It was February 21st, 1976, and twenty-two-year-old Maureen Mulcahy left her two children—four-year-old Penny and one-year-old Sean—in the care of her mother before going over to a friend’s house in Aberavon, Wales. Maureen and the friend then walked down to the nearby Green Meadow pub, where they both enjoyed a few pints of cider. At … More Maureen Mulcahy

In January of 1976, schoolchildren in New Zealand were enjoying their summer holidays. Thirteen-year-old Tracey Patient was walking with her older sister Debbie, not far from their home in the Auckland suburb of Henderson. The Patient family was English, but had moved to New Zealand not long before, believing that the country was a far … More Tracey Ann Patient

The year of 1975 was nearly over when a young college student was slain in Illinois, in a brutal and senseless attack. Twenty-one-year-old Carol Rofstad was living in Normal, Illinois, attending classes at Illinois State University and working at a nearby retail store during her off hours. It was only a few days before Christmas, … More Carol Rofstad

In early December of 1975, in New Jersey, the shocking massacre of nearly an entire family would leave a community reeling. The Diggs’ were one of the first black families to move into the previously all-white suburb of Teaneck, New Jersey, an upper-middle class enclave housing many erstwhile New Yorkers. Patriarch Wesley Diggs owned four … More The Diggs Family

In the summer of 1971, a young teenager would go missing and later turn up murdered, the first casualty of a short series of possibly related homicides whose victims have come to be known as the Waverly Three. It was Sunday, June 13th, 1971, and fourteen-year-old Valerie Lynn Klossowsky had been spending Sunday having a … More The Waverly Three

It was Friday, March 5th, 1971, and eighteen-year-old Palmer Junior College student Judith Anne Haecker had plans to hang out and have drinks with her friends at her one-room apartment on 15th Street in Davenport, Iowa. Judith had been spending the day with her parents, who lived only a few blocks away, but they gave … More Judith Anne Haecker

In the winter of 1971, in Durham, North Carolina, two young people would go missing in what would prove to be the tragic first chapter of a true Valentine’s Day massacre. Twenty-year-old nursing student Patricia Mann and her boyfriend, nineteen-year-old North Carolina State University student Jesse McBane, were a happy, good-looking couple who had plans … More Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann

In September of 1969, as the leaves began their spectacular fall transformation in central Vermont, the beauty of the landscape would be marred by the gruesome double murder of a vacationing couple. James and Iola Hipp were retired and had planned a months-long trek from their home in Lutz, Florida up the coast into New … More James and Iola Hipp

Forty-eight-year-old Dorothy H. Miller worked for Bolick Realty in Burlington, Iowa, the only female realtor in town. On August 15th of 1969, Dorothy Miller received a phone call from a man calling himself Robert Clark and requesting a tour of an available property on Grand Street later that night. Dorothy, wary of showing houses to … More Dorothy Miller

In the summer of 1969, a hard-working North Carolina grandmother would be mercilessly stabbed to death in her home, for reasons which are still a complete enigma. Fifty-five-year-old Elizabeth Hilts Grant was a widow who had lived alone in a house on Robinhood Road in Winston-Salem since the death of her husband in 1953. The … More Elizabeth Hilts Grant