Dr. Sebastian Russo was in many ways a classic, old-fashioned family doctor of the sort that barely exists anymore. Born and educated in Italy, the physician emigrated to the United States in the 1950s and became certified as a doctor in America. He set up an office on Hartford Road in Northeast Baltimore, Maryland, in … More Dr. Sebastian Russo
On March 10th, 1985, a young woman would be found dead on a roadside in the American Southwest. A group of three rabbit hunters out patrolling an area off County Road E73 about twenty miles from Hatch, New Mexico stumbled upon the partial skeletal remains of a human being, scattered beneath a layer of thin … More Dorothy Harrison: Doña Ana County Jane Doe
Just before Christmas of 1982, in Ohio, two murders would take place within a week of one another, with the bodies discovered in very close proximity. To this day, neither case has been resolved, and it is unknown whether the two crimes are related, though it seems quite likely. On Wednesday, December 15th, fourteen-year-old Sonya … More Sonya Green and Annette Lawrence
On August 24th of 1982, a pair of hikers out looking for mushrooms in Gambrills State Park in Frederick, Maryland chanced across a steamer trunk, which was partially covered with leaves and sticks, but did not appear to have been deliberately concealed. What the hikers found inside the trunk sent them hightailing it out of … More The Cheerleader in the Trunk
On the morning of March 13th, 1987, in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio called Bedford, a twenty-four-year-old mother of two was found viciously stabbed to death inside her own apartment. Analia Zavodny was the night manager of the Alamo Apartments on Broadway Avenue. Three years after she was slain, her boyfriend was put on trial … More Analia Zavodny
It was October 27th, 1985, and a father and son walking across a piece of land off State Highway 51 just south of Springtown, Texas spotted a smattering of human bones in the dirt. Forensic examination determined that the partial skeleton belonged to a white male between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one years old, … More Billy Fiegener: Parker County John Doe
As 1981 was drawing to a close, a young girl in Canada would disappear while trying to thumb a lift. Fourteen-year-old Dana Bradley had been hanging out at a friend’s house in St. John’s, Newfoundland on December 14th, but at around five p.m., decided she had better start heading toward home, as her mother was … More Dana Bradley
In September of 1988, there would be a brutal double murder in New York that would result in a controversial familial conviction and later acquittal. Seymour and Arlene Tankleff lived in the well-heeled village of Belle Terre, on the North Shore of Long Island. Seymour was an insurance broker, and he and his wife often … More Seymour and Arlene Tankleff
Keith and Elaine Dardeen had bought a mobile home in Ina in 1986, so Keith could be closer to his job as treatment plant operator at the Rend Lake Water Conservancy District facility there. Elaine worked at an office supply store in town. The couple had a two-year-old son named Peter, and in November of … More The Dardeen Family Murders
In the summer of 1986, a remarkable Dutch man would mysteriously turn up murdered in his own apartment, in a crime that has sadly been all but forgotten. Willem “Wim” Klein was born in Amsterdam in 1912, and his physician father initially attempted to push him into the same line of work. Willem did obtain … More Willem Klein
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