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The Girl Who Vanished at Midnight
On a cold November night in 2012, 17-year-old Emily Carter walked out of her bedroom window and was never seen again. Her disappearance shook the quiet town of Willow Creek to its core. With only 3,000 residents and a crime rate so low the local paper rarely mentioned arrests, nothing prepared the town—or Emily’s family—for the nightmare that would follow.
By Solene Hart6 months ago in Criminal
Gilbert Arenas: From NBA Stardom to Federal Charges. AI-Generated.
Gilbert Arenas, once one of the most exciting guards in the NBA, is making headlines in 2025 — but not for a game-winning shot or a standout playoff performance. Instead, the former Washington Wizards All-Star faces federal charges connected to a high-stakes illegal poker operation allegedly run from his California mansion.
By Zulfiqar Khan6 months ago in Criminal
A Trace of Smoke
Detective Elara Vance stood at the edge of the charred ruins, her black boots crunching over shattered glass and soot. The warehouse, once abandoned, was now reduced to a smoldering skeleton of beams and ash. Firefighters were packing up, but she remained still, scanning the wreckage.
By Solene Hart6 months ago in Criminal
The Paris Illusion – Season 3, Part 2. AI-Generated.
I didn’t sleep that night. I sat in the corner of my apartment, phone in one hand, knife in the other, the message glowing like a threat in my palm—Marienne, tied up. Choose. It was the kind of choice I thought I’d never face again. Not after Love. Not after Henry. I had tried to bury Joe Goldberg, but someone had unearthed him and was dangling his crimes over the only pure thing I ever loved.
By Rashid Ahmad6 months ago in Criminal
The Paris Illusion – Season 3, Part 1. AI-Generated.
Paris was never supposed to be home. It was a hiding place, a graveyard for the man I used to be. Joe Goldberg died in a fire, and from his ashes, Jonathan Moore was born—a quiet, grieving father, alone in a city of love. I didn’t come here for art or beauty. I came for her. Marienne.
By Rashid Ahmad6 months ago in Criminal
Our Love Story Ends in Blood – Season 2, Part 2. AI-Generated.
Her words lingered in the air like smoke—“I’m pregnant.” I should have felt joy, hope, a new beginning. But all I felt was fear. Not the kind that sends you running, but the kind that roots deep inside your chest and grows like rot. Love was having my child. Love, the woman who slit Candace’s throat. Love, who saw the worst in me and didn’t flinch—because she had her own.
By Rashid Ahmad6 months ago in Criminal
The Bakery and the Burial – Season 2, Part 1. AI-Generated.
I buried Beck beneath poetry and hardwood, but her voice still echoed in the spaces between my ribs. New York became a cage of whispers—her laugh on the stairs, the sound of the bookstore bell, the scent of her shampoo on strangers passing me in the street. So I ran. West. To Los Angeles. The land of smoothies, sunsets, and souls that smiled too wide. I chose a name—Will Bettelheim. Not mine, but fitting. The real Will? He’s alive, just very…quiet now. Locked away. Safe.
By Rashid Ahmad6 months ago in Criminal
The Woman in the Cage – Season 1, Part 2. AI-Generated.
Love is patient. Love is kind. Love is a lie. It started slipping the moment Beck started noticing things she wasn’t meant to. She still smiled at me like I was her safe place, but her eyes grew restless. Maybe it was the way Peach’s death haunted her, or the way Dr. Nicky’s voice started sounding more comforting than mine. Maybe it was the book she couldn’t finish, or the truths she didn’t want to admit—that the world she lived in, the people she trusted, were disappearing. I tried to hold her tighter. But Beck was beginning to pull away, and when people pull away from me, I pull harder.
By Rashid Ahmad6 months ago in Criminal
Hello, You – Season 1, Part 1. AI-Generated.
The bell above the bookstore door chimed—a soft, ordinary sound that meant nothing to anyone but him. But when she walked in, that chime might as well have been a thunderclap. She moved like a question he didn’t know he’d been waiting to answer. Her hair loose, sweater oversized, and fingers running along the spines of poetry like she already belonged to them. Her name was Guinevere Beck, but she introduced herself as just Beck. And with that, everything changed.
By Rashid Ahmad6 months ago in Criminal
Canada's Most Disturbing High Profile Murder Investigation. AI-Generated.
In the heart of Mississauga, Ontario, an unassuming former aerospace engineer has become the epicenter of one of the most disturbing and high-profile murder investigations in recent Canadian history. Kenneth Law, a 58-year-old man, stands accused of orchestrating a horrifyingly methodical operation allegedly aiding or causing the deaths of vulnerable individuals by distributing lethal substances under the guise of a "suicide kit."
By Nowshad Ahmad6 months ago in Criminal
