Before 1965 came to a close, a businessman would disappear without trace on a freezing cold night in Iowa, and his case would bleed over into the following year. Fifty-two-year-old Donald Amos Nervig was the co-owner of a speedometer and electrical services company in Des Moines. On Tuesday, December 14th, he reportedly told a coworker … More Donald Nervig

Thirty-eight-year-old shoe-shine man Israel “Chuck” Fowler shared a house on East Clark Street in Pasco, Washington with thirty-seven-year-old waitress and seamstress Celeste Dixon­—who had only arrived in town three days previously—and twenty-nine-year-old Robbie Jean Harris, who worked as an exotic dancer at the nearby Kingfish Club. On the night of August 11th, 1960, two other … More Truman H. Brown, Celeste Dixon, Israel Fowler & Robbie Jean Harris

Only a couple of days after Christmas of 1966, two boys enjoying their school holidays were happily scrounging through some abandoned buildings on Spa Lane in Chesterfield, Derbyshire, England. In a derelict warehouse that had once been part of the Scarsdale Brewery, the boys suddenly came upon an appalling sight: the mostly-nude body of a … More Mavis Hudson

London, Ontario, lies in the southwestern portion of the province, a little over 100 miles from Toronto. It’s the definition of an average city, in regards to demographics, so much so that it’s often used as a test market for new products being introduced into Canada. But from approximately 1959 through 1984, London, Ontario saw … More Murder City: London, Ontario, Canada

The year of 1967 would be less than a week old before a seemingly random murder in England would shock the public with its grisly and scandalous details. Seventeen-year-old Bernard Oliver hailed from North London, and worked in a warehouse near his home in Muswell Hill. By all accounts, he was a friendly, soft-spoken young … More Bernard Oliver: The Tattingstone Suitcase Murder

In the very early summer of 1960, a heinous triple murder at a camp site would sear itself into the cultural framework of Finland, and eventually become one of the most infamous unsolved homicides in the Western world. It was a Saturday in early June, in a town called Vantaa, not far from Finland’s capital … More The Lake Bodom Murders

The streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin were dark and sparsely populated as Edwin Smith made his way home at a little past midnight on Saturday, August 23rd, 1960. But just as he steered his vehicle past the four-hundred block of North Plankinton Avenue, the quiet night was shattered by the sound of a woman screaming for … More Ida Lowry

It was the evening of October 31st, 1963 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Seventy-year-old Katherine Lillian Armstrong, who usually answered to her middle name, was preparing to go to the nearby Methodist church for choir practice, as she did every Thursday evening. Lillian, a retired headmistress and lifelong spinster, had been a member of the congregation … More Katherine Lillian Armstrong: The Halloween Murder

It was May, and Anne Dunwell had been staying with her aunt in Bramley, South Yorkshire, but only a few days into her visit, she decided to go back to her home in Whiston, where she lived with her grandparents. Reportedly, she had been meaning to stay with her aunt for several more days, but … More Anne Dunwell