May 2nd, 1972 dawned in the home of the Palmieri family in Staten Island, New York; it was just a typical day for the family of six, consisting of dad Vincent, mom Annette, and their four children: Patrick, Sal, Angela, and Vincent Jr. Thirty-six-year-old Vincent Palmieri, who worked at a print shop in Manhattan, bid … More Vincent Palmieri
Thirty-seven-year-old Donald Goines had a checkered past, to put it mildly. Born in Detroit, Michigan to middle-class parents who owned a laundry business, Donald became somewhat troubled as a teenager. At the age of fifteen, he falsified his identification and joined the Air Force, eventually going on to fight in the Korean War. While Donald … More Donald Goines
It was about quarter to eight on the morning of Tuesday, March 21st, 1972, and fourteen-year-old Marilyn Wallman was riding her bicycle to the bus stop near her family’s farm in Mackay, Queensland. Her two brothers, Rex and David, were only a few minutes behind her. A little more than half a mile from home, … More Marilyn Wallman
The year of 1972 was barely two days old when a Midwestern war veteran would be shot to death for no apparent reason whatsoever. It was the evening of Saturday, January 1st: New Year’s Day. Fifty-five-year-old Edwin Harry Jacobs, who had served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, was spending some … More Edwin Harry Jacobs
Sixteen-year-old Maria Lena Ybanez had been living a less-than-ideal life in Davenport, Iowa with her foster parents, Kathryn and Bernie Ybanez, who in the summer of 1973 were undergoing a bitter divorce, as well as enduring the loss of Kathryn’s five-year-old niece, who had been hit by a car a short time previously. Kathryn Ybanez … More Maria Lena Ybanez
Twenty-nine-year-old barmaid Gloria Booth had been working at the White Hart pub in Northolt on the night of Saturday, June 12th, 1971. Her shift ended at half past eleven, and she began walking home shortly afterward, a journey she had taken countless times. Early the next morning, a newspaper delivery boy taking a shortcut through … More Gloria Booth
Seventeen-year-old Dorothy Leyden had spent the evening of April 24th, 1971 at the Golden Garter nightclub in south Manchester. She and her friends had been watching a concert by American Motown singer Jimmy Ruffin, and while enjoying herself in the front row, Dorothy had even caught a towel that Ruffin had tossed into the crowd … More Dorothy Leyden
Sixteen-year-old Pamela Conyers was a student at Glen Burnie High School in Maryland. At a little past eight p.m. on the evening of Friday, October 16th, Pamela had just returned home from a pep rally, and planned to spend the hours before bedtime working on the outfit she was going to wear to the school … More Pamela Conyers
Susan Long, an insurance clerk at Norwich Union in England, actually lived in the market town of Aylsham, but often traveled by bus to Norwich for work and to visit her boyfriend, who lived there. After spending a pleasant evening at the Gala Dance Hall on March 10th, 1970, Susan bid her boyfriend goodbye and … More Susan Long
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
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