It was around a quarter past seven in the morning on Tuesday, June 11th, 1968 when fifteen-year-old Joanne Dunham left her residence at the Raiche mobile home park in Charlestown, New Hampshire, heading for the bus stop a half-mile away. The young teenager would never arrive at Fall Mountain High School that day. When Joanne … More Joanne Dunham

On Tuesday, September 27th, 1966, six-year-old Allen Redston left school at 3pm, accompanied by a friend. On their way home, they stopped by a local shop to buy popsicles, then both boys continued on to the Redston house, located in Curtin, a suburb of Canberra, Australia. Once there, Allen’s mother gave her son some money … More Allen Redston

The Sims family had recently moved to Tallahassee, Florida from their former home in Meridian, Mississippi, and were already a beloved and well-respected clan in their middle-class neighborhood. Forty-two-year-old Dr. Robert Sims was the Director of Data Processing for the Florida Department of Education, and his thirty-four-year-old wife Helen served as church secretary and pianist … More The Sims Family

It was April 16th, 1968, and the Arellano family was taking a two-hundred-mile road trip from their home in Villa de Fuente, Mexico to the town of San Angelo, Texas, where a relative had just had a baby. The traveling clan consisted of twenty-six-year-old Juan Manuel, his twenty-five-year-old wife Maria, the couple’s three children—five-year-old Manuel … More The Arellano Family

On the morning of Friday, March 22nd, 1968, twenty-five-year-old Geraldine Lempke Maggert was at the apartment in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that she shared with her four-year-old daughter Richine. Geraldine and her husband Richard had divorced in mid-1967, after which Richard had moved to Ithaca, New York, and Geraldine had taken a job as a secretary … More Geraldine Lempke Maggert

Seventy-six-year-old Andrew “Andy” Hatges, a Greek immigrant who had come to the United States at the age of eighteen and subsequently served in the military before opening his first grocery store in 1962, was a much-loved fixture in Mason City. By 1968, he was running the West Vu Market on Fourth Street, and lived alone … More Andy Hatges

In Iowa, the first week of March 1968 would see a bizarre missing persons case that bore eerie similarities to the 1962 murders of Christine and Julie Louise Maps in Pennsylvania, though the two crimes were almost certainly unrelated. Twenty-year-old Gary Eugene Sebek shared an apartment in Hamburg, Iowa with his young wife Shirley and … More Gary Sebek

Forty-six-year-old Catherine Duncan and her husband Thomas had spent the evening of Friday, February 2nd, 1968 engaging in one of their favorite pastimes: playing bingo at the Wallyford Miners’ Welfare Society Social Club, which was only a short walk from their home in the little Scottish mining village. The couple had, by all accounts, had … More Catherine Duncan

Eighteen-year-old Sheila Jean Collins was originally from Evanston, Illinois, but moved to Ames, Iowa shortly after graduating high school to attend Iowa State University, where she was a freshman in the early part of 1968. By all accounts, she was a well-liked and studious young woman who worked part-time in the cafeteria in her dorm, … More Sheila Jean Collins

Eighteen-year-old Christine Rothschild was a freshman at the University of Wisconsin, Madison, having just moved into a dormitory on campus the previous autumn from her native Chicago. She was studying journalism, and had even managed to get some work modeling for department store catalogs on the side. On the morning of Sunday, May 26th, 1968, … More Christine Rothschild