True Crime

Every news article called her a 37-year-old bipolar Buddhist musician. None of them mentioned Sandia National Laboratories. None mentioned quantum computing. None mentioned the NNSA report with her name in it, published seven months before she vanished. On October 15, 2023, Ingrid Coleen Lane disappeared in the Jemez Mountains of New Mexico. Her abandoned car was found on a remote forest road near the Valles Caldera, with a boulder through the rear window...

114 years ago the Moore family came home from church in Villisca, Iowa and went to bed for the last time. By the time the sun came up on June 10th, 1912, eight people were dead. Joe and Sarah Moore. Their four children: Herman, 11; Katherine, 10; Arthur, 7; and Paul, 5. And two little girls who had been invited for a sleepover. Lena Stillinger, 11, and her younger sister Ina May, 8. All of them killed with an axe in the dark. All of them still in their beds.

The remains of Melissa Casias, LANL employee and subject of our Limitations on Nature series, were discovered in Carson National Forest almost a year after she vanished. Her family says the area had already been searched. No cause of death has been determined.

Most people know the broad outline. Young woman. Washington D.C. intern. Affair with a Congressman. Disappeared in May 2001. Body found a year later in Rock Creek Park. A man convicted. The conviction overturned. The case cold. What most people do not know is what her parents said this week. On the 25th anniversary of her disappearance. On NewsNation. About UAPs. About the House Intelligence Committee. About whether their daughter was killed because of what she had learned.