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

Nineteen-year-old Ashley Dighton was spotted on CCTV cameras on the afternoon of June 11th, 2007 entering a Sainsbury’s supermarket on Simone Weil Avenue in Ashford, Kent, England. At some point after this sighting, he mysteriously vanished. A month later, his horribly decomposed remains, minus his head and sections of his arms, were discovered dumped in … More Ashley Dighton

Thirty-year-old banker Alistair Wilson lived with his wife Veronica and their two children in the town of Nairn, Scotland, about seventeen miles east of Inverness. Alistair seemed by all accounts to have a completely normal existence until 2004, when he unwittingly became the victim of one of the country’s most mysterious and infamous unsolved murders. … More Alistair Wilson

Russell and Shirley Dermond were an elderly couple, living in a gated community near Lake Oconee, northeast of Eatonton, Georgia. The pair had married in 1950 and had four children and nine grandchildren. Russell had owned several Hardee’s restaurants in Atlanta before retiring in 1994. On May 1st of 2014, Russell was spotted in Eatonton … More Russell and Shirley Dermond

In the UK in 2010, the bizarre death of a brilliant but intensely private individual would eventually spawn rumors of covert assassination by either the British secret service or a shady foreign power. Gareth Williams, a highly intelligent, Welsh-born mathematician, began working for Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) in Cheltenham in 2001, not long after receiving … More Gareth Williams