Seventy-year-old Eva Booth lived in the quiet suburb of Hartley, on the outskirts of Plymouth, Devon, England. She had been married to H.E. Booth, Plymouth’s esteemed Housing Estates Manager who retired in 1948 and passed away in 1957. Eva had endured profound loss over the years: the couple’s only son was killed in an air … More Eva Booth

Thirty-four-year-old Marion Hodges lived in Balgray, Lockerbie, Scotland. She had two children and worked at the city’s Clydesdale Bank. At around seven-thirty p.m. on Friday, July 6th, 1984, she was dropped off in the Whitesands area of Dumfries. The last time she was seen, she was wearing a cream-colored blouse with a high collar, a … More Marion Hodges

It was February 27th, 1999, and seventeen-year-old Michelle Bright had been at a friend’s birthday party in New South Wales, Australia. Another friend dropped her off near her home on Mayne Street in Gulgong at about quarter to one in the morning. She was never seen alive again. Three days later, her body was found … More Michelle Bright

At a little after six a.m. on the morning of August 9th, 1976, trucker Martin Durant noticed the fully-clothed dead bodies of a man and woman sprawled alongside a remote unpaved track between Interstate 95 and Lynches River Road in South Carolina. Each victim had been shot three times with a .357 caliber revolver: once … More Pamela Buckley and James Freund: Sumter County Does

On the morning of September 12th, 1976, a body was discovered near the back gate of a cemetery off Dogwood Road in Woodlawn, Maryland. The victim was a young woman between the ages of fifteen and thirty, who had been beaten, savagely raped, and then strangled to death. Police determined that she had been killed … More Margaret Fetterolf: Woodlawn Jane Doe

In the summer of 1976, a forty-six-year-old hotel manager in Australia would check into a fancy hotel and never check out. Rex Keen lived in Bowen on the coast of Queensland, but on August 9th, 1976, he traveled to Brisbane to attend the Queensland Royal Show, which he did every year. Another thing he did … More Rex Keen

On December 20th, 1976, a teenage boy walking near one of the supports of the three-hundred-foot bridge spanning the Lehigh River in White Haven, Pennsylvania, came across a ghastly tableau: two open suitcases with a severed head, a torso, and a dead baby spilling out of them. A third, unopened suitcase lay nearby. When officers … More Evelyn Colon: Beth Doe

On March 10th, 1985, a young woman would be found dead on a roadside in the American Southwest. A group of three rabbit hunters out patrolling an area off County Road E73 about twenty miles from Hatch, New Mexico stumbled upon the partial skeletal remains of a human being, scattered beneath a layer of thin … More Dorothy Harrison: Doña Ana County Jane Doe

It was October 27th, 1985, and a father and son walking across a piece of land off State Highway 51 just south of Springtown, Texas spotted a smattering of human bones in the dirt. Forensic examination determined that the partial skeleton belonged to a white male between the ages of fourteen and twenty-one years old, … More Billy Fiegener: Parker County John Doe

A few days before Halloween of 1990, there would be a horrific murder of a handsome gay man in the streets of Tinseltown, a crime that was sadly largely forgotten until recently. William Arnold Newton was originally from Wisconsin, but eventually ended up in Los Angeles in 1985 after wandering around the country for a … More William Newton