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
Seventy-six-year-old widow and mother Betty Jagodzinski had overcome cancer and raised five children. By 2001, she lived alone at 332 Bronson Avenue in North Toledo, a modest home in a working-class neighborhood. She worked a morning shift at a local McDonald’s, a job she held even in her later years, reflecting her active and independent … More Betty Jagodzinski
In the early morning hours of July 23rd, 2001, twenty-year-old Wajid Coleman walked out of his home at 1302 29th Street East in Palmetto, Florida, a small city in Manatee County. He was never seen alive again. One week later, on July 30th, 2001, his body was discovered in a wooded area in the 600 … More Wajid Coleman
Between February 1976 and March 1977, a predator stalked the affluent suburbs north of Detroit, abducting four children—two boys and two girls, all between the ages of ten and twelve—along or near the Woodward Corridor in Oakland County, Michigan. The victims were held captive for days or even weeks, fed, bathed, and cared for before … More The Oakland County Child Killer
Nineteen-year-old Gloria Nadine Knutson was a senior at Hudson’s Bay High School in Vancouver, Washington. Described by those who knew her as outgoing and independent, Gloria had plans for the future, but like many young people in the 1970s, she enjoyed the social scene of her hometown. Vancouver, a growing city near the Columbia River, … More Gloria Nadine Knutson
Alma Tirtschke was a bright and dutiful young girl from Melbourne, Australia. Born in 1909, she was the daughter of a local family and attended Hawthorne West Central School. On the afternoon of December 30th, 1921, the twelve-year-old Alma was sent by her grandmother to collect a parcel of meat from a butcher in Swanston … More Alma Tirtschke: The Gun Alley Murder
Crime Immemorial 