January 18th, 2001 was, by all accounts, a perfectly ordinary evening for Tara Louise Baker, a first-year law student at the University of Georgia in Athens. She and a friend had been studying at the Law School Library on campus; her friend left at around seven p.m., but Tara—a deeply caring individual whose family and … More Tara Baker
On December 11th, 2000, in Richmond, Virginia, a young man named Donald Harris, known as Donnie to friends and family, was apparently having a normal evening. He left his home on Williamsburg Road at around eight-thirty p.m. and got into his car for the short drive to a local restaurant, where he was going to … More Donald Harris
In the summer of 2000, in Cartersville, Georgia, an employee of Lacey Mills, Inc., a rug manufacturer, became concerned when her friend and coworker, fifty-three-year-old Patricia Hanlon, failed to show up for her shift on the morning of Thursday, July 27th. This coworker, in fact, was worried enough to go to Patricia’s apartment on North … More Patricia Hanlon
On July 9th, 2001, the decomposed body of twenty-seven-year-old mother of three Frances Lunsford was discovered behind an abandoned mobile home in Tifton, Georgia. The victim had been strangled to death. According to Frances’s mother, Sandra Purvis, she had last spoken to her daughter two days before the remains were found. Family members told the … More Frances Lunsford
It was nearly three p.m. on the afternoon of Tuesday, July 31st, when passersby walking near the Main River in Frankfurt, Germany spotted a body floating in the water. The dark-haired girl who was pulled from the waves looked as though she had suffered through unimaginable physical torture for years before she was finally murdered. … More The Girl from the Main
Forty-four-year-old Gary Raynal had only lived in Kansas City, Kansas for five years; prior to that, he had resided in San Francisco, California. He worked as a server at various area restaurants, but in 2001, had been making plans to move to the much warmer environs of central Florida. Sadly, he would never get the … More Gary Raynal
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
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