# The Great Isabel Mystery: Why the FBI’s Missing Woman Has the Internet on the Edge of Its Seat Alright, folks, gather ’round. We’re about to dive into one of the most perplexing, spine-tingling mysteries to hit the internet in recent memory. No, it’s not about the whereabouts of your ex’s sanity after you ghosted…
Global Kidnapping, Global Redemption: How the Elizabeth Smart Saga Became a Universal Morality Tale By the time a 14-year-old Elizabeth Smart was dragged from her Salt Lake City bedroom in 2002, the planet had already endured a decade of breathless, 24-hour tragedy porn. From Mogadishu to Manila, cable executives had discovered that nothing spikes ratings…
Courtney Wild and the Global Epidemic of Disposable People By Marcello Vanzi, International Correspondent, Dave’s Locker PARIS—If you squint through the diesel haze drifting off the Boulevard Périphérique, Courtney Wild’s story looks almost Parisian: a woman reduced to a headline, a case file, a cautionary tale. Yet the same plot points—powerful men, silenced women, and…
