Thirty-seven-year-old Ricky Espinoza was a fun-loving individual, always ready for a party and well-liked by pretty much everyone. He had been working as a server at various hotel banquets in the Denver, Colorado area, but at the end of June 2001 was unemployed. He was staying with his mother in Colorado Springs, and apparently, on … More Ricky Espinoza
On the afternoon of June 1st, 1948, a woman and her daughter rushed to a train station in Texarkana. Secretly, the woman, Hazel Carpenter, hoped the train had already left so that she could drive her daughter to her destination, but unfortunately, the train was still on the platform. The younger woman kissed her mother … More Virginia Carpenter
It was around noon on August 9th, 1974. Seventeen-year-old Mary Ann Pryor decided to go to the Garden State Plaza Mall in Paramus, New Jersey to look for a new bathing suit; she had a gift certificate for Macy’s she wanted to use. Since she didn’t want to go alone, she called up her friend, … More Lorraine Kelly and Mary Ann Pryor
Fifty-six-year-old schoolteacher Lillian Elizabeth Hedman Randolph had not had very good luck with the men in her life. Her beloved first husband Bob O’Hara, with whom she had two children, had died of an accidental fall at the couple’s home in 1945.Five years after that, Lillian married again, this time to a man named Roy … More Lillian Hedman Randolph
It was the afternoon of October 9th, 1965. Fourteen-year-old Elsie Frost had been hanging out with her friends at the sailing club on Horbury Lagoon. It was nearing four p.m., and the teenagers decided to start making their way back home. Elsie’s friends set off along the towpath that lay parallel to the Calder and … More Elsie Frost
Irving Sicherer, better known as Al, was originally from Brooklyn, New York, but moved to Miami Beach, Florida with his wife and adopted son in 1967; the couple had another child three years later. Al was in catering, and worked as a maître d’ at the upscale Tides Hotel for many years. It seems, though, … More Irving “Al” Sicherer
Twenty-one-year-old Suellen Evans was majoring in home economics at the University of North Carolina in Chapel Hill. In 1965, she had just enrolled and signed up for several summer classes, and on the morning of Friday, July 30th, she had two of them: sociology and education. After classes were over for the day, she was … More Suellen Evans
In the summer of 1965, within the seemingly all-American confines of Nashville, Tennessee, a disturbing homicide would occur that would be something of a bellwether of a grisly string of crimes that would plague one area of the city up until late 1969. Though it remains possible that the chilling murders of three local girls, … More The Nashville Murders
In the late summer of 1984, in Australia, there would be a shocking double murder in a Victoria suburb which remains one of the best-known unsolved homicides in the country. Thirty-five-year-old nurse and law student Margaret Tapp was a beautiful and socially popular young woman, and apparently had no qualms about getting attention from married … More Margaret and Seana Tapp
On February 28th in St. Louis, Missouri, two individuals broke into an abandoned Victorian house on Clemens Avenue, ostensibly to look for scrap metal. While they were in the basement of the dwelling, one of them decided to light a cigarette, and the glow from its tip suddenly illuminated a grisly scene. Lying on the … More St. Louis Jane Doe
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