On January 9th, 1970, a man named Reg Williams phoned police in Milford, New Zealand and reported his twenty-five-year-old fiancée, Jennifer Mary Beard, missing. Jennifer, a schoolteacher from Wales, had been hitchhiking down the west coast of New Zealand, and she and Reg had been planning to meet for a vacation on the South Island, … More Jennifer Beard

In spring of 1969, a thirteen-year-old girl in Norfolk, England would go missing in the middle of the afternoon, and while her body was never found, her probable murder has been linked to two of the UK’s most diabolical serial killers. On April 8th, April Fabb was riding her bicycle from her home in Metton … More April Fabb

Thirty-eight-year-old Edwin T. Pratt was a prominent figure in the black community in Seattle. He had been born in Miami, and had had a distinguished career as an activist for the Urban League in various cities before settling in the Seattle area in 1956 and eventually becoming the Executive Director of the Urban League chapter … More Edwin T. Pratt

It was the evening of Sunday, January 21st, 1962. The Maps family—thirty-nine-year-old artist Edward, his twenty-two-year-old wife Christine, and the couple’s four-month-old daughter Julie Louise—had been visiting with their neighbors since about eight-thirty p.m., eating an apple pie they had brought and having a pleasant chat. They left at a little past nine p.m. so … More The Maps Family Murder

The day before Valentine’s Day of 1965 was a Saturday, and eleven-year-old Mae Rubenstein was alone in her home on South Third Avenue in Highland Park, New Jersey. Her father and brother were both at work, and her mother Anne had gone to the grocery store to pick up a few things. At some point … More Anne & Mae Rubenstein

Fifty-six-year-old van driver Arthur Cope was last seen by coworkers on the afternoon of Wednesday, October 7th, 1964. Presumably, after leaving work that day, he returned to his home, which was in a trailer at the Radcliffe-on-Trent Caravan Park on Wharf Lane in Nottingham, England. Two days later, police discovered Arthur’s body in his residence. … More Arthur Cope

Thirty-seven-year-old Clifton Walker, affectionately nicknamed “Man” by his family, was a veteran of the Korean War, though he had been honorably discharged from the Army after a leg injury. He and his wife Ruby had five children, and lived on their own land in Woodville, Mississippi. In 1964, Clifton was working as a laborer at … More Clifton Walker

Only a few days before 1963 came to a close, a pregnant woman in Canada would apparently wander out into the snow and meet her doom shortly thereafter, at the hands of an unknown assailant. Twenty-year-old Margaret Sheeler lived with her husband Philip in a townhouse in London, Ontario. She had gotten pregnant the previous … More Margaret Sheeler

Twenty-year-old Tim McKillop, a lineman for Mountain Bell Telephone, was driving to Scottsdale, Arizona on May 23rd, 1962 to visit his girlfriend Joyce Sterrenberg, also twenty years old and employed at Mountain Bell as an operator. The couple had recently announced their engagement, and planned to marry on April 1st of the following year. Joyce … More Tim McKillop & Joyce Sterrenberg