On January 12th, 1981, a dog sniffing around a privately-owned, wooded area near Houston, Texas discovered the partially buried and decomposed bodies of two probable teenagers who remained unidentified until very recently. The victims had apparently been murdered about two months previously, and the amount of time that had passed since their deaths meant that … More Harris County Does

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

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