In the spring of 1922, a shocking crime occurred that would capture the public imagination for decades to come, mostly due to its deeply unsettling details that were seemingly ripped straight out of a horror movie. On a remote Bavarian farmstead known as Hinterkaifeck, forty-three miles north of Munich, lived the Gruber family, consisting of … More The Hinterkaifeck Murders
It was the afternoon of April 9th, 1953 in Rome, Italy. The mother and sister of twenty-one-year-old Wilma Montesi invited her along to the movies, but Wilma declined, not particularly wanting to see the film in question. Wilma was quite a beautiful young woman, and had aspirations of her own to be an actress; she … More Wilma Montesi
Maria Hsiao had just turned twenty-one years old, and by all measures, had a bright future ahead of her. She had grown up in San Leandro, California, where she still lived, and was attending college at the California Academy of Art in San Francisco, where she was studying to be a digital effects designer. According … More Maria Hsiao
As the summer of 1954 faded into early fall, England would see a young woman fall victim to a faceless assailant in the night-time city streets. Jean Townsend was twenty-one years old, and worked as a costumer for many of the theaters around London’s famed West End. On the evening of September 14th, Jean had … More Jean Townsend
As June of 1978 neared its end in Scottsdale, Arizona, a crime occurred which still holds a fascination for the public more than forty years later, not only because of the violence of the killing and the sordid details which emerged in its wake, but also because of the immensely famous victim. Boyishly handsome actor … More Bob Crane
In the late spring of 1970, in Norman, Oklahoma, a double homicide with decidedly Zodiac-like characteristics would take place on a remote lover’s lane. It was the evening of Saturday, May 9th, 1970, and twenty-one-year-old David Sloan had taken his nineteen-year-old girlfriend Sheryl Lynn Benham to a party at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house … More Sheryl Lynn Benham & David Sloan: The Ten Mile Flat Murder
Only weeks before Christmas of 1984, a young schoolgirl would be waylaid on the way home from a holiday party in England, and her murder would remain unsolved nearly four decades later. Fourteen-year-old Lisa Hession had been attending a small celebration with friends, as well as her sixteen-year-old boyfriend Craig Newell, in the town of … More Lisa Hession
A few days before Christmas of 1970, an Iowa woman would turn up dead in circumstances that involved a nasty divorce and an illicit affair. Thirty-seven-year-old Mary Bernice Lange worked as a clerk at the Burlington Municipal Court and was also the mother to three children aged eleven, fourteen, and eighteen. In 1970, Mary and … More Mary Bernice Lange
Only a couple of days after Christmas of 1966, two boys enjoying their school holidays were happily scrounging through some abandoned buildings on Spa Lane in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. In a derelict warehouse that had once been part of the Scarsdale Brewery, the boys suddenly came upon an appalling sight: the mostly-nude body of a … More Mavis Hudson
In the winter of 1995, a little girl in Ohio would vanish while walking to school. She would not be found until two months into the following year. Thirteen-year-old Barbara Barnes was a quiet, conscientious child who volunteered at the Salvation Army and was a favorite of her teachers at Harding Middle School in Steubenville, … More Barbara Barnes
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