Fifty-one-year-old Terrianne Summers had spent the first part of her life as Gary, and had served twenty-two years as an engineer in the Navy under that moniker, eventually attaining the rank of Commander. She had also married and fathered two sons. But in the late 1990s, Terrianne realized she could no longer stifle her true … More Terrianne Summers

Twenty-year-old Nyoka Brice hailed from the small town of Salem, New Jersey, and in February of 2000 was six months pregnant, though the identity of the child’s father is unclear. According to The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nyoka was seen alive on February 9th, spending time with a girlfriend, but evidently her whereabouts were unknown after that … More Nyoka Brice

About a week into the month of April, a hard-working immigrant doing a favor for a family member would be savagely slain by someone who authorities termed, “a straight psychopath.” In the year 2000, thirty-seven-year-old Shailesh S. Patel was living in Locust Grove, Georgia with his wife and two children. Shailesh had moved to the … More Shailesh S. Patel

Thirty-one-year-old Stuart Lubbock, a meat factory supervisor and father of two, was spending the night of Friday, March 30th, 2001 partying with some friends. At a club called Millennium in Harlow, Essex, he happened to run into Michael Barrymore, a rather famous TV host and comedian, and at some point during the night, Barrymore invited … More Stuart Lubbock

On June 30th, 2001, a body would be discovered in a remote house, and a host of baffling questions would arise shortly after the autopsy results came in. Forty-one-year-old Eric Tamiyasu lived in Hood River, Oregon, and had recently built a home next to the orchard business he owned on Binns Hill Road. It was … More Eric Tamiyasu

September 11th, 2001, was, of course, a day that changed everything in the United States; a day that saw the callous slaughter of nearly three-thousand people by a group of terrorists; a day that caused unimagined upheaval to the culture at large, and whose after-effects still resonate right up until the present day. However, there … More Henryk Siwiak

Twenty-year-old Amanda Tusing, better known as Mandy to her family and friends, had a promising future ahead of her. She had just started working in a veterinarian’s office, and was hoping to one day become a vet herself. She had also recently become engaged to her boyfriend, Matt Ervin, and had already started consulting bridal … More Amanda Tusing

At a little before eleven a.m. on the morning of November 6th, 2001, a woman pulled into the parking lot of a hair and nail salon in the rural, forested burg of Florence, Montana. The salon, called The Hair Gallery, had once been the town’s post office, but had been serving the community’s beauty needs … More The Florence Salon Murders

In autumn of 2000, within the shady world of Middle Eastern black market antiquities dealers, the details of an utterly bizarre case would begin to come to light. While authorities initially believed they were faced with a violation of the Antiquities Act at best and an outright forgery at worst, it would soon become apparent … More The Persian Princess