Lorenzo Okaruru, better known as Loni Kai, was a twenty-eight-year-old transgender woman living in western Washington County, Oregon. It appears that Loni had been out and about on the night of Friday, August 25th, 2001, and at around two a.m. on the morning of the 26th, she was seen at a 7-Eleven convenience store near … More Loni Kai
It was May 31st, 2000, and nineteen-year-old Jill Behrman, who had just completed her freshman year at Indiana University in Bloomington, decided to go on a bike ride, as she often did. She left her home shortly after nine a.m. and set off on her usual route. Approximately half an hour later, motorists reported seeing … More Jill Behrman
Cheryll Maureen Grover was twenty-one years old, and was raising a daughter who was soon to turn one. She was still legally married to her husband Steven, but the pair had separated, and no longer shared the same residence. Cheryll lived in Newbury, Berkshire, in southeast England. On the evening of May 12th, 2000, a … More Cheryll Grover
Nineteen-year-old Chrishana Logan lived in half of a duplex on Robinwood Avenue in Toledo, Ohio, and worked as a dancer at a strip club called Platinum Showgirls, performing under the stage name of Vegas. She worked most nights, but she had the night of April 14th, 2000 off, and presumably stayed home. And home was … More Chrishana Logan
It was the night of March 27th, 2000, and seventeen-year-old Lisa Gaskin had been visiting her stepfather at his workplace before heading off on foot toward the Tulsa suburb of Oakhurst to see a friend who lived there. At some point, she was seen walking alongside the railroad tracks in the company of an unknown … More Lisa Gaskin
Thirty-seven-year-old Ricky Espinoza was a fun-loving individual, always ready for a party and well-liked by pretty much everyone. He had been working as a server at various hotel banquets in the Denver, Colorado area, but at the end of June 2001 was unemployed. He was staying with his mother in Colorado Springs, and apparently, on … More Ricky Espinoza
Irving Sicherer, better known as Al, was originally from Brooklyn, New York, but moved to Miami Beach, Florida with his wife and adopted son in 1967; the couple had another child three years later. Al was in catering, and worked as a maître d’ at the upscale Tides Hotel for many years. It seems, though, … More Irving “Al” Sicherer
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
Maria Hsiao had just turned twenty-one years old, and by all measures, had a bright future ahead of her. She had grown up in San Leandro, California, where she still lived, and was attending college at the California Academy of Art in San Francisco, where she was studying to be a digital effects designer. According … More Maria Hsiao
Twenty-seven-year-old Andre Jan Aylward was a well-liked young man who ran a pet shop in Streatham, a district in Greater London. Jan, as he was known to family and friends, was keenly interested in cars and car stereo equipment, and took great pleasure in working on his distinctive, lowered, black 5-Series BMW, which had an … More Andre Jan Aylward
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