It was between three and three-thirty a.m. on the morning of June 18th, 2002, and Christina Wilson, mother of a two-year-old son named Tyler and living with her parents Brian and Paula near Fort Myers, Florida, went into her bedroom to sleep. At some point soon after this, she mysteriously vanished from the house. Her … More Christina Wilson

For one family in the town of Orange, Texas, the Independence Day holiday would be a time not of celebration, but of unthinkable tragedy. At some time on the night of July 4th, 2002, someone crept into the Finley home and spirited away a four-year-old girl named Dannarriah, who was asleep in her bed. She … More Dannarriah Finley

At a little past four a.m. on the morning of May 11th, 2002, a twenty-one-year-old woman named Mahogany Davis staggered out of her flat and into the parking lot of the Little Dipper apartment complex in Fairbanks, Alaska. She was clad only in skimpy pajamas and was bleeding profusely; she soon collapsed onto the asphalt, … More Mahogany Davis

Thirty-six-year-old Tonya Darden was last seen alive on January 10th, 2002, near the intersection of Lockbourne and Smith in Franklin County, Ohio. Two days later, her nude and strangled body was discovered near a cemetery in a rural area off lonely Rowe Road. Tonya had once worked for the Columbus Urban League after she graduated … More Tonya Darden

On the afternoon of April 24th, 2002, sixty-nine-year-old father of five Terry Morgan picked up his wife Shirley from work, and the couple then returned to their home in Ennerdale, Coventry, England. Just as Terry was getting out of his vehicle, however, a largely-built man ran up the driveway and shot Terry once in the … More Terry Morgan

It was a few days before Easter of 2002 in Norwich, England, and twenty-two-year-old sex worker Michelle Bettles evidently had an appointment with a regular client near her home on Dereham Road. Michelle didn’t keep her appointment, however, and oddly, CCTV footage from around eight-twenty p.m. on Thursday, March 28th showed her walking toward the … More Michelle Bettles

On February 23rd, 2002, the nude and partially decomposed body of a woman was found in a pond near a bridge in a rural part of Comanche County, Oklahoma. Authorities quickly identified the victim as twenty-nine-year-old Janice Buono, a known sex worker in the area. The medical examiner determined that Janice had died from an … More Janice Buono

On March 13th of 2002, a park ranger came across several bags on a moor on Winsford Hill near Somerset. Though the bags emitted a somewhat foul odor, the park ranger assumed they contained animal remains, and didn’t open them, instead arranging for them to be taken to a nearby kennel, where they were going … More The Exmoor Body Mystery

The evening of Wednesday, March 13th, 2002 seemed to be going relatively normally for former rugby player and father of two Evan Jones, who was originally from Chippenham, England, but had lived in Bristol for more than a decade. He stopped in for his usual Guinness at the Beaufort Pub in Montpelier at a little … More Evan Jones

On January 16th of 2002, forty-four-year-old Dennis Matlock was found dead in his home by friend and neighbor John Hood, in the small town of Reklaw, Texas. According to the medical examiner, he had died from blunt force trauma to the head and multiple stab wounds. The weapon that caused the head injury has not … More Dennis Matlock