On July 21st, 1999, two individuals happened upon the remains in a field not far from the town of Raymond in Racine County, Wisconsin. The victim would thus be christened Racine County Jane Doe, or more informally as Crystal Rae. The victim in this case appeared to have suffered from neglect, malnourishment, and abuse for … More Peggy Johnson, formerly Racine County Jane Doe
A few days after Christmas of 1999, an American journalist would be mysteriously slain in Guatemala, one of thirty-seven journalists murdered that year, though the motives behind his killing are still unclear. Forty-one-year-old Larry Dale Lee was originally from Rockford, Illinois, but spent most of his formative years in the small town of Doniphan, Missouri. … More Larry Dale Lee
Twenty-four-year-old Rachael Johnson lived in Tallmadge, Ohio with her three-year-old daughter Katelin. On the evening of Friday, March 29th, 1991, Rachael had hired a babysitter and went out on the town with her best friend. The two women were seen leaving the El Cid bar at about two-thirty a.m. on the morning of Saturday, March … More Rachael Johnson
On September 19th, 1990, an inmate work crew picking up garbage alongside Interstate 40 in Hillsborough, North Carolina discovered the decomposed body of a young woman down an embankment just off the highway. The victim, eventually dubbed Hillsborough Jane Doe or “Hope,” was white, aged between fourteen and twenty-five, standing around five-foot-four and weighing approximately … More Hillsborough Jane Doe
It was July 22nd, 1990, and some teenagers were exploring an area of Monroe Township, Pennsylvania, about three miles south of Interstate 80. They had just passed under a small railroad trestle when they noticed what they initially thought was a dead deer, lying in a shallow stream. But as they grew closer, they realized … More Penny Doe
Leonard Gomm, a seventy-five-year-old husband, and a father of three grown daughters, had lived in the Oxford area of England for most of his life, and after retiring from the Cowley motor works some time before, had begun driving a taxi to earn some extra money and get him out of the house. By all … More Leonard Gomm
As the spring of 1990 began heading into summer, a Native American woman in the Midwestern United States would leave a party with two men and disappear shortly thereafter, only to turn up dead in late autumn of the same year. Twenty-nine-year-old mother of two Susan “Suzy” Poupart had been spending the evening of Saturday, … More Susan Poupart
It was a little past six p.m. on the evening of Tuesday, January 4th, 1994. Eleven-year-old Kim Heyrman and her eight-year-old brother Ken left their home in Antwerp, Belgium, and went to visit their friends David and Natacha Musik. David was not at home, though, having earlier traveled to the nearby town of Merksem to … More Kim and Ken Heyrman
Twenty-three-year-old Melanie Carpenter lived in her native Vancouver with her boyfriend, and managed a tanning salon called Island Tan in the suburb of Surrey. On the afternoon of January 6th, 1995, in fact, she was working at the salon alone, and had received several phone calls, purportedly from a man representing a Japanese investment firm … More Melanie Carpenter
In the autumn of 1969, British Columbia, Canada would see the first occurrence in a more than fifty-year series of murders and disappearances of largely Aboriginal women from particular stretches of Highways 16, 97, and 5, an area which over the ensuing decades would come to be known by the eerily evocative name of the … More The Highway of Tears Murders
Crime Immemorial 