Twenty-two-year-old Judy Lord lived in an apartment in Concord, New Hampshire with her seventeen-month-old son. On the evening of May 19th, 1975, Judy was in the crowd that had gathered to watch a volleyball game taking place in the common area of her apartment complex. She reportedly returned to her home at approximately ten-thirty p.m. … More Judy Lord

In the spring of 1971, the English coastal city of Bournemouth would play host to a crime that bore many similarities to the so-called Coronation Street Murder of Annie Walker from 1969. On May 1st, 1971, seventy-three-year-old Rose Lifely was found dead in the front room of her home on Northcote Road in Bournemouth, where … More Rose Lifely

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