Jenny Ashford is a horror, true crime, and paranormal writer, graphic designer, and podcaster. Her most recent books are a three-volume true crime compilation collectively known as The Faceless Villain: A Collection of the Eeriest Unsolved Murders of the Twentieth Century. Volume One was published in 2017, Volume Two in 2018, and Volume Three in 2019. Her other books include four paranormal nonfiction books: The Unseen Hand: A New Exploration of Poltergeist Phenomena, The Mammoth Mountain Poltergeist (with Tom Ross), House of Fire and Whispers: Investigating the Seattle Demon House, and The Rochdale Poltergeist (both with Steve Mera); as well as three horror novels, Red Menace, Bellwether, and The Five Poisons; two short story collections, Hopeful Monsters and The Associated Villainies; and a graphic novel, The Tenebrist. A second edition of The Associated Villainies was published in 2019, featuring four new stories, an enhanced print layout, and an audio book version. A second edition of The Five Poisons was published in 2020. Her short stories have appeared in several anthologies, including The Nightmare Collective, History Is Dead, 2012AD, ChimeraWorld #3, and ChimeraWorld #4. Her horror blog, Goddess of Hellfire, contains writing news, short stories and articles, and her reviews and opinions on horror films and books. She also co-hosts a podcast with Tom Ross called 13 O'Clock, on which they discuss true crime, unexplained mysteries, paranormal weirdness, horror movies and books, food, and other fun, creepy topics. They recently collaborated on a 13 O'Clock cookbook. Jenny's graphic design work can be seen on everything from books and business cards to posters and packaging. She runs an online store called Gravecake selling products with her designs, and also has a board-and-card game concern called Giallo Games, which produces games based around the beloved Italian horror/crime genre, among many other themes.
Thirty-three-year-old Mohammed Basharat had worked as a driver for Little Horton Taxis on Park Lane in Bradford, West Yorkshire for fourteen years. He was an unusually large man, standing six-foot-five, who his workmates affectionately called “Bash.” He was the father of four children, ranging in age from nine to thirteen. On the afternoon of Friday, … More Mohammed Basharat
As 2001 wore on, more possible hate crimes continued apace in the aftermath of the September 11th terrorist attacks. Fifty-one-year-old Abdo Ali Ahmed originally hailed from Yemen, but had lived in the US for thirty-five years, and was an American citizen. He had worked as a farm laborer in the rural agricultural community of Reedley, … More Abdo Ali Ahmed
In the wake of the September 11th, 2001 terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington DC, fear and uncertainty became the norm around the nation, and appallingly, some Americans chose to channel this fear in the most destructive manner possible: by attacking innocent human beings in some sort of delusional attempt to get revenge … More Adel Karas
In the summer of 2001, in Jacksonville, Florida, nineteen-year-old Vickie Cook was spending the evening of Saturday, June 30th at home with her two young daughters, Jazmin and Alexis, and also babysitting two other children. Vickie, described as a smart young woman with a great sense of humor and a fierce devotion to her kids, … More Vickie Cook
On the last day of January 2001, another sex worker would be found dead in Canada, this time not in Edmonton, Alberta, but in Victoria, British Columbia—more than a thousand miles away. Thirty-nine-year-old Roberta Jean Elders was a mother of two who had worked as a prostitute for some time, and had been living at … More Roberta Jean Elders
In January of 2001, in the cold northern climes of Edmonton, Alberta, a young woman would turn up murdered, her death another grim statistic in the disturbingly long list of missing and murdered Aboriginal and mixed-race women and sex workers in Canada. Kelly Dawn Reilly was twenty-three years old in 2001, and like many women … More Kelly Dawn Reilly
On the afternoon of Wednesday, July 25th, 2001, thirty-year-old father of two Richie Clayton was working out at a gym in Aigburth, a suburb of Liverpool, England. He evidently left the gym for a time after his workout, but then returned a couple of hours later. Witnesses spotted him talking on his phone outside the … More Richie Clayton
Twenty-four-year-old Jerry Stamper originally hailed from Battle Creek, Michigan, though he had moved to Las Vegas, Nevada when he was a teenager. For the previous five years, he had been in a relationship with Allen Wellborn, and the couple lived together in an apartment not far from a nightclub Jerry was known to frequent. On … More Jerry Stamper
Rebecca Victoria Hall, known as Becky, was a nineteen-year-old mother living in the Little Horton area of Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. Born on December 30th, 1981, she had a four-month-old son named Jordan and struggled with heroin addiction. To support herself and her child, she earned a living as a sex worker. On the evening … More Rebecca Hall
January 18th, 2001 was, by all accounts, a perfectly ordinary evening for Tara Louise Baker, a first-year law student at the University of Georgia in Athens. She and a friend had been studying at the Law School Library on campus; her friend left at around seven p.m., but Tara—a deeply caring individual whose family and … More Tara Baker
Crime Immemorial 