It was late afternoon on Saturday, February 26th, 1921, among the numerous farms that occupied the land outside the village of North Motton in Tasmania, Australia. Ena May Dawes gave her daughter Chrissie Venn a basket and some money, and asked the fourteen-year-old if she would walk the three miles into town to buy some … More Chrissie Venn
Vera Page was ten years old, an avid swimmer who lived in the Notting Hill district of London. At around four-thirty on the afternoon of December 14th, 1931, she asked her mother if she could walk the fifty yards to her aunt Minnie’s house; she wanted to stop by and show her aunt some swimming … More Vera Page
On July 20th, 1932, in East Sussex, England, twenty-three-year-old Arthur Edward Harman rose at five-twenty a.m., fixed himself and his wife Queenie a cup of cocoa, fed the couple’s one-year-old child, then caught the bus to the hauling company in Baldslow where he worked as a truck driver. As soon as he got to work, … More Queenie Winifred Harman
It was January 14th, 1953, in Stanley Park, Vancouver, British Columbia. A park employee, Albert Tong, was walking near Beaver Lake when he stepped on a patch of ground that didn’t feel quite right. He knelt down in the underbrush and dug around a bit, almost immediately discovering a woman’s rain coat buried beneath the … More Babes in the Wood Murders: Derek and David D’Alton
It was a little past nine p.m. on the night of November 1st, 1980, when a truck driver making his way past the Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville, Texas saw the nude body of a young girl lying about six yards off the shoulder of Interstate Highway 45. The victim was a white female … More Sherri Ann Jarvis
Autumn of 1980 began to fall, and out in the American West, two brothers were driving along a dirt road in Henderson, Nevada. It was about nine-thirty p.m. on the evening of Sunday, October 5th. Suddenly, one of the brothers, off-duty police officer John Williams, spotted something strange lying in the scrub off State Road … More Tammy Terrell
Twenty-three-year-old Melanie Carpenter lived in her native Vancouver with her boyfriend, and managed a tanning salon called Island Tan in the suburb of Surrey. On the afternoon of January 6th, 1995, in fact, she was working at the salon alone, and had received several phone calls, purportedly from a man representing a Japanese investment firm … More Melanie Carpenter
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