Fifty-two-year-old James Keltie was a manager at the Muirton House Hotel in Blairgowrie, Perth and Kinross, Scotland. His wife Agnes was a policewoman at Fife Constabulary, and the couple had three children, aged five, nine, and sixteen. On January 11th, 1971, a taxi driver named Dave Turpie arrived at the hotel at around eight a.m. … More James Keltie

Forty-eight-year-old Andre Mizelas was a royal hairdresser in London, England, a wealthy part-owner of twenty salons in the fashionable Andre Bernard chain. He didn’t seem to have an enemy in the world. But on November 9th, 1970, a cyclist found him slumped over the steering wheel of his Triumph TR5 sports car in Hyde Park. … More Andre Mizelas

Seventy-year-old Isaac Hughes and fifty-year-old Arthur Waite were good friends and spent a great deal of time drinking in their local pub, the Rifleman’s Arms, in the small mining town of Blaenavon, Torfaen, Wales. The two men were engaged in their favorite pastime on Easter Monday, which fell on April 3rd of 1972. They drank … More Isaac Hughes & Arthur Waite

It was the start of Labor Day weekend: Friday, August 30th, 1974. The Cowden family of White City, Oregon—consisting of twenty-eight-year-old Richard, twenty-two-year-old Belinda, five-year-old David, and five-month-old Melissa, along with the family’s Basset Hound, Droopy—decided to go camping near Carberry Creek in Copper, Oregon, a spot they’d camped at many times before. The Cowdens … More The Cowden Family

Twenty-nine-year-old Mary Ann Plett was a real estate agent at Graham Realty Ltd. in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, and was married with two children. On September 15th, 1971, she took a client out to look at acreage outside of Edmonton. The man was in his forties, had a low, rough voice, and gave his name as … More Mary Ann Plett

Thirty-seven-year-old Kay O’Connor worked as a shorthand typist and lived with her husband Tony on Wickham Road, Colchester, England. On March 1st, 1974, she was off work for the day and had gone shopping on nearby Butt Road. Afterward, she stopped by to visit her mother, who lived two doors down from her, and then … More Kay O’Connor

Twenty-four-year-old Sally Shepherd worked as a restaurant manager at the Young Vic Theatre in London, and lived on Staffordshire Street in Peckham, near the bus depot. On the night of November 30th, 1979, she spent some time with friends in Essex, then picked up some Indian takeout and boarded a bus for home. In the … More Sally Shepherd

Thirty-four-year-old mother of two Ann Law was in the process of divorcing her husband Gilbert in 1973, although the pair were still living together in their home in West Denton, Newcastle upon Tyne, England. However, on March 24th, Ann mysteriously disappeared. Some time after she went missing, police questioned Gilbert concerning her whereabouts, but he … More Ann Law

Seventeen-year-old Lison Blais was out with friends at le Bar Chez Philippe in Montréal, Quebec, Canada, on the night of Saturday, June 3rd, 1978. According to witnesses, she left the bar at about three-twenty-five a.m. on June 4th and presumably headed toward home. Tragically, a horrific fate befell her before she could get there. The … More Lison Blais

Twenty-five-year-old Alison Morris was a post-graduate student who had just been offered her choice of two jobs as a university lecturer: one of the jobs was in Salford, Manchester, England, and the other was in Liverpool. Alison herself lived in Essex with her mother and father, and had just recently returned from a holiday in … More Alison Morris