At around nine p.m. on the night of November 2nd, 1990, seventy-three-year-old grandmother Janie Perrin was seen by neighbors walking back to her flat on Tarcoon Street in the town of Bourke, in New South Wales, Australia. The elderly woman lived alone. At some point after this sighting, Janie was attacked in her home by … More Janie Perrin

In England, and more specifically in the sleepy town of Norwich, a teenaged sex worker was allegedly seen getting into a car on Rouen Road at approximately one-fifteen a.m. on the morning of November 20th, 1992. A little more than two hours later, she would be dead. A truck driver passing through the area at … More Natalie Pearman

At around six-thirty a.m. on the morning of September 11th, 1991, passersby strolling through Green Meadows Park in Los Angeles stumbled across the dead body of a young white or Hispanic woman. The victim—eventually dubbed Los Angeles County Jane Doe—was between fifteen and twenty years old, stood approximately five-foot-two, and weighed around one-hundred-seventy pounds. She … More Los Angeles County Jane Doe

It was Tuesday, March 26th, 1991 in Daegu, South Korea, and due to local elections, schools and many workplaces were closed for the day. Six young boys, who were all students at Seongseo Elementary School—nine-year-old Kim Jong-sik, ten-year-old Park Chan-in, ten-year-old Kim Tae-ryong, eleven-year-old Kim Yeong-gyu, twelve-year-old Jo Ho-yeon, and thirteen-year-old U Cheol-won—decided to take … More The Frog Boys

The first week of June of 1991 would see the appalling slaughter of a successful businesswoman in broad daylight in a parking lot in England. Ruth Penelope Bell, better known to family and friends as Penny, was a forty-three-year-old woman who ran a thriving employment agency called Coverstaff Ltd., which placed candidates in catering positions. … More Penny Bell

Not long after the end of the 1980s and the dawn of a new decade, an elderly woman looking forward to a sunny Florida retirement would instead turn up murdered in her own home. Sixty-seven-year-old Eileen Jones had only moved to Gainesville, in north Florida, in 1989. She had always been something of a loner, … More Eileen Jones

In the summer of 1990, in France, a gay pastor would be spirited away by supposed police officers and later be found dead, possibly the victim of a nefarious conspiracy. Joseph Doucé had been born to a Catholic family in Belgium, but in later years converted to the Baptist faith, studied to become a pastor, … More Joseph Doucé

Twenty-nine-year-old Lynne Trenholm lived in the town of Failsworth, in Greater Manchester. Though she had always told her family that she worked as a receptionist, she was actually a sex worker, using the pseudonyms Blondie and Marilyn, and plying her trade out of a brothel-slash-massage-parlor known as Pinky’s, in Boughton. On the morning of Sunday, … More Lynne Trenholm