In the autumn of 1969, British Columbia, Canada would see the first occurrence in a more than fifty-year series of murders and disappearances of largely Aboriginal women from particular stretches of Highways 16, 97, and 5, an area which over the ensuing decades would come to be known by the eerily evocative name of the … More The Highway of Tears Murders
As June of 1978 neared its end in Scottsdale, Arizona, a crime occurred which still holds a fascination for the public more than forty years later, not only because of the violence of the killing and the sordid details which emerged in its wake, but also because of the immensely famous victim. Boyishly handsome actor … More Bob Crane
In the late spring of 1970, in Norman, Oklahoma, a double homicide with decidedly Zodiac-like characteristics would take place on a remote lover’s lane. It was the evening of Saturday, May 9th, 1970, and twenty-one-year-old David Sloan had taken his nineteen-year-old girlfriend Sheryl Lynn Benham to a party at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity house … More Sheryl Lynn Benham & David Sloan: The Ten Mile Flat Murder
A few days before Christmas of 1970, an Iowa woman would turn up dead in circumstances that involved a nasty divorce and an illicit affair. Thirty-seven-year-old Mary Bernice Lange worked as a clerk at the Burlington Municipal Court and was also the mother to three children aged eleven, fourteen, and eighteen. In 1970, Mary and … More Mary Bernice Lange
It was the early summer of 1970. Harvey and Jeanette Crewe lived on a modest farm in Pukekawa, a town about forty miles south of Auckland, New Zealand. Harvey, who was twenty-eight, and Jeannette, who was thirty, had an eighteen-month-old daughter named Rochelle. The previous few months had apparently been difficult for the Crewes, as … More Harvey & Jeannette Crewe
On July 9th, 1970, in Lansing, Michigan, sixteen-year-old Laurie Murninghan was working her part-time job at Gallaghers Gift and Antiques Shop when an armed assailant stormed through the front door demanding money. The robber first grabbed at store owner Mrs. Gallagher, hitting her in the head with his pistol. The impact caused the firearm to … More Laurie Murninghan
Recent high school graduate Paula Jean Oberbroeckling was a beautiful, blonde eighteen-year-old with aspirations to become a model. In the summer of 1970, she was working part-time as a sales clerk at Younker’s Department Store, while also tutoring developmentally disabled children in her spare time. She and her roommate Debbie Kellogg shared a small house … More Paula Jean Oberbroeckling
Late September of 1970 would feature the murder of a prominent rancher in Oklahoma, a case that remains one of the most infamous unsolved homicides in the state’s history. Thirty-two-year-old E.C. Mullendore III was living the high life on the 130,000-acre Cross Bell Ranch in Osage County, Oklahoma. E.C. had inherited the massive property from … More E.C. Mullendore III
The winter of 1972 would see the bizarre slaughter of an entire family that took place during a raging snowstorm and was almost definitely not what it first appeared. It was February 3rd, and fifty-one-year-old Bryce Durham was attending a Rotary meeting in Boone, North Carolina. The winter weather had been so harsh that day … More The Durham Family
Fifteen-year-old Eric Doratio had been having problems both at home and at school. He was frequently truant, and was thought to be involved with drugs. The last time his mother saw him was on Thanksgiving, November 24th, but later on that same day, Eric was reportedly seen running away from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania teen shelter. … More Eric Doratio
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