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
Andrew Moore, known as Andy to friends and family, had been born Nguyen Tan Tai in Vietnam in 1974, but at the age of seven months, had been adopted by Dick and Rita Moore and taken to live in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. There, he grew up an athletic and cheerful child, much adored by his parents … More Andrew Moore
The summer of 1971 would be notable for the first disappearance of a young girl near the twenty-five-acre area of south Texas bordered by League City and the Calder Oil Field. From 1971 all the way into the mid-2000s, this desolate stretch of land would serve as the final resting place for the murdered bodies … More The Texas Killing Fields
It was August of 2000, and twenty-one-year-old Laneshia Crowder, known as Lane to friends and family, was living in the town of Carrollton, a safe and friendly exurb of Atlanta, with her two children: two-year-old daughter Lyric and seven-year-old son Kenneth. On Saturday, August 12th, the family had been on an outing, and they all … More Laneshia Crowder
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
Early September of 2000 in northwest England saw a grisly murder take place, of a troubled young woman whose mental health had tragically deteriorated over the previous decade. And in a particularly ghastly touch, her brother would later be savagely slain as well, in a completely unrelated incident. Susan Kelly was thirty-eight years old in … More Susan Kelly
In the winter of 2000, in England, a young woman who occasionally resorted to sex work would be found dead in a particularly grisly fashion. It has been speculated that her murder may be linked to several other killings and disappearances that took place from 1999 until 2002, some of which have been attributed to … More Zoe Parker
January 28th, 2001, at least in the United States, was Super Bowl Sunday; the two NFL teams playing that day were the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants. Eighteen-year-old Jill-Lyn Euto had been planning on spending the day with her mother and sister at her mother’s home on Butternut Street in Syracuse, New York, … More Jill-Lyn Euto: The Super Bowl Sunday Murder
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