on the local sex offender registry, met him through dating apps, lured him to his house and killed him. A Brevard County grand jury indicted Jones on May 19, 2026, for first-degree premeditated murder and related charges. He has not been tried. https://www.youtube.com/embed/VdXMvDptSIM 122 2026-09-07T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/diana-roman-nazimova https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.BvYQOnoP_vUSz8.jpg The Fake Police Stop in Pattaya Diana Nazimova, 22, and her brother Roman, 17, Russians who lived with their mother near Pattaya in Thailand's Chonburi province, left home on a motorcycle around 4 a.m. and were reported missing on July 26, 2026. Their motorcycle was found dismantled and buried. On July 31, police arrested Thana Kerdthong, 43, a recently released prisoner, and Thongchai Srinil, 39, who confessed, according to police and Thai media, to stopping the siblings while posing as police, shooting Roman and beating Diana to death. Searchers also found the bodies of a Thai family of three who had been reported missing in June. Thailand's prime minister apologized. https://www.youtube.com/embed/qPSWSer5Nu8 112 2026-09-06T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/milford-home-invasion https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.azZ-g5Qd_srGh3.jpg The Milford Home Invasion Just before 3 a.m. on June 3, 2026, two men entered a home on East Broadway in Milford, Connecticut, through a rear sliding door and shot the couple asleep inside. Frederick Werner, 69, died at the scene. Sandra Cooper, 69, was shot once in the head, called 911 and survived. Police called it a targeted attack. License plate readers and camera footage led investigators to two suspects, Stuar Lopez-Reyes, 25, and Ivan Barias-Florimon, 24, who were arrested in late July and early August 2026 and charged with murder and other felonies. They have not been tried. https://www.youtube.com/embed/j2nzpHgIBVE 129 2026-09-05T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/patrick-dearth https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.D7y9rfSV_Zx5xsT.jpg The Caller at Mile 47 Patrick Orville Dearth was 34 when his family reported him missing to Fairbanks police in November 1993. The case went cold for more than three decades. On January 22, 2025, Alaska State Troopers received an anonymous tip from someone who claimed to have committed a murder in the Fairbanks area in 1993. In May 2025 troopers found human remains inside a barrel down a steep embankment near Mile 47 of the Steese Highway, and the State Medical Examiner identified them as Dearth. Troopers say the tipster was Christopher Popps, 54, a former coworker. A Fairbanks grand jury indicted Popps on two counts of second-degree murder in June 2026, and he was arrested in Michigan in July 2026. He has not been convicted. https://www.youtube.com/embed/33hiGuRvSEo 151 2026-09-04T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/kim-wall https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.Cp8v8uOF_ZQfLWF.jpg The Submarine Murder: Kim Wall Kim Wall, a 30-year-old Swedish freelance journalist, boarded inventor Peter Madsen's homemade submarine, the UC3 Nautilus, in Copenhagen on the evening of August 10, 2017, to interview him. The submarine did not return. It sank in Køge Bay the next morning, and Madsen, who was rescued, first said he had dropped Wall ashore. Parts of her body were found between August and November. Madsen's accounts changed several times. In April 2018 Copenhagen City Court convicted him of murder, sexual assault and indecent handling of a corpse and sentenced him to life in prison. https://www.youtube.com/embed/ISg3L7gPOIc 166 2026-09-03T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/angela-craig https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.DKJ0Dw1c_ZW5iK3.jpg The Poisoned Protein Shake: Angela Craig Angela Craig, 43, a mother of six in suburban Denver, died in March 2023 during her third hospital stay that month, after symptoms her doctors could not explain. Toxicology showed poisoning from cyanide and tetrahydrozoline. Her husband of 23 years, dentist James Craig, was charged with murder. Prosecutors said he poisoned her protein shakes over about 10 days and then gave her a fatal dose of cyanide through her IV in the hospital. In July 2025 a jury convicted him of first-degree murder and of trying to fake evidence and have the lead detective killed. He was sentenced to life without parole. https://www.youtube.com/embed/pwUX2fIoDno 149 2026-09-02T20:00:00-04:00 no https://thishappenedstories.com/cases/sarah-boone https://thishappenedstories.com/_astro/cover.aikNIs-8_1blLE.jpg The Suitcase: Sarah Boone On the night of February 23, 2020, Sarah Boone zipped her boyfriend, Jorge Torres Jr., 42, into a suitcase in their Winter Park, Florida, apartment and went to bed. He was dead the next morning. Boone told police they had been drinking and playing hide-and-seek, but her phone held two videos from that night showing Torres pleading to be let out while she laughed. A jury convicted her of second-degree murder in October 2024, and she was sentenced to life in prison. Her appeal was still pending in 2026. https://www.youtube.com/embed/rVXI7zk4r2o 121 2026-09-01T20:00:00-04:00 no