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
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
Crime Immemorial 