In the early morning hours of December 4th, 2001, a fisherman casting for steelhead in the Grand River near Recreation Park in Painesville, Ohio, made a grim discovery. Shortly after three a.m., near the Mill Street parking lot (around 33 Mill St. and Latimore streets), the body of twenty-one-year-old Dustin Spaller was found. He had … More Dustin Spaller
Seventeen-year-old Christopher Courtemanche was born in Washington, D.C., but moved to Houston, Texas in 1986 and grew up in the Clear Lake area. He attended Clear Lake High School before earning his GED and worked at a local Barnes & Noble bookstore in Pasadena. Known for his artistic talents, he enjoyed drawing and playing guitar. … More Christopher Courtemanche
Judy Carol Rawlings was sixteen years old and lived with her family on Marsh Mountain Road in the rural community of Sophia, North Carolina. On the morning of October 3rd, 2001, her mother, Tammy Schmidt, left home around seven thirty a.m. for a doctor’s appointment related to cancer treatment. That was the last time Schmidt … More Judy Rawlings
Thirty-three-year-old Tina Rochelle Stallworth was at her apartment located on Warren Street in Toledo, Ohio on the evening of March 22nd, 2001. Sometime during that night, unknown assailant(s) fired shots into the residence from outside. One bullet struck Tina, inflicting a fatal gunshot wound. Emergency responders, initially dispatched by fire personnel responding to reports of … More Tina Rochelle Stallworth
On February 18th, 2001, friends arrived at the home of eighty-three-year-old Ella Mae Grant in Londonderry, Ohio, to pick her up for church services. When she did not answer the door, they entered and made a horrifying discovery: Grant had been shot to death inside her residence. Authorities described the crime as an apparent attempted … More Ella Mae Grant
Thirty-year-old Kelly Ostroski was as a talented individual with a background in the performing arts; she had been a singer and a ballroom dancer earlier in her life. However, by 2001, she was living in St. Petersburg, Florida, and her life was heavily impacted by crack cocaine addiction, which friends and reports indicated had taken … More Kelly Ostroski
Thirty-nine-year-old Lisa Ann Gross lived in a quiet suburban neighborhood in Westerville, Ohio, near the border with Franklin County. She was a mother to two young children, ages eleven and seven at the time. On the afternoon of May 21st, 2001, Lisa’s two children returned home from school to a horrifying scene. They found their … More Lisa Ann Gross
The murder of Francis Jegou in Brenchley Gardens, Maidstone, September 1976, remains one of Kent, England’s longstanding unsolved violent crimes from the 1970s. The case involves the brutal killing of a former special constable whose death appeared motivated by robbery, and it has drawn renewed attention over the decades due to links suggested to a … More Francis Jegou
The murder of Karen Marchioni on October 8th, 2001, remains one of Framingham, Massachusetts’s most tragic and enduring unsolved cold cases. The forty-one-year-old mother, known for her big heart, love of animals, and dedication to her young daughter, was brutally stabbed to death in her own home in a daytime attack that has left her … More Karen Marchioni
Maxwell Thomas Berty Confait, born in 1945 in the Seychelles, was a twenty-six-year-old mixed-race man who lived in a bedsit at 27 Doggett Road in Catford, South East London. Known locally as “Michelle” or sometimes “Handbag,” he was a cross-dresser who worked as a male prostitute and was part of the local gay scene. He … More Maxwell “Michelle” Confait
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