Jacob “Jaap” Bornkamp was originally from Rotterdam, the Netherlands, but moved to London, England when he was nineteen years old to pursue a career as a florist. He found success almost immediately, landing a job with the prestigious firm Pulbrook and Gould, which provided floral arrangements for royals and important political figures. When Jaap was … More Jaap Bornkamp
Born in Puerto Rico in 1986, Lorena Escalera worked as a makeup artist in her native country before moving to New York City when she turned eighteen, with aspirations of becoming a model and performer. Once arriving in the big city, Escalera joined the famous performance house, The House of Xtravaganza, a staple of the … More Lorena Xtravaganza
On the 25th of January, 2010, a former parking lot in Manchester, England was undergoing redevelopment when a worker noticed a human skull. Further investigation yielded the rest of the skeleton, hidden underneath scraps of blue carpeting. The victim was found to be female, aged between eighteen and thirty-five, probably standing between five-foot-one and five-foot-seven, … More Angel of the Meadow
Ebby Steppach was an eighteen-year-old senior at a high school in Little Rock, Arkansas; her senior year was the first she had spent in a public high school, as she had previously attended private school. In August or September of 2015, Ebby had moved out of her parents’ home and had been regularly staying with … More Ebby Steppach
On October 16th, 2012, a driver in Houston pulled over along the shoulder of the traffic-heavy Walters Road, to check for a problem with their hubcap. While engaged in this pursuit, the driver noticed a large, black plastic garbage bag tossed in a pile of trash near the gate to a gravel road leading to … More Smurfette Jane Doe
In the summer of 2010, twenty-year-old Amber Tuccaro, a member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, was living in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, along with her mother and her fourteen-month-old son Jacob. On August 17th, Amber and her son, along with a female friend, flew to Edmonton for a vacation, staying in a hotel in … More Amber Tuccaro
On the evening of March 13th, 2015, fifty-year-old antique dealer Robyn Mercer had just finished dinner and then went out the front door of her house in West Molesey, Surrey, England, presumably to throw something into the garbage bins at the end of her driveway. She never returned to her home. The following morning at … More Robyn Mercer
In 2009, thirty-seven-year-old Paula Hounslea was having something of a rough time. She was suffering from poor health in general and bipolar disorder in particular, and though she had worked as a seamstress and a bartender in the past, she was unemployed at this juncture in her life. She lived in West Derby, Liverpool, England, … More Paula Hounslea
On the afternoon of November 15th, 2013, several gardeners were clearing weeds at a house on Audley Drive in the village of Warlingham, in Surrey, England. One of the workers noticed that the padlock on the cover of the seven-foot well in the garden had been broken; curious, the gardener lifted the cover and peered … More Damian Chlywka
On the evening of April 30th, 2012, ninety-two-year-old Emma Winnell was put to bed by her home-care nurse. Emma was in her own house, located in the suburb of Moseley, in Birmingham, England. The nurse left shortly after her duties had been accomplished, locking the front door behind her as she always did. But when … More Emma Winnell
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