Katarzyna Zowada, often called Kasia, was a twenty-three-year-old student of religious studies at the prestigious Jagiellonian University in Kraków, Poland. She was described by those who knew her as quiet, shy, sensitive, trusting, and somewhat withdrawn. Following the death of her father, she struggled with depression and received treatment at a psychiatric clinic in Kraków’s … More Katarzyna Zowada
John Arthur “Jaki” Byard Jr. was born on June 15th, 1922, in Worcester, Massachusetts. A highly versatile and eclectic musician, Jaki was proficient on multiple instruments, including piano (his primary), trumpet, saxophones, and more. His playing style masterfully blended stride piano, bebop, avant-garde, ragtime, classical influences, and even elements of vaudeville and theater music, earning … More Jaki Byard
On the evening of June 1st, 1999, in the quiet Burgundian city of Mâcon, France, seventeen-year-old Vanessa Thiellon left her family home on boulevard Henri-Dunant after a heated argument. Vanessa, an apprentice chef who was described as lively and determined, reportedly left to meet her boyfriend, known in reports as Seyit, following the dispute that … More Vanessa Thiellon
Akiel Chambers was born on January 4th, 1987. He was a student at Blackman’s Private School in Maraval, Port of Spain. On May 23rd, 1998, he went to celebrate the eleventh birthday of his classmate Carrie James at her family home on Balata Trace in Haleland Park, Maraval, an affluent suburb of Port of Spain. … More Akiel Chambers
On July 11th, 1996, the half-nude body of thirty-one-year-old Canadian Blair Adams was discovered in the parking lot of an under-construction hotel (a future Country Inn & Suites) at 7471 Crosswood Boulevard, near the Strawberry Plains Pike exit off Interstate 40, east of Knoxville, Tennessee. Construction workers found him around seven-thirty a.m., initially mistaking him … More Blair Adams
Twenty-two-year-old Anna Kembrowska, originally from Jastrzębie-Zdrój, Poland, and twenty-five-year-old Robert Odżga, from Międzylesie, were students at the Agricultural Academy in Wrocław (now the University of Environmental and Life Sciences). Anna was in her third year studying environmental protection, while Robert had completed his fourth year in geodesy and cartography. The pair shared a profound love … More Anna Kembrowska and Robert Odżga
In the early morning hours of Saturday, November 28th, 1992, the quiet streets of Poughkeepsie, New York, became the scene of a shocking crime that has haunted the Hudson Valley region for over three decades. Brian Kaiser, a forty-one-year-old local taxi driver described by those who knew him as a hard-working and fun-loving individual, was … More Brian Kaiser
On the evening of August 17th, 1992, eleven-year-old Holly Staker was babysitting for Dawn Engelbrecht’s two young children at an apartment in Waukegan, a city north of Chicago in Lake County, Illinois. Engelbrecht had left the children in Holly’s care while she ran an errand. When Engelbrecht returned, she found the back door kicked in … More Holly Staker
Bob Mellors (born 1950), a pioneering British gay rights activist and co-founder of the Gay Liberation Front (GLF) in London in 1970, was a key figure in the early radical phase of the LGBTQ+ movement in the United Kingdom. Alongside figures like Aubrey Walter, he helped launch the GLF, inspired by the Stonewall Riots, promoting … More Bob Mellors
On May 26th, 1993, seventeen-year-old Jayne (sometimes spelled Jane) Furlong vanished from the bustling Karangahape Road (commonly known as K’ Road) in Auckland, New Zealand, a central city strip notorious in the early 1990s for street-based sex work. Her disappearance sparked immediate concern, but it would take nearly nineteen years for her fate to be … More Jayne Furlong
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