Sydney told Newsweek the condition of the note and the place it was found in hinted at something heartbreaking involving the ...

For nearly a decade, sleuths had tried to decode a cryptic note discovered in the silk bustle dress. An analyst finally cracked the case. By Livia Albeck-Ripka Sara Rivers Cofield was on her usual ...

BISMARCK — Sara Rivers Cofield loved the dress at first sight. It was a beautiful brown silk bustle dress with original buttons from the 1880s, on sale at an antique mall in Maine. Rivers Cofield, an ...