In January of 1976, schoolchildren in New Zealand were enjoying their summer holidays. Thirteen-year-old Tracey Patient was walking with her older sister Debbie, not far from their home in the Auckland suburb of Henderson. The Patient family was English, but had moved to New Zealand not long before, believing that the country was a far … More Tracey Ann Patient
The year of 1975 was nearly over when a young college student was slain in Illinois, in a brutal and senseless attack. Twenty-one-year-old Carol Rofstad was living in Normal, Illinois, attending classes at Illinois State University and working at a nearby retail store during her off hours. It was only a few days before Christmas, … More Carol Rofstad
In early December of 1975, in New Jersey, the shocking massacre of nearly an entire family would leave a community reeling. The Diggs’ were one of the first black families to move into the previously all-white suburb of Teaneck, New Jersey, an upper-middle class enclave housing many erstwhile New Yorkers. Patriarch Wesley Diggs owned four … More The Diggs Family
In the summer of 1971, a young teenager would go missing and later turn up murdered, the first casualty of a short series of possibly related homicides whose victims have come to be known as the Waverly Three. It was Sunday, June 13th, 1971, and fourteen-year-old Valerie Lynn Klossowsky had been spending Sunday having a … More The Waverly Three
It was Friday, March 5th, 1971, and eighteen-year-old Palmer Junior College student Judith Anne Haecker had plans to hang out and have drinks with her friends at her one-room apartment on 15th Street in Davenport, Iowa. Judith had been spending the day with her parents, who lived only a few blocks away, but they gave … More Judith Anne Haecker
In the winter of 1971, in Durham, North Carolina, two young people would go missing in what would prove to be the tragic first chapter of a true Valentine’s Day massacre. Twenty-year-old nursing student Patricia Mann and her boyfriend, nineteen-year-old North Carolina State University student Jesse McBane, were a happy, good-looking couple who had plans … More Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann
On December 20th, 1976, a teenage boy walking near one of the supports of the three-hundred-foot bridge spanning the Lehigh River in White Haven, Pennsylvania, came across a ghastly tableau: two open suitcases with a severed head, a torso, and a dead baby spilling out of them. A third, unopened suitcase lay nearby. When officers … More Evelyn Colon: Beth Doe
In the early days of 1977, a suspected serial killer would begin a strange run of crimes in Atlanta, Georgia. Dubbed the Lover’s Lane Killer, this individual manifested many of the same traits as the Zodiac, as well as the Phantom Killer of Texarkana, attacking random couples parked in cars and shooting them dead. The … More Atlanta Lover’s Lane Murders
On the first day of June 1975, twenty-three-year-old teacher Ellen Choate left her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and set out for Bangor, Maine, where she was supposed to start a new job on June 2nd. At some point along her journey, she vanished without a trace. It would be more than two years before she … More Ellen Choate
On Valentine’s Day of 1978, a young girl was found slain near San Diego, California, having been subjected to brutal torture before her death. To this day, she remains unidentified, and is referred to only as San Diego County Jane Doe. The victim was white, between fourteen and eighteen years old, and stood only about … More San Diego County Jane Doe
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