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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.

Nicholas Barclay disappeared in San Antonio, Texas, in 1994 at age 13. Three years later, French impostor Frédéric Bourdin posed as the missing teen before being exposed and convicted of fraud.

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.

Brandon Victor Swanson, a 19-year-old from Marshall, Minnesota, vanished in the early hours of May 14, 2008, shortly after his car went into a ditch. Speaking to his parents by phone and claiming he was near the town of Lynd, Brandon exclaimed "Oh, shit!" and went silent approximately 47 minutes into the call—and was never seen again.

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.

On May 11, 2011, six-year-old Timmothy James Pitzen was withdrawn from his Illinois school by his mother, Amy Fry-Pitzen, who claimed a family emergency. Three days later, Amy was found dead from suicide with a note stating the boy was safe but would never be found. More than a decade on, Timmothy remains missing.

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.

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.