The Teen Who Was Brutally Attacked By Her Boss and Best Friend

In this episode of Outback Murder Highway, 22-year-old Jayden Penon-Thompsett vanishes during a New Year's Eve road trip after stopping on Queensland's notorious Flinders Highway. By retracing his final movements through CCTV footage, phone records and witness testimony, investigators uncover new clues that challenge the official timeline. When human remains are discovered near Jayden's last known location, one of Australia's most baffling missing person cases takes a dramatic new turn. Could this finally reveal what happened on Australia's infamous Highway of Death?

Right now, above your head, there are more stars than grains of sand on every beach on Earth. Many of them are billions of years older than our Sun. Around some of them, life could have started a full billion years before it ever stirred on our planet. So the galaxy should be crowded. Full of voices. Full of signals. Instead we aim our sharpest telescopes at the sky and find nothing. That silence is the Fermi Paradox, and time makes it far worse. We will visit worlds that had a massive head start on us, read a cosmic clock that says we showed up strangely early, and stare down a barrier that might be waiting in our future. If deep space mysteries keep you up at night, tap like and subscribe so you never miss one. Now settle in. We begin.

You are looking at a map of the universe, and there is something in it that should not be there. James Webb aimed its mirror into the deep dark and found a structure so wide that our best theories snap trying to measure it. Billions of light years across. Older than it has any right to be. Tonight we travel to a galaxy that grew up too fast, a ring of matter bigger than any law allows, and a web of light stretching back to the dawn of time. Each stop is stranger than the last. Scientists spent whole careers building rules for how big things can get, and this discovery breaks those rules in half. If cosmic mysteries keep you up at night, hit like and subscribe so you never miss the next journey. Buckle in. We begin. Sources

For decades, many families in India and China did not want daughters. Girls were often aborted, killed as infants, abandoned, or sold. But in recent years, things have started to change. Political decisions aimed at curbing rapid population growth in India and China, together with a widespread preference for boys for economic reasons, have led to a situation where both countries now have more men than women. Again and again, the preference for sons over daughters caused families to resort to radical measures, ranging from sex-selective abortions to infanticide, the abandonment of girls, and, in China, the sale of girls after birth. As early as 1990, Indian economist Amartya Sen, who would later win the Nobel Prize in Economics, warned that more than 100 million women were "missing" in the developing world, and especially in India and China, in the ratio to men. Today, many men in China and India are unable to find wives due to the shortage of women. That is one of the factors that has led to a shift in thinking in both countries—both in politics

From Galileo’s clash with the Inquisition to Immanuel Kant’s revolution of reason, this comprehensive documentary explores the greatest minds of the Enlightenment. Discover how radical thinkers like Hobbes, Descartes, Locke, Spinoza, and Hume defied religious doctrine, questioned the nature of reality, and risked execution to shape modern science, politics, and human rights. Witness the intellectual war that shattered medieval dogma and forged the modern Western world. You can now become a History Hit member right here on the original video platform! Join for access to a new exclusive documentary every week, and access to over 160+ of our documentaries presented by world renowned historians like Dan Snow, Eleanor Janega, Tristan Hughes, Mary Beard, Matt Lewis and more. This channel is part of the History Hit Network. Any queries, please contact owned-enquiries@littledotstudios.com

Why Did the El Faro Sail Directly Into a Category 4 Hurricane? In 2015, the cargo ship El Faro sailed into the eye of Hurricane Joaquin and vanished with 33 crew members. This is the story of the fatal decision to face the storm, the high-tech deep-sea search for the wreck, and the final recorded moments on the ship's black box that revealed the truth behind one of the worst modern American maritime disasters.