Chinese immigrants Shum and Toki Sang were in many ways living an American dream. In early 1971, they owned two successful restaurants in New Jersey, and lived in a pleasant two-story home on North Beverwyck Road, the first floor of which they rented out to about a dozen of their employees. On the evening of … More Shum & Toki Sang

In Port Huron, Michigan, police responded to a report of a car accident that had occurred at around two a.m. on the morning of October 8th, 1970. When officers arrived on the scene, however, they were met instead with a bizarre murder. There was indeed a vehicle involved, but it had actually backed into the … More Donald Simons

At around quarter to seven p.m. on Friday, May 15th, 1970, eighteen-year-old Olive Walker left her home on the outskirts of Rotorua, New Zealand to walk to her sister Mary’s house a short distance away. She had agreed to baby-sit Mary’s children that evening. At about seven-fifty p.m., Olive was spotted near the Odeon Theatre … More Olive Walker

September 10th, 1971 was a Friday, and in Farmington, Maine, fifteen-year-old Judith E. Hand left Mount Blue Junior High School in the afternoon, and proceeded to walk to a relative’s house not far away for a baby-sitting job. Judith, a shy, conscientious young girl, came from a large family who had been financially struggling since … More Judith Hand

In the winter of 1971, three hunters in Galloway Township, New Jersey would stumble across a murdered young woman whose identity is still unknown. The skeleton, found on December 6th in the woods off the Garden State Parkway, appeared to be that of a petite, auburn-haired female between the ages of twelve and eighteen years … More Atlantic County Jane Doe

It was June 13th, 1972, and a fourteen-year-old boy taking his bike to a gas station to put air in the tires happened across a gruesome scene: a dead, naked little boy, floating in Massey Creek near Lorton, Virginia. The child was African-American, somewhere between three and six years old, and appeared to have been … More Fairfax County John Doe

Twenty-two-year-old Amala Ruth De Vere Whelan had only moved into her new place in Maida Vale, West London, three weeks before. Prior to that, she had lived and worked in Camden, at the Bar Lotus on Regents Park Road. She was a popular, socially outgoing young woman, involved in the local art scene and an … More Amala Whelan

On the day before Thanksgiving in the town of South Strabane, Pennsylvania, twenty-one-year-old Susan Rush left her job at the Murphy’s department store located at the Washington Mall and headed out toward her car. It was a little past six p.m., and presumably, Susan was looking forward to spending the holiday with her family. She … More Susan Rush

Late November of 1976 would see the first in a possibly related series of murders taking place in Washington County, Pennsylvania. Over the course of the ensuing seven months, at least six young women would turn up dead in the area, and police are still baffled as to whether the crimes are connected, though recent … More Barbara Jean Lewis

At a little past ten p.m. on the evening of May 18th, 1977, eighteen-year-old Brenda Lee Ritter left the residence of her boyfriend Larry Bonazza and began the short drive back to her own home in North Strabane. She never made it there, and the following morning, her vehicle was found abandoned in South Strabane. … More Brenda Lee Ritter