Carrie Brumfield lived in Franklinton, Louisiana, but worked at a shipyard in Mississippi. On September 12th, 1967, passersby discovered him dead in the front seat of his car, which was parked on a deserted rural road. He had been shot once in the chest with a .22 caliber pistol. Police seemed to be at a … More Carrie Brumfield

Fifty-four-year-old Dr. Helen Davidson had been practicing medicine in the market town of Amersham, Buckinghamshire for more than two decades. On the afternoon of Wednesday, November 9th, 1966, after her husband had gone off to work, Helen hopped into her car, accompanied by her beloved terrier Fancy. Presumably, Helen was heading toward Hodgemoor Wood to … More Dr. Helen Davidson

In late July of 1966, there would be another racially-motivated murder in Louisiana that tragically recalled the 1965 slaying of Deputy Sheriff Oneal Moore. Twenty-four-year-old Clarence Triggs was an Army veteran and a bricklayer who had only just moved to Bogalusa, Louisiana with his wife Emma from their former home in Jackson, Mississippi. Though he … More Clarence Triggs

On May 23rd, 1966, forty-year-old Ohio State University professor and rocket scientist Loren E. Bollinger was found dead in a pool of blood in a storage room. The well-liked and unmarried professor had tempered his resignation with the college shortly before, and had planned to open up his own office that July in the building … More Loren Bollinger

At approximately one-thirty a.m. on the morning of October 6th, 1966, someone peered out of his apartment window in Paterson, New Jersey and witnessed three thugs slitting the throat of a fourth man on the porch of the apartment next door. The victim, forty-two-year-old Gabriel “Johnny the Walk” DeFranco, was dead at the scene. He … More Gabriel DeFranco

On March 13th, 1966 in Clifton, New Jersey, a man out walking his dog came across the remains of a partially nude woman in a gully off the Garden State Parkway. The victim had been strangled and shot twice in the head, and though she was left naked from the waist down, it was later … More Judith Kavanaugh

The Bricca family—twenty-eight-year-old Jerry, his twenty-three-year-old wife Linda, and the couple’s four-year-old daughter Debbie—had moved to the pleasant, middle-class enclave of Green Township near Cincinnati in 1963. Jerry was a chemical engineer for Monsanto, and had been transferred from their Seattle plant. Linda had worked as a flight attendant prior to the move, and once … More The Bricca Family

It was very early on the morning of September 18th, 1966. All was quiet in the posh, stately Kenilworth home of the Percy family, occupied by Bell & Howell executive and U.S. Senatorial candidate Charles Percy, his second wife Loraine, and his five children, three of whom were a product of his first marriage to … More Valerie Percy

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