The Murder Diaries

In 2008, 21-year-old Skye Budnick told her family she was staying with a friend for a couple of nights. Quiet, thoughtful, and deeply fascinated by Japanese culture, Skye had always seemed like the child her parents never had to worry about. But when days passed with no word from her, her family discovered a shocking truth: Skye hadn’t gone to a sleepover at all—she had b...

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Sid Vicious became the face of punk rock rebellion, but behind the chaos was a shy kid whose rise to fame quickly spiraled into addiction, violence, and tragedy. We look back at his unlikely path into the Sex Pistols, his volatile relationship with Nancy Spungen, the mystery surrounding her murder, and Sid’s fatal overdose at just 21 years old.

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In July of 2018, 25-year-old Danniella Vian met up with friends in Mobile, Alabama, excited to celebrate buying her first car. Later that night, Danniella realized that she’d lost her cell phone. One of the friends she’d met that night returned to the previous bar to look for Danniella’s phone, believing she was following him in her own car, but she never arrived. Ten mon...

A mysterious hiker known only as “Mostly Harmless” was found dead in a tent along the Florida Trail with no identification, but plenty of clues. We discuss Netflix’s They Called Him Mostly Harmless, the online community determined to uncover his identity, and the complicated truth that emerged once they finally learned who he was.

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