On June 20th, 1979, a stonemason was walking alongside a river in Perry County, Pennsylvania when he happened upon the skeletonized remains of a human being. She was clad in a tan jacket, white shirt, blue tank top, blue knitted wool slacks, green and white socks, and white boots with silver buckles. She was also … More Perry County Jane Doe
Nineteen-year-old Theresa Allore was a college student at Champlain College Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada, and lived in a dorm about fifteen minutes away, in Compton. She was last seen alive on campus on November 3rd, 1978, but subsequently disappeared. For five long months, her family and the police could find no trace of her, but then, … More Theresa Allore
On May 24th, 1970, sixteen-year-old Claire Gagnon was spending time out and about near her house in Dieppe, New Brunswick, Canada. She was seen alive by witnesses between two and three p.m., but afterward, her whereabouts were unknown. Her parents became concerned when the teenager didn’t come home for dinner at five o’clock as she … More Claire Gagnon
At a little after six a.m. on the morning of August 9th, 1976, trucker Martin Durant noticed the fully-clothed dead bodies of a man and woman sprawled alongside a remote unpaved track between Interstate 95 and Lynches River Road in South Carolina. Each victim had been shot three times with a .357 caliber revolver: once … More Pamela Buckley and James Freund: Sumter County Does
On the morning of September 12th, 1976, a body was discovered near the back gate of a cemetery off Dogwood Road in Woodlawn, Maryland. The victim was a young woman between the ages of fifteen and thirty, who had been beaten, savagely raped, and then strangled to death. Police determined that she had been killed … More Margaret Fetterolf: Woodlawn Jane Doe
In the summer of 1976, a forty-six-year-old hotel manager in Australia would check into a fancy hotel and never check out. Rex Keen lived in Bowen on the coast of Queensland, but on August 9th, 1976, he traveled to Brisbane to attend the Queensland Royal Show, which he did every year. Another thing he did … More Rex Keen
It was July 10th, 1976, and twenty-year-old Debra Bennett had just been evicted from her apartment in Madison, Wisconsin. She had only been living there for about seven months, having moved from her native Ridgeway, but apparently she had failed to come up with the rent, and neighbors saw her packing up her things and … More Debra Bennett
Shirley Finn was, in 1975, a notorious figure in Perth, Western Australia. Though she had come from a respectable middle class family and seemingly had a bright future ahead of her, an ill-advised sexual encounter with an older boy at the age of fourteen saw her spirited off to a strict Catholic reform school, where … More Shirley Finn
Twenty-two-year-old Judy Lord lived in an apartment in Concord, New Hampshire with her seventeen-month-old son. On the evening of May 19th, 1975, Judy was in the crowd that had gathered to watch a volleyball game taking place in the common area of her apartment complex. She reportedly returned to her home at approximately ten-thirty p.m. … More Judy Lord
In the spring of 1971, the English coastal city of Bournemouth would play host to a crime that bore many similarities to the so-called Coronation Street Murder of Annie Walker from 1969. On May 1st, 1971, seventy-three-year-old Rose Lifely was found dead in the front room of her home on Northcote Road in Bournemouth, where … More Rose Lifely
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