Eileen Macfarlane on Crime+Investigation

Colleen Stan leaving a car

Colleen Stan: the girl in the box

Colleen Stan, was held captive for seven years between 1977 and 1981

Donna Norris touches a photo of her daughter, Amber Hagerman

The case that inspired AMBER Alerts

The AMBER Alert – an acronym for America’s Missing: Broadcast Emergency Response, was created, a legacy of 9-year-old Amber Hagerman

A Texas road

Dragged for 3 miles behind a pickup: The racist Murder of James Byrd Jr

One of modern America's worst hate crimes

A search for the 6-year-old was launched with close to 100 police officers and a pack of bloodhounds canvassing the lower Manhattan area

The Disappearance of Etan Patz

A search for the 6-year-old was launched with close to 100 police officers and a pack of bloodhounds canvassing the lower Manhattan area

The double-murderer who hid from police in a divan bed at the crime scene

The monster under the bed

The double-murderer who hid from police in a divan bed at the crime scene

A traditional Californian house with picket fence

Going home: The story of Steven Stayner

When Steven naively climbed into a man’s car he never could have imagined he wouldn't return home for 7 years