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The Hatchet Wielding Hitchhiker is a Netflix documentary about Caleb 'Kai' McGillvary, the viral internet hero who was convicted of murdering New Jersey attorney Joseph Galfy in 2013.

They Called Him Mostly Harmless is a 2024 Max documentary about the death and identification of an unnamed hiker found in Big Cypress National Preserve, Florida, later identified as Vance John Rodriguez.

Døden i paradis is a 2025 TV 2 Play documentary about Anne-Sofie and Freja, two Danish friends who traveled to Asia after high school and never returned home.

The Koh Tao murders are a controversial 2014 Thai double homicide in which British tourists Hannah Witheridge and David Miller were killed on Sairee Beach, resulting in disputed convictions.

The Caleb McGillvary case is a New Jersey murder in which viral internet figure 'Kai the Hatchet-Wielding Hitchhiker' beat 73-year-old attorney Joseph Galfy Jr. to death in May 2013.

On Australia Day 1966, Jane, Arnna, and Grant Beaumont—aged 9, 7, and 4—left their home in Adelaide to swim at Glenelg Beach. They were never seen again. Nearly six decades later, the disappearance remains one of Australia's most haunting cold cases.

German-American pilot Dieter Dengler was shot down on February 1, 1966, during a classified mission over the dense jungle of Laos. His struggle to survive and escape became an extraordinary story of human endurance.

On July 8, 2014, German tourist Lars Mittank fled Varna Airport in Bulgaria, abandoning his belongings and sprinting into nearby woods. The 28-year-old has never been seen since, leaving behind unanswered questions about what drove him to abandon his ticket home.

On February 9, 2004, 21-year-old Maura Murray crashed her car on Route 112 near Woodsville, New Hampshire. When police arrived minutes later, she was gone—and despite two decades of investigation, no trace of her has ever been found.

On September 26, 2014, municipal police in Iguala, Guerrero, Mexico abducted 43 students from the Raúl Isidro Burgos Rural Teachers' College after commandeering buses for a protest. A decade later, the case remains largely unresolved, with mounting evidence of state involvement and systematic cover-up.

Australian pilot Frederick Valentich disappeared on October 21, 1978, while flying his Cessna 182L over Bass Strait. His final radio transmission contained the chilling words: 'It's not an aircraft.'

Italian-American Ylenia Maria Sole Carrisi vanished on January 6, 1994, in New Orleans. The daughter of famous Italian singers was declared dead in 2014, but the mystery of her fate has never been solved.