Maureen Boyle

On an unseasonably warm winter evening in Pennsylvania, 15-year-old Patty Desmond sneaked out through the basement of her house. She had a history of running away, and that, combined with an argument with her mother, gave police reason to suspect she’d come home in a week or two....

Eleven women went missing over the spring and summer of 1988 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, an old fishing port known as the Whaling City, where Moby Dick, Frederick Douglass, textile mills, and heroin-dealing represent just a few of the many threads in the community's diverse fabric. In Shallow...

How could such a dark secret have been kept for so many years? Police Chief Greg Adams was out on patrol. Christmas was coming to Saxonburg, Pennsylvania - a quaint borough of just 1,300 - in three short weeks. The winter air was crisp. Colored lights sparkled on houses....