The date was April 24th, 1981, and farmer Greg Bridenbaugh was driving along Greenlee Road near the city of Troy, Ohio, when he saw what appeared to be an incongruous piece of clothing in the dirt just off the shoulder. Upon stopping his vehicle and examining the scene more closely, he was shocked to discover … More Marcia King: Buckskin Girl
Sixty-two-year-old Clarence Raymond Case, called Ray by friends and family, was a veteran of World War I, and had worked as a welder for many years before retiring to go into business for himself. Along with his wife Edith, he opened a tavern in Davenport, Iowa called Ray and Edith’s Travel Inn, at which the … More Clarence Raymond Case
In the summer of 1980, a young woman would go missing from her hometown of Nashua, New Hampshire and later turn up dead in the deserts of Arizona. Though she remained unidentified for decades, referred to as Pima County Jane Doe or “Flower Girl,” she was finally given her rightful name in the summer of … More Brenda Gerow
July 29th, 1981 was a significant day in British history, as it was the wedding day of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer, who would famously go on to become the much beloved Princess Di. London was thronged with spectators to the lavish event, and among the crowds was a small family known as the … More Vishal Mehrotra
On August 29th of 1960, a little girl in Oregon would disappear from a bean field, though her fate would not be discovered until weeks later. Seven-year-old Alice Louise Lee was playing in a field of green beans on that summer morning in late August. The field was part of Swan’s bean yard, north of … More Alice Louise Lee
On January 12th, 1981, a dog sniffing around a privately-owned, wooded area near Houston, Texas discovered the partially buried and decomposed bodies of two probable teenagers who remained unidentified until very recently. The victims had apparently been murdered about two months previously, and the amount of time that had passed since their deaths meant that … More Harris County Does
In the autumn of 1969, British Columbia, Canada would see the first occurrence in a more than fifty-year series of murders and disappearances of largely Aboriginal women from particular stretches of Highways 16, 97, and 5, an area which over the ensuing decades would come to be known by the eerily evocative name of the … More The Highway of Tears Murders
Before 1965 came to a close, a businessman would disappear without trace on a freezing cold night in Iowa, and his case would bleed over into the following year. Fifty-two-year-old Donald Amos Nervig was the co-owner of a speedometer and electrical services company in Des Moines. On Tuesday, December 14th, he reportedly told a coworker … More Donald Nervig
In the spring of 1980, twenty-two-year-old university student Jessie Earl was elated to have finished her exams, and was looking forward to taking a little break. A second-year graphics student at Eastbourne College of Art and Design in Sussex, England, Jessie lived alone in a small bedsit, but on Wednesday, May 14th, she called her … More Jessie Earl
Thirty-eight-year-old shoe-shine man Israel “Chuck” Fowler shared a house on East Clark Street in Pasco, Washington with thirty-seven-year-old waitress and seamstress Celeste Dixon—who had only arrived in town three days previously—and twenty-nine-year-old Robbie Jean Harris, who worked as an exotic dancer at the nearby Kingfish Club. On the night of August 11th, 1960, two other … More Truman H. Brown, Celeste Dixon, Israel Fowler & Robbie Jean Harris
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