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.
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
On December 11th, 2000, in Richmond, Virginia, a young man named Donald Harris, known as Donnie to friends and family, was apparently having a normal evening. He left his home on Williamsburg Road at around eight-thirty p.m. and got into his car for the short drive to a local restaurant, where he was going to … More Donald Harris
In the summer of 2000, in Cartersville, Georgia, an employee of Lacey Mills, Inc., a rug manufacturer, became concerned when her friend and coworker, fifty-three-year-old Patricia Hanlon, failed to show up for her shift on the morning of Thursday, July 27th. This coworker, in fact, was worried enough to go to Patricia’s apartment on North … More Patricia Hanlon
It was October 3rd, 1984, and nine-year-old Christine Jessop hopped off the school bus at around three-thirty p.m. Neither her parents nor her brother Kenney was home; her father was still at work, and her mother had taken Kenney to the dentist. They expected to be home at four, and Christine’s mother had told the … More Christine Jessop
On July 9th, 2001, the decomposed body of twenty-seven-year-old mother of three Frances Lunsford was discovered behind an abandoned mobile home in Tifton, Georgia. The victim had been strangled to death. According to Frances’s mother, Sandra Purvis, she had last spoken to her daughter two days before the remains were found. Family members told the … More Frances Lunsford
It was nearly three p.m. on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 31st, when passersby walking near the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany spotted a body floating in the water. The dark-haired girl who was pulled from the waves looked as though she had suffered through unimaginable physical torture for years before she was finally murdered. … More The Girl from the Main
Forty-four-year-old Gary Raynal had only lived in Kansas City, Kansas for five years; prior to that, he had resided in San Francisco, California. He worked as a server at various area restaurants, but in 2001, had been making plans to move to the much warmer environs of central Florida. Sadly, he would never get the … More Gary Raynal
