In Iowa, the first week of March 1968 would see a bizarre missing persons case that bore eerie similarities to the 1962 murders of Christine and Julie Louise Maps in Pennsylvania, though the two crimes were almost certainly unrelated. Twenty-year-old Gary Eugene Sebek shared an apartment in Hamburg, Iowa with his young wife Shirley and … More Gary Sebek

Forty-six-year-old Catherine Duncan and her husband Thomas had spent the evening of Friday, February 2nd, 1968 engaging in one of their favorite pastimes: playing bingo at the Wallyford Miners’ Welfare Society Social Club, which was only a short walk from their home in the little Scottish mining village. The couple had, by all accounts, had … More Catherine Duncan

Eighteen-year-old Sheila Jean Collins was originally from Evanston, Illinois, but moved to Ames, Iowa shortly after graduating high school to attend Iowa State University, where she was a freshman in the early part of 1968. By all accounts, she was a well-liked and studious young woman who worked part-time in the cafeteria in her dorm, … More Sheila Jean Collins

Eighteen-year-old Christine Rothschild was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, having just moved into a dormitory on campus the previous autumn from her native Chicago. She was studying journalism, and had even managed to get some work modeling for department store catalogs on the side. On the morning of Sunday, May 26th, 1968, … More Christine Rothschild

Carrie Brumfield lived in Franklinton, Louisiana, but worked at a shipyard in Mississippi. On September 12th, 1967, passersby discovered him dead in the front seat of his car, which was parked on a deserted rural road. He had been shot once in the chest with a .22 caliber pistol. Police seemed to be at a … More Carrie Brumfield

Fifty-four-year-old Dr. Helen Davidson had been practicing medicine in the market town of Amersham, Buckinghamshire for more than two decades. On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 9th, 1966, after her husband had gone off to work, Helen hopped into her car, accompanied by her beloved terrier Fancy. Presumably, Helen was heading toward Hodgemoor Wood to … More Dr. Helen Davidson

In late July of 1966, there would be another racially-motivated murder in Louisiana that tragically recalled the 1965 slaying of Deputy Sheriff Oneal Moore. Twenty-four-year-old Clarence Triggs was an Army veteran and a bricklayer who had only just moved to Bogalusa, Louisiana with his wife Emma from their former home in Jackson, Mississippi. Though he … More Clarence Triggs

On May 23rd, 1966, forty-year-old Ohio State University professor and rocket scientist Loren E. Bollinger was found dead in a pool of blood in a storage room. The well-liked and unmarried professor had tempered his resignation with the college shortly before, and had planned to open up his own office that July in the building … More Loren Bollinger

At approximately one-thirty a.m. on the morning of October 6th, 1966, someone peered out of his apartment window in Paterson, New Jersey and witnessed three thugs slitting the throat of a fourth man on the porch of the apartment next door. The victim, forty-two-year-old Gabriel “Johnny the Walk” DeFranco, was dead at the scene. He … More Gabriel DeFranco

On March 13th, 1966 in Clifton, New Jersey, a man out walking his dog came across the remains of a partially nude woman in a gully off the Garden State Parkway. The victim had been strangled and shot twice in the head, and though she was left naked from the waist down, it was later … More Judith Kavanaugh