Twelve-year-old Keith Lyon was a talented classical musician, the son of a Brighton band leader named Ken Lyon and his wife Valda. Keith also had a seven-year-old brother named Peter, and lived with his family in the village of Ovingdean, Brighton and Hove, Sussex, England. At a little past two p.m. on the afternoon of … More Keith Lyon

Fifty-three-year-old Lottie Watson Snead was a respected and well-liked member of her community in Chincoteague, Virginia; she was very active in her church and had worked as a clerk at a local grocery store for many years. On the evening of Monday, June 8th, 1964, Lottie had been to services at the Union Baptist Church … More Lottie Watson Snead

Five-year-old David Lawrence lived with his parents, Joyce and George, in a block of flats on Manciple Street in Southwark, south London. On the afternoon of March 8th, 1968, the child had gone shopping with his aunt, and then, after returning home, headed over to play on the swings at Tabard Gardens, a small park … More David Lawrence

Fourteen-year-old Teresa Martin was a bright but shy girl, a student at a convent school called Regina Assumpta College in Montréal, Quebec, Canada. She lived with her parents, a school principal and a private investigator, and spent weekends riding horses at a nearby ranch. On September 12th, 1969, Teresa had gone to the movies with … More Teresa Martin

At around four-thirty p.m. on the afternoon of August 7th, 1962, sixteen-year-old Julian “Julie” Wolanski told her mother that she was going to the Eglinton subway station in Toronto, Ontario, Canada, in order to meet with a teacher about some credit requirements to finish Grade 9. She was never seen alive again. Five days later, … More Julian “Julie” Wolanski

It was August 7th, 1969, and workers along I-93 near Salem, New Hampshire spotted what appeared to be human remains in a small pit of water on the side of the highway not far from the Pelham Road exit ramp. Examination of the corpse demonstrated that the individual was a white male between twenty-eight and … More Winston Richard Morris: Salem Unidentified Male

On the first day of February 1968, in West Alton, Missouri, a fisherman cast his line into a lake near Highway 67, and reeled in a macabre mystery. At the end of the man’s hook was an inexpensive black suitcase, sunk in about three feet of water in Lake Alton, four yards from the shore. … More Jane Doe West Alton

In 1969, on the campus of one of America’s most prestigious universities, an academically accomplished young woman would meet her end in a bizarre murder that had possible aspects of a ritualistic burial ceremony. And less than a month after that, another woman who also had connections to the same college was found murdered less … More Jane Britton and Ada Bean

In the late winter of 1966, in Edinburgh, Scotland, fifty-five-year-old businessman David McMenigall was dining alone at the trendy L’Aperitif restaurant, a place to see and be seen among the city’s creative elite. David, who came from somewhat humble beginnings, had worked his way up as an appliance salesman before eventually starting his own successful … More David McMenigall

In September of 1969, as the leaves began their spectacular fall transformation in central Vermont, the beauty of the landscape would be marred by the gruesome double murder of a vacationing couple. James and Iola Hipp were retired and had planned a months-long trek from their home in Lutz, Florida up the coast into New … More James and Iola Hipp