Nineteen-year-old Robin Jeanne Hoinville-Bartram and her friend, eighteen-year-old Anita Cunningham were roommates, and both studied graphic art at the Prahran Technical College in Melbourne, Australia. On July 4th, 1972, the girls packed their bags and set out to hitchhike the twenty-five-hundred miles to Bowen, Queensland to visit Robin’s mother. Over the ensuing months, the two … More Robin Jeanne Hoinville-Bartram and Anita Cunningham

May 2nd, 1972 dawned in the home of the Palmieri family in Staten Island, New York; it was just a typical day for the family of six, consisting of dad Vincent, mom Annette, and their four children: Patrick, Sal, Angela, and Vincent Jr. Thirty-six-year-old Vincent Palmieri, who worked at a print shop in Manhattan, bid … More Vincent Palmieri

Thirty-seven-year-old Donald Goines had a checkered past, to put it mildly. Born in Detroit, Michigan to middle-class parents who owned a laundry business, Donald became somewhat troubled as a teenager. At the age of fifteen, he falsified his identification and joined the Air Force, eventually going on to fight in the Korean War. While Donald … More Donald Goines

It was about quarter to eight on the morning of Tuesday, March 21st, 1972, and fourteen-year-old Marilyn Wallman was riding her bicycle to the bus stop near her family’s farm in Mackay, Queensland. Her two brothers, Rex and David, were only a few minutes behind her. A little more than half a mile from home, … More Marilyn Wallman

The year of 1972 was barely two days old when a Midwestern war veteran would be shot to death for no apparent reason whatsoever. It was the evening of Saturday, January 1st: New Year’s Day. Fifty-five-year-old Edwin Harry Jacobs, who had served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, was spending some … More Edwin Harry Jacobs

Sixteen-year-old Maria Lena Ybanez had been living a less-than-ideal life in Davenport, Iowa with her foster parents, Kathryn and Bernie Ybanez, who in the summer of 1973 were undergoing a bitter divorce, as well as enduring the loss of Kathryn’s five-year-old niece, who had been hit by a car a short time previously. Kathryn Ybanez … More Maria Lena Ybanez

As the summer of 1968 ended and autumn took hold, the City of Lights would host a mysterious murder that would eventually lead to a scandal that reached the highest levels of French government. On October 1st, the body of thirty-one-year-old Stevan Marković was discovered in a public dump in a village on the western … More Stevan Marković

In the autumn of 1967, nineteen-year-old WRAF aircraftwoman Rita Ellis was getting ready for a babysitting job on the RAF Halton base in Buckinghamshire, England. She had joined the WRAF the previous April, and by the time November rolled around, she was working for the St. Mary’s Hospital catering department on base, though she periodically … More Rita Ellis

Herbert Wilkinson was fifty-four years old, and up until 1966 had worked as a solicitor in the Cheshire village of Middlewich in England. However, he had been removed from his law practice for reasons which have since been lost to time. On June 2nd, 1967, he left a note for his housekeeper and went out … More Herbert Wilkinson

Twenty-nine-year-old barmaid Gloria Booth had been working at the White Hart pub in Northolt on the night of Saturday, June 12th, 1971. Her shift ended at half past eleven, and she began walking home shortly afterward, a journey she had taken countless times. Early the next morning, a newspaper delivery boy taking a shortcut through … More Gloria Booth