Skeleton Stories

When a skull washes up at a small-town lake, the investigation reveals foul play. Another skull is found smashed into 23 pieces as well as hundreds of small bones.

A decomposing corpse reveals crucial clues to a medical examiner. Birdwatchers stumble across a charred, dismembered torso.

A three-year-old boy found wandering in a parking lot has witnessed a murder.

Police unearth the mummified body of a two-year-old 25 years after her suspicious death. A mentally challenged woman is murdered.

A basement renovation in an old farmhouse results in the grisly discovery of a boot with a human leg bone sticking out of it.

Two boys find a nine-year-old girl's body in a creek two years after she had disappeared. An anonymous caller's tip leads a detective to a human skull, an arm bone and two ribs in a rural field.

Three women who were romantically involved with the same man vanish and their bones are found at different times and locations, leading investigators to believe they face a serial killer.

A woman discovers a decomposing body stuffed into a garbage can in her neighbor's shed. A woman walking her dog in the woods stumbles onto a putrefying corpse.

A farmer makes a startling discovery while fixing a fence when he stumbles onto a human skull and torso. A dismembered torso is found on a riverbank by two bicyclists.

A raid on a botanica in New Jersey reveals a basement with an altar of cauldrons filled with blood and human remains, so a forensic anthropologist is consulted.

Renovations in a South Philadelphia row house reveal a wooden box filled with tiny human bones. Park rangers' rounds are disrupted when a human skull is found in the brush.

The remains of an early French colonist from 400 years ago in what is now Maine show evidence of an autopsy. A wallet belonging to a missing man is found.