London, Ontario, lies in the southwestern portion of the province, a little over 100 miles from Toronto. It’s the definition of an average city, in regards to demographics, so much so that it’s often used as a test market for new products being introduced into Canada. But from approximately 1959 through 1984, London, Ontario saw … More Murder City: London, Ontario, Canada

It was March 20th, 1978 and twelve-year-old Denise McGregor, along with her sister Sharon, were heading out from their home in Pascoe Vale, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, to pick up some takeout for the family’s dinner. The girls’ mother Carmel was a nurse who often worked the night shift, so the siblings—including Denise, Sharon, … More Denise McGregor

In mid-summer of 1978, a couple would be found murdered some distance apart, and would remain unidentified for nearly forty years. Though they have recently had their names restored, their killer is still unknown. It was June 17th, and a farmer was driving a tractor along an access road near Interstate 55 in Blytheville, Arkansas … More Jimmy Hendricks & Kim Mills

It was Monday, April 30th, 1979, and Pacific Power & Light employee Bob Gilbert was performing his regular daily task of checking the dam that formed Mirror Lake from the surrounding Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon. On this particular day, though, he came across something as unexpected as it was grisly: a human thigh. Police … More Mary Jo Templeton

In a small parish called Cockley Cley in the English county of Norfolk, a nineteen-year-old farm worker named Andrew Head was crossing a field when he noticed something covered with a large sheet of white plastic, lying in the overgrown grass. It was August 27th, 1974. Andrew lifted up the corner of the plastic to … More The Norfolk Headless Body

In the spring of 1972, in Australia, a man would be murdered by a gang of men suspected to have been police officers, and his death would spearhead a significant leap forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the country. Forty-one-year-old Dr. George Duncan had moved to Adelaide, South Australia on March 25th, 1972. Prior to that, … More Dr. George Duncan

In the spring of 1974, in the American Midwest, a young woman would go missing from an adult bookstore and then turn up dead two days later. Twenty-four-year-old Patricia Webb was a complicated individual. Described by friends and family as beautiful, popular, compassionate, and loving, she was also something of a restless spirit. She had … More Patricia Webb

It was late on the afternoon of Saturday, September 28th, 1974, and seven-year-old Patty Lee Kuzara had been at the home of her babysitter, located in a subdivision in Poway, a suburb about twenty miles from San Diego. At around dusk, with the permission of her mother, she decided to walk the two-and-a-half miles back … More Patty Lee Kuzara

January 18th, 1974 was a Friday, and twenty-year-old Glenis Carruthers had driven from her home in Bedford down to Clifton, in Bristol, England, to attend the twenty-first birthday party of her friend, Sandra Hardyman. The party seemed to be in full swing by around ten o’clock, with more than three dozen people present in the … More Glenis Carruthers