The Space Child and the Neighbor Who Lived in a Mobile Home - A True Crime Story | IBRA

The backfire effect is when a correction increases belief in the very misconception it is attempting to correct, and it is often used as a reason not to correct misinformation. The current study aimed...

MOBILE, Ala. (WKRG) — Mobile Police Department officers arrested a man Tuesday after he allegedly trespassed on a business property and gave a false name to police. An MPD news release said officers were called to Inge and Associates around 9:30 p.m. on Tuesday, May 27, for a report of a person on the property. [...]

On Christmas Eve morning, 2010, a family in East Texas makes a devastating discovery in their driveway. But the tragedy is only the beginning. When relatives search the deceased woman's home days later, they find a locked strongbox hidden at the bottom of a craft supplies container. Inside are documents, photographs, and cryptic scraps of paper. What follows is a years-long investigation involving a determined federal agent, cutting-edge forensic science, and thousands of amateur detectives on the internet, all trying to answer a seemingly simple question: Who was she? The trail leads through stolen identities, falsified documents, and a woman who went to extraordinary lengths to erase every trace of her past. But the deeper question remains: Why would someone work so hard to become a ghost?