In the very early spring of 1966, a terrifyingly random murder of a little girl on a New Jersey street in the middle of a sunny afternoon would mark the beginning of a formerly safe town’s tragic downward spiral. It was about four p.m. on March 8th, and seven-year-old Wendy Sue Wolin was standing on … More Wendy Wolin
Louis Allen was a native of Liberty, Mississippi, where he had lived all his life, save for a stint in the Army during World War II. He had worked as a farmhand and a logger, and was eventually able to save enough money to purchase his own land, from which he ran a small logging … More Louis Allen
On the fifth of December 1982, a trucker by the name of Ted Hammond was driving a route that took him through Moss Point, Mississippi when he noticed what appeared to be the body of a young woman floating in the Dog River (now known as the Escatawpa River). He called police, informing them that … More Alisha Heinrich: Delta Dawn
On February 14th, 1982, an officer from the Arizona Department of Public Safety was patrolling an area off westbound Interstate 40 near the town of Williams, when he came upon the body of a young woman lying beneath a cedar tree just twenty feet off the shoulder of the road. Because of the date on … More Carolyn Eaton: Valentine Sally
Mary Margaret Andrews, known as Peggy to her friends and family, was nineteen years old. Originally from a small town in Ohio called Winterville, she had moved to the capital city of Columbus after graduating high school in order to attend Columbus Business University. By the time 1962 rolled around, she had taken a full-time … More Mary Margaret Andrews
It was the first day of June 1981, and politics in Washington D.C. was chugging along in its usual way, until a grisly find in an apartment near Catholic University would set tongues wagging in the capitol. Raymond Nels Nelson was the son of Swedish immigrants, a fiercely intelligent and irreverent figure who had served … More Raymond Nels Nelson
Fifty-seven-year-old Wilhelmina Kruger had worked as a cleaning woman at the Piccadilly Arcade in Wollongong, New South Wales, Australia for about three years. On the morning of January 29th, 1966, Wilhelmina began her shift at around two a.m., as she usually did. Two hours later, she was spotted by a group of people who were … More Wilhelmina Kruger and Anna Dowlingkoa
In the early fall of 1922, a scandalous case in New Jersey would gin up all the tabloid fodder an eager public could possibly wish for: a double murder, a salacious affair, and the possible involvement of a wealthy and jealous spouse. In fact, prior to the Lindbergh kidnapping of the 1930s, this particular case … More The Hall-Mills Murder
Ramona Jean Cox was originally a farm girl from Moravia, Iowa, but she had moved to the capital city of Des Moines in 1956, the same year she graduated high school. She had easily secured secretarial work in the big city, and by all accounts was a well-liked, socially popular young woman who had many … More Ramona Jean Cox
On July 15th, 1982, a gravedigger named George Kise at the Cedar Ridge Cemetery in Blairstown Township, New Jersey spotted something strange in a ravine at the rear of the graveyard. Upon closer inspection, he found that it was the corpse of what appeared to be a teenage girl whose face was so badly beaten … More Dawn Olanick: Princess Doe
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