In the autumn of 1979, an unidentified woman would turn up dead in southeast England. Informally known as Bedgebury Doe, the victim was found in Bedgebury Forest in Kent on October 24th. The victim was a white woman between twenty-five and thirty-five years old, with shoulder-length brown hair and brown eyes. Post-mortem examination suggested that … More Bedgebury Doe

Thirty-nine-year-old Josephine Backshall lived in Witham, Essex, England, with her husband and three young children. She had been looking for part-time work in the area, and had placed an ad in the local newspaper, the Maldon and Burnham Standard, offering her services. Much to her surprise, she got a response to her ad almost immediately: … More Josephine Backshall

Seventeen-year-old Deborah Kozlarek and her thirteen-year-old friend Carolyn Vandermolen were seen several times on the evening of September 23rd, 1972, near their homes on the south side of Chicago. Deborah washed some clothes at a laundromat on 51st Street, and both girls were seen by multiple witnesses walking around the vicinity, as well as sitting … More Debbie Kozlarek & Carolyn Vandermolen

In the autumn of 1972, there was a disturbing massacre of an entire family in the Midwestern United States for which a motive has never been determined. Retired Army colonel Bill Peak had formerly served as a military attaché to Russia and Hungary, but by the time 1972 rolled around, he had decided to retire … More The Peak Family

In the summer of 1972, a recent high school graduate in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania would meet a ghastly end at the hands of a probable gang of savage killers. Seventeen-year-old Dolores Della Penna had been an honors student at St. Hubert’s Catholic High School, though she had received her diploma only a little more than a … More Dolores Della Penna

It was approximately six p.m. on Friday, December 17th, 1971 and a man named Werner Schmidt had just dropped off his daughter Patricia—also answering to the nickname Susi—at the home of her friend, sixteen-year-old Frieda Piechnick. Mr. Schmidt then went on to his job as a bartender at the German Club in Adelaide, South Australia. … More Patricia Schmidt

It was approximately five p.m. on the evening of November 21st, 1971 when Kathy Lynn Gloddy decided to walk to a convenience store near her home in Franklin, New Hampshire to purchase some treats. She set out with her beloved German shepherd Tasha trotting faithfully along beside her. At the store, she bought some potato … More Kathy Lynn Gloddy

It was very early on the morning of September 18th, 1966. All was quiet in the posh, stately Kenilworth home of the Percy family, occupied by Bell & Howell executive and U.S. Senatorial candidate Charles Percy, his second wife Loraine, and his five children, three of whom were a product of his first marriage to … More Valerie Percy

It was Saturday, November 24th, 1973, two days after Thanksgiving. Thirty-year-old Ethel Higonnet, a fellow of Radcliffe Institute and the wife of Harvard professor Patrice Higonnet, was walking in Longfellow Park only a few blocks from her home when she was suddenly set upon by an unknown assailant at around five-forty-five p.m. According to a … More Ethel Higonnet

It was September 2nd, 1973, and ten-year-old Brian McDermott was playing in Ormeau Park near his home in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He never came back home, and despite a massive search, his fate would be unknown until a week later. On September 9th, the child’s burned and mutilated body was found in a sack in … More Brian McDermott