Real Life Nightmare

5-year-old Haleigh Cummings disappears from her home after her dad's girlfriend puts her to bed.

Newlyweds Jessica and Matthew Boynton seemed like the picture-perfect couple until the young mother is found unresponsive and covered in blood.

A family camping trip to the remote Idaho mountains turns into something out of a horror movie when two-year-old DeOrr Kunz disappears. At first it looks like he may have been abducted, until other disturbing theories start to emerge.

Beautiful mom Michelle Parker appears on an episode of "The People's Court", fighting with her ex-fiance over a luxury, diamond engagement ring. But hours after that episode airs, Michelle mysteriously vanishes.

On February 19, 2013, the body of Chinese-Canadian tourist Elisa Lam was recovered from a large cistern atop the Stay on Main hotel, also known as the Cecil Hotel, in Downtown Los Angeles, where she had been a guest. She was last seen alive on January 31 and was reported missing by her parents on February 1. Her body was discovered by a hotel maintenance worker investigating complaints of flooding and low water pressure. Interest in Lam's disappearance increased on February 13, 2013 when the Los Angeles Police Department released security camera footage of her behaving erratically in a hotel elevator on the day she was last seen alive. The video went viral. While an autopsy performed on February 21, 2013 was inconclusive in determining the manner of Lam's death, the Los Angeles County Coroner's office subsequently ruled the death an accident with bipolar disorder being a significant contributing factor. Guests at the Stay on Main sued the hotel over the incident and Lam's parents filed a separate suit later that year which was dismissed in 2015. Some of the early Internet interest noted what were considered to be unusual similarities between Lam's death and the 2002 horror film Dark Water. The case has since been referenced in international popular culture and been the subject of several creative works.

32-year-old Rebecca Zahau seemed to have it all until she's found dead in a multi-million dollar mansion hanging from a balcony under bizarre circumstances. Police rule her death a suicide, but some are not believing it.

20-year-old Lauren Spierer goes for a night out with friends in June 2011. The gorgeous college coed has never been seen since.