In the winter of 1995, a little girl in Ohio would vanish while walking to school. She would not be found until two months into the following year. Thirteen-year-old Barbara Barnes was a quiet, conscientious child who volunteered at the Salvation Army and was a favorite of her teachers at Harding Middle School in Steubenville, … More Barbara Barnes
On the very last day of 1998, on the South Island of New Zealand, a young woman would disappear while out walking her dog. Her body would not be found until weeks into the new year. Fifteen-year-old Kirsty Bentley lived in the town of Ashburton with her parents, Jill and Sidney, and her older brother … More Kirsty Bentley
In early February of 1990, in central Florida, a young woman was likely abducted from the store where she was working. The victim’s remains were never found, and it is uncertain whether the disappearance is related to several other convenience store clerk murders occurring throughout central Florida at the time. Twenty-six-year-old Deborah Poe had just … More Deborah Poe
Thirty-three-year-old Dr. Michael Meenaghan, nicknamed Spike by his friends, was originally from Glasgow, but had been living in Oxford for quite some time. He was, in fact, a lecturer and research scientist at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University; molecular biology was his area of expertise. At about four-thirty p.m. on … More Dr. Michael Meenaghan
It was the early morning of Monday, June 20th, 1994. Twenty-two-year-old David Bain, a student at Otago University in Dunedin who had been studying classical music and singing, set out on his part-time paper route, ostensibly leaving the rest of his family sleeping at home. According to his later account, David arrived back at the … More The Bain Family
Thirty-one-year-old cafeteria worker Tracey Mertens had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with her boyfriend Joey Kavanaugh since both were teenagers. They had two children together, Daniel and Kelly, but Joey, it seemed, was not the most responsible father; he was an admitted drug addict, and often borrowed money from some unsavory characters in order … More Tracey Mertens
At six-thirty a.m. on the morning of January 21st, 1998, an alarm clock went off in the bedroom of twelve-year-old Stephanie Crowe, who lived in Escondido with her family. After several minutes of the clock buzzing loudly throughout the house, the girl’s grandmother went to Stephanie’s room to see why she wasn’t up yet. Horrifyingly, … More Stephanie Crowe
The summer of 1971 would be notable for the first disappearance of a young girl near the twenty-five-acre area of south Texas bordered by League City and the Calder Oil Field. From 1971 all the way into the mid-2000s, this desolate stretch of land would serve as the final resting place for the murdered bodies … More The Texas Killing Fields
In early November of 1997, in a suburb of Victoria, Australia, a woman would be coldly gunned down in her driveway in the middle of the afternoon, in a shocking crime that is now suspected to have been a case of mistaken identity. It was just after three-thirty p.m. on Thursday, November 6th, when thirty-four-year-old … More Jane Thurgood-Dove
Twenty-eight-year-old Joyce Chiang was the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, and worked as a lawyer for what was then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS. On the evening of January 9th, 1999, Joyce had been out to dinner and a movie with friends, and one of them had offered to give her a ride … More Joyce Chiang
Crime Immemorial 