In spring of 1986, the ghastly murder of an elderly widow would lead to the shocking conviction of an innocent man, a breakdown of the justice system that would take nearly a decade to be corrected. Seventy-nine-year-old Pauline Martz lived alone in the small town of Aurora, Missouri. On April 13th, firefighters were called to … More Pauline Martz
It was October 3rd, 1984, and nine-year-old Christine Jessop hopped off the school bus at around three-thirty p.m. Neither her parents nor her brother Kenney was home; her father was still at work, and her mother had taken Kenney to the dentist. They expected to be home at four, and Christine’s mother had told the … More Christine Jessop
Only a few days before Halloween of 1989, a mysterious phone call arrived at the home of the Mihaljevic family in Bay Village, Ohio, just outside of Cleveland. Ten-year-old Amy Mihaljevic answered the phone, and presumably knew the man at the other end of the line. This unidentified individual told Amy to meet him at … More Amy Mihaljevic
It was the morning of Sunday, September 25th, 1988, and a man was driving along Highway 474 in Lake County east of Orlando, searching for a perfect cypress tree to cut down and make furniture out of. Spotting a promising specimen, the man pulled over, but then began to notice a terrible smell wafting out … More Julie Doe
On Independence Day of 1988, a pair of teenagers rekindling their romance would disappear from a Texas lakeshore and be found dead four months later. Eighteen-year-old Sally McNelly and sixteen-year-old Shane Stewart had met in high school and had been dating off and on for a year; they had, in fact, just moved in together … More Sally McNelly and Shane Stewart
Eighteen-year-old Inga Maria Hauser was originally from Munich, Germany, a free-spirited, artistic young woman with a passion for travel. Toward the end of March 1988, her family had dropped her off at the train station, and she had journeyed through Holland before taking a ferry to Harwich, England and then on to London. She had … More Inga Maria Hauser
In March of 1988, in northern India, a crime took place in broad daylight on a crowded street and claimed the lives of four people, including one of the most famous singer-songwriters to ever emerge from Punjab. It was around two p.m. on the afternoon of March 8th, 1988, and Amar Singh Chamkila, his wife … More Amar Singh Chamkila and Amarjot Kaur
On Valentine’s Day of 1988, authorities were summoned to a dumpster located near the intersection of Kaiser Road and Old Perkins Road in Millen, Georgia. Three people had noticed a foul stench coming from inside the dumpster, and when police investigated, they soon found the source of the odor: inside was a large, nylon duffel … More Jenkins County Jane Doe
It was a little past nine p.m. on the night of November 1st, 1980, when a truck driver making his way past the Sam Houston National Forest near Huntsville, Texas saw the nude body of a young girl lying about six yards off the shoulder of Interstate Highway 45. The victim was a white female … More Sherri Ann Jarvis
Autumn of 1980 began to fall, and out in the American West, two brothers were driving along a dirt road in Henderson, Nevada. It was about nine-thirty p.m. on the evening of Sunday, October 5th. Suddenly, one of the brothers, off-duty police officer John Williams, spotted something strange lying in the scrub off State Road … More Tammy Terrell
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