Ayla’s case is both the largest criminal investigation and the third largest search for a missing child in Maine’s history. If you’ve lived in Maine or New England in the last decade, you probably know the high-level details of the night she went missing from her father’s home, but there is so much to this case.

Whatever compelled Virginia to walk out of that hospital room and onto State Street in Bangor on April 24, 1993, we may never know for sure. But without her final evaluation, without a formal discharge, without a plan to make it home, she did exactly that. That hospital room at Eastern Maine Medical Center would become the last confirmed place that Virginia Sue Pictou-Noyes was seen alive.

There was one thing clear after reading Kevin Cady’s book -- Cathy did not disappear without a trace. Kevin Cady shares what he knows about the longest standing missing persons case in the state of Maine, and what happened to her after she stepped out onto Forest Avenue that September evening in 1971.

On September 24, 1971, Cathy Marie Moulton stepped out onto Forest Avenue in Portland, Maine heading the direction of home. She had plans to attend the YWCA dance that night... But Cathy never made it.

On August 11, 1991, Bill and Pearl stood in their kitchen, each taking verbal jabs at the other in another argument over money. As the shouting got louder, Bill grabbed his keys and slammed the door on his way out of the house. When he got home, Pearl was gone. At least, that’s what he told police.

On December 8, 2001, after months of searching and a focused investigation in the Scarborough woods, investigators came upon a shallow grave just 150 yards from the road. Buried beneath the dirt, still wearing the outfit she picked for her Old Port night out, was Amy St. Laurent.

What should be the simplest answer for the disappearance of Shirley Moon-Atwood, actually isn’t simple at all. In this case, we have a man with a history of convicted assault against a woman, an ex-wife with a violent conviction of her own, and a new girlfriend, found dead, with mountains of circumstantial evidence pointing to a killer. Or does it?

This is the story of a true monster who stole the lives of four innocent humans when he committed one of the most grisly multiple murders in Maine’s history, and it all happened just minutes from a well-known and beloved winter destination in New England.

Smuttynose Island in the Isles of Shoals has become an iconic part of the dark side of Maine and New Hampshire history. This is the historic 1870s case of three women attacked in the dead of night, when a robbery turned bloody and the thief wielded an ax that would end the lives of two.

A spontaneous Maine adventure turns dark when Virginia C. Douglas steps into Reny's in Belfast, Maine and is never seen again. Where did Virginia go?

The parishioners of Gustaf Adolf Lutheran Church in New Sweden, Maine didn't know that on the morning of April 23, 2003, their strong Swedish coffee was tainted.