Twenty-one-year-old Sydney Elysse Land was described by her family as a vibrant, kind-hearted young woman full of life and enthusiasm. A graduate of Centennial High School, she worked as a server at The Palm restaurant inside Caesars Palace’s Forum Shops in Las Vegas, Nevada. In August 2016, she moved out of her parents’ home and … More Sydney Land and Nehemiah Kauffman
In the days after Christmas of 2010, thirteen-year-old Hailey Darlene Dunn vanished from the small West Texas town of Colorado City. What began as a frantic missing-child search has since become one of the region’s most haunting cold cases: a disappearance now widely treated by investigators as a homicide. Hailey was last seen on Monday, … More Hailey Dunn
On April 30th, 2003, twenty-seven-year-old Tamara C. Greene, also known by her stage name “Strawberry,” was fatally shot in a drive-by shooting on Detroit’s west side, in a crime that has remained unsolved for more than two decades. Tamara was sitting in a car with her then-boyfriend, Eric “Big E” Mitchell, outside her Detroit neighborhood … More Tamara Greene
Thirty-two-year-old lawyer Robert Eric Wone was originally from New York City. A graduate of the College of William & Mary and the University of Pennsylvania Law School, he had established a respected legal career, working at Covington & Burling LLP before becoming general counsel at Radio Free Asia, based in downtown Washington D.C. Robert was … More Robert Wone
On the evening of September 11th, 2011, three men were violently murdered in an apartment at 12 Harding Avenue in Waltham, Massachusetts. The victims—twenty-five-year-old Brendan Mess, thirty-one-year-old Erik Weissman, and thirty-seven-year-old Raphael Teken—were found the following morning by Brendan’s girlfriend in what authorities would describe as one of the most gruesome crime scenes local investigators … More The Waltham Triple Murder
Sixteen-year-old Dwayne Jones grew up in a poor neighborhood in Montego Bay, Jamaica, and was known among friends as “Gully Queen,” a nickname reflecting both his spirited personality and the storm drainage gullies where many homeless LGBTQ youths in Jamaica find refuge. Perceived as effeminate from a young age, Jones faced relentless bullying in school. … More Dwayne Jones
On the night of October 30th-31st, 2009, a large disturbance involving between eight and twenty individuals broke out on and around Oronsay Road in Airdrie, North Lanarkshire, Scotland. The disturbance included a series of separate fights and assaults in the street. Forty-one-year-old nursing home worker Jeannie Smith had gone outside her home to check on … More Jeannie Smith
On April 4th, 2009, Damian Clough, a twelve-year-old boy from Kinara Close, Stockbridge, Keighley in West Yorkshire, England, died in a devastating house fire that was later ruled to have been caused by deliberate arson. Damian was a young boy with multiple special needs, including severe autism, learning difficulties, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and … More Damian Clough
On the morning of March 19th, 2007, a devastating fire claimed the life of three-year-old Callum Bland in his family home on Fulmar Lane, in the Hemmingwell estate of Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, England. What began as a blaze in a garbage bin outside the house quickly spread, engulfing the property in flames and toxic smoke. Callum’s … More Callum Bland
On the evening of Sunday, September 16th, 2007, nineteen-year-old Edvin Johnson was fatally stabbed in the stairwell of Barnet House, a block of flats on the Crawford Estate in Camberwell, south London. Found around nine p.m. with a single severe stab wound to his groin or leg—severing a major artery—he bled to death despite efforts … More Edvin Johnson
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