The winter of 1972 would see the bizarre slaughter of an entire family that took place during a raging snowstorm and was almost definitely not what it first appeared. It was February 3rd, and fifty-one-year-old Bryce Durham was attending a Rotary meeting in Boone, North Carolina. The winter weather had been so harsh that day … More The Durham Family
On July 31st, 1960, a family on the lookout for interesting rocks near a creek bed off Old Alamo Road in Congress, Arizona stumbled across the partly-buried and dreadfully decomposed body of a little girl. It appeared that whoever had killed the child or left the body there had made more than one attempt at … More Sharon Lee Gallegos: Little Miss Nobody
Rikki Neave was six years old, and already hardened beyond his tender age. His mother Ruth, who had been the victim of abuse and neglect herself as a child and whose own parents had died in a bizarre suicide pact, was tragically repeating the cycle. She was a known amphetamine addict, and no stranger to … More Rikki Neave
It was around seven p.m. on the evening of November 30th, 1948. A couple strolling along Somerton beach near Adelaide, South Australia noticed a man in a suit sitting with his back propped against the seawall. As they watched, the man extended his arm and then dropped it limply. About a half-hour later, another couple … More The Somerton Man: Finally Identified?
In late February of 1957, in the woods near Fox Chase, Philadelphia, a young man out checking his illegal muskrat traps came across a horrific find stuffed inside a large cardboard box. Not wanting to alert the police to his own unlawful behavior, however, he decided to leave well enough alone. A few days later, … More The Boy in the Box
Crime Immemorial 