In early August of 1993, a little girl visiting her grandmother in Massachusetts would vanish off a neighborhood street, only to turn up dead more than two months later. Ten-year-old Holly Piirainen lived with her family in Grafton, Massachusetts, but on August 5th, she, her father, and her two younger brothers were staying at their … More Holly Piirainen & Molly Bish
It was about quarter to eleven on the morning of Saturday, March 28th, 1987. Sixty-six-year-old Helen Fleet had bundled her two dogs, Bilbow and Cindy, into her blue Datsun and was driving out to Worlebury Woods near her home in Weston-super-Mare, in North Somerset, England, to take her beloved pets for a walk. She was … More Helen Fleet, Kate Bushell, Lyn Bryant
Early in the spring of 1998, a priest would be slaughtered in cold blood for reasons which are still unclear, though everything from cult sacrifice to a crime of passion to a vast conspiracy has been put forward in the years since. Sixty-seven-year-old Father Alfred Kunz was a traditionalist, Roman Catholic priest who served at … More Father Alfred Kunz
Seventeen-year-old Raonaid Murray lived in Glenageary, South Dublin, Ireland with her parents and two older siblings. She had done well in school, and was planning to go on to University College Dublin, possibly to become a writer. In the meantime, she was working part-time at a ladies’ fashion boutique in the coastal town of Dún … More Raonaid Murray
Rikki Neave was six years old, and already hardened beyond his tender age. His mother Ruth, who had been the victim of abuse and neglect herself as a child and whose own parents had died in a bizarre suicide pact, was tragically repeating the cycle. She was a known amphetamine addict, and no stranger to … More Rikki Neave
On the day after Christmas of 1996, a crime occurred that would go on to become one of the most iconic and hotly debated child murders in the history of American crime, a baffling case of a six-year-old beauty queen, her affluent parents, a bizarre ransom note, and a less-than-ideal police investigation. This is the … More JonBenét Ramsey
On October 8th, 1996, a farmer in Decatur, Texas stumbled upon the nude body in a pile of dead branches. It appeared the girl had been raped and strangled, though cause of death was not entirely clear, due to the state of decay. The victim bore no particular distinguishing marks, and would eventually come to … More April Lacy: Brush Girl
It was the morning of April 23rd, 1994, and a cleaning woman at Inokashira Park in Tokyo was emptying out the garbage cans when she came across a plastic bag that smelled particularly foul. At first believing it contained rotten fish, she opened the bag to take a peek inside, but was instead horrified to … More The Inokashira Park Dismemberment Incident
It was January 13th, 1996 in Arlington, Texas. Nine-year-old Amber Hagerman and her five-year-old brother Ricky were spending some time at their grandparents’ house on a Sunday afternoon when they decided to take a bike ride around the neighborhood. They set out at about three p.m., heading for the parking lot of an abandoned Winn-Dixie … More Amber Hagerman
On Saturday, June 14th, 1997, a twenty-two-year-old woman named Bilynda Williams was planning on going for a night out with her sister Kadee to a friend’s birthday party not far from their home in Moe, Victoria, Australia—a relatively small town about 80 miles from Melbourne. Bilynda had two children: Breehanna, who was two-and-a-half, and Jaidyn, … More Jaidyn Leskie
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