The first half of 1946 saw the brief but horrific reign of one of the most infamous unapprehended serial killers in American history, one whose terrifyingly random attacks on couples parked in lovers’ lanes caused a panic among the residents of Texarkana and the surrounding areas, and later inspired, not only a popular urban legend … More The Phantom Killer: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders

If the year of 1932 dawned fairly quietly on the unsolved murder front, by the time spring rolled around, a crime occurred that easily made up for the months-long respite, just in terms of sheer weirdness. It was right around the first of May. Thirty-two-year-old Lilly Lindeström lived in the Atlas neighborhood of Stockholm, Sweden, … More Lilly Lindeström: The Atlas Vampire Case

It was the afternoon of Thursday, October 6th, 1921. A twelve-year old girl named Janette Lawrence had a babysitting job after school in her hometown of Madison, New Jersey. She was seen leaving the house on Fairview Avenue where she’d been babysitting, but an hour later, she still had not arrived at her own home, … More Janette Lawrence: The Kluxen Woods Murder

The first few years of the twentieth century in Britain had already seen at least one unsolved murder involving a train—that of Mary Sophia Money, from 1905—but 1914 would see yet another. It was a little past eleven a.m. on the morning of January 8th. Agnes Starchfield was planning to go out that day to … More Willie Starchfield

It was the late fall of 1923. Three men, Edward Nickols, Roy Wilson, and Dewey Morris, were heading out from their homes in Bend, Oregon to spend the winter fur trapping at a cabin near Little Lava Lake. The cabin was owned by a logging contractor named Edward Logan, who had agreed to let the … More The Lava Lake Murders

Pamela Werner was the adopted daughter of Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner, a retired British diplomat who had remained in the Chinese capital after his retirement, becoming an expert in the language and culture of the country and often lecturing at Peking University. Though his wife Gladys Ravenshaw had died in 1922, E.T.C. Werner had stepped … More Pamela Werner

September 24th, 1905 was a Sunday, and twenty-two-year-old bookkeeper Mary Money had received her week‘s wages on the previous day. The dairy that employed her, owned by a man named Mr. Bridge, was in Lavender Hill, Clapham, and it also served as Mary’s home, as it did for some of the dairy’s other employees, including … More Mary Money

Benny Evangelist was something of a polarizing figure in Detroit, Michigan, to say the least. Carpenter by day, cult leader by night, Benny had actually been born Benjamin Evangelista in Sicily before immigrating to the United States in the early years of the twentieth century. He and his wife Santina had four children—Angeline, eight; Margaret, … More The St. Aubin Street Massacre

Caroline Mary Luard was in many ways the quintessential society woman of the late Victorian era. She had been born into a wealthy family, and in 1875 married Charles Edward Luard, a professional soldier who had retired in 1887 with the rank of Major-General in the Royal Engineers. The couple was spending their later years … More Caroline Mary Luard: The Seal Chart Murder

In February of 1945, a horrific murder in a sleepy English village would prompt furtive whispers about witchcraft, black magic, and occult sacrifices. Charles Walton was a 74-year-old farm laborer who had called the little town of Lower Quinton home for his entire life. He lived in a modest cottage with his niece, Edith Walton, … More Charles Walton: The Pitchfork Murder