It was the day after Thanksgiving of 1987, and seven-year-old Alexander Harris of Mountain View, California had been spending the holiday in Las Vegas, Nevada with his mother Roxanne, and his grandparents. On Friday, November 27th, the family was driving back home but decided to stop at the popular Whiskey Pete’s Casino in Primm, near … More Alexander Harris

Forty-four-year-old Ian Murray Erskine worked as a senior economist at the Bank of England and lived at Norland Square in Notting Hill, West London. He was described by his neighbors as very pleasant and quiet; he was also a wine connoisseur and a regular attendant at the Royal Opera House in Covent Garden. Additionally, Ian … More Ian Murray Erskine

Thirty-one-year-old Tanya Moore (born Jonathan Streater) was a native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a transgender woman who was described as “clean cut” by her family, but had several arrests for prostitution going back thirteen years. Her friend, twenty-seven-year-old Tina Rodriguez (born Faustino Arroyo), also transgender, was originally from Puerto Rico but had grown up in Camden, … More Tanya Moore and Tina Rodriguez

On the evening of Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 1983, eleven-year-old Tracey Waters waved goodbye to her mother and headed out from her home in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, near Glasgow, to go to a nearby youth club. It was the last time she was seen alive. When her daughter didn’t return, Tracey’s mother Margaret walked around … More Tracey Waters

Nineteen-year-old Jennifer Ronaldson was a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London, England, a quiet and devoted young woman with seemingly no enemies in the world. In late October of 1980, Jennifer was having a cup of tea with her friends in the hospital cafeteria just after her shift ended at two in the afternoon. She … More Jennifer Ronaldson

Over a few months in the latter half of 1985, at least four people were killed in a bizarre series of crimes known either as the Mineral, Washington Murders, or the Tube Sock Killings. Despite a thorough investigation and a great deal of public attention, including being featured on Unsolved Mysteries in 1989, the homicides … More The Mineral, Washington Murders

In November of 1981, sixteen-year-old Pamela Hastie was walking home from school in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. As she cut through Rannoch Woods not far from her home, she was attacked by an unknown assailant, who hit her over the head with a piece of wood, dragged her into the bushes, raped her, then strangled her … More Pamela Hastie

On November 12th, 1989, which was Remembrance Sunday in the UK, firefighters responded to a blaze at a holiday cottage in Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire, in southwest England. Inside, they discovered the remains of forty-three-year-old Carmel Gamble. But it soon became clear that the dead woman had not been killed by the fire, but by savage … More Carmel Gamble

Thirty-two-year-old mother of two Jeanette Kempton, better known as simply Jean, was last seen alive leaving the Loughborough Hotel in Brixton, south London, England, on February 2nd, 1989. For two long weeks after this sighting, her whereabouts were unknown. Then, on February 18th, two hunters came across her decomposed remains lying in a ditch on … More Jeanette Kempton

It was February 5th, 1980, and thirteen-year-old Tracy Main had stayed home sick from school. Both her parents went off to work as usual. The family lived in a flat in a tower block in the Gorbals, an area of Glasgow, Scotland. When Tracy’s mother came home from work, she made a horrifying discovery: her … More Tracy Main