At around four-thirty a.m. on the morning of April 4th, 1997, police in the area received a report of a serious car crash in the region of Wetterau, Germany; evidently, a black BMW had careened off a country road and slammed into a tree. When authorities arrived at the scene, they found a man dead … More Adem Bozkurt

In North Carolina on July 20th, 1999, a man riding an all-terrain vehicle in the woods near Dunn came across the decomposed body of a young woman who remains unidentified to this day. The victim, discovered beneath an old mattress, was believed to be white or Hispanic, between seventeen and twenty-five years old, standing between … More Sampson County Jane Doe

Seven-year-old Nikki Allan lived in the Wear Garths block of flats in Sunderland, northeast England, with her mother Sharon and her three sisters. On the evening of October 7th, 1992, the whole family was visiting Sharon’s parents, who occupied a residence in the same complex, only a short distance away from the Allan home. At … More Nikki Allan

In the spring of 1991, a chilling abduction in Australia would lead to a renewed push to locate the as-yet-unidentified serial rapist and possible murderer known only as Mr. Cruel. It was the evening of April 13th, and thirteen-year-old Karmein Chan was at her home in the affluent Victorian suburb of Templestowe, babysitting her two … More Karmein Chan

Thirty-year-old Joe Cole was the son of well-known actor Dennis Cole, and was making quite a name for himself in his own right. An actor and writer, Joe also worked as a roadie for Black Flag, the Rollins Band, and Hole, and shared a house in Venice Beach with Black Flag and Rollins Band frontman … More Joe Cole

In 1995 in California, another crime would occur that some have attempted to link with the extremely high-profile murders of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, not to mention the mysterious 1993 slaying of record promoter Brett Cantor. Twenty-six-year-old Michael Nigg was originally from Colorado, but had moved to Los Angeles after graduating from college … More Michael Nigg

About a month before the year of 1995 was out, a woman’s body would be discovered in North Carolina; her identity would not be established until early 2019, and the circumstances surrounding her death still remain a puzzling mystery. It was December 6th, 1995, and the skeletal remains were discovered in a field in Jacksonville, … More Randi Boothe-Wilson

In early February of 1997, a man would be randomly shot on the side of a highway in New York State, and though he was able to describe his killer to police before he died, the case remains unsolved. It was around six p.m. on the evening of Wednesday, February 5th, and forty-seven-year-old Richard Aderson—a … More Richard Aderson

Ali He’Shun Forney, also known as Luscious, was a transgender youth who was originally from North Carolina, but moved with his mother to Brooklyn, New York when he was still quite young. After being rejected by his family when they found out about his sexuality, Ali went to live in a series of foster homes, … More Ali He’Shun Forney

Thirty-eight-year-old Lois Roberts was a vivacious, independent woman, the daughter of a pastor and Aboriginal activist. At the age of twenty-one, Lois had been involved in a devastating car accident that had left her brain-damaged, but with therapy, she had managed to recover enough to resume a relatively normal life, living on her own in … More Lois Roberts