Twenty-three-year-old Sarah MacDiarmid was originally from the Scottish Highlands, but emigrated to Melbourne, Australia with her family in 1987. On July 11th, 1990, Sarah had been playing tennis at Flinders Park in East Melbourne with two friends after work, and after their game, they walked to the nearby Richmond station to catch the Frankston line … More Sarah MacDiarmid
On the evening of Thursday, March 12th, 1981, twelve-year-old Tammy Leakey had gone with her mother Betty and younger sister Donna to the home of a friend named Bonnie Tapp in the Pointe Saint Charles neighborhood of Montreal, Canada. At around eight-forty-five p.m., Betty sent Tammy to a store about a block away to buy … More Tammy Leakey
In the summer of 2010, twenty-year-old Amber Tuccaro, a member of the Mikisew Cree First Nation, was living in Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, along with her mother and her fourteen-month-old son Jacob. On August 17th, Amber and her son, along with a female friend, flew to Edmonton for a vacation, staying in a hotel in … More Amber Tuccaro
Nineteen-year-old Theresa Allore was a college student at Champlain College Lennoxville, Quebec, Canada, and lived in a dorm about fifteen minutes away, in Compton. She was last seen alive on campus on November 3rd, 1978, but subsequently disappeared. For five long months, her family and the police could find no trace of her, but then, … More Theresa Allore
In 1925, Arthur Schumacher, better known as Buddy, was eight years old and lived with his parents and older sister in Wauwatosa, Wisconsin. At around nine o’clock on the morning of July 25th, Buddy and three other boys from the neighborhood hopped a freight train to ride to a local swimming hole they frequented. Shortly … More Arthur “Buddy” Schumacher
James Douglas Edgar was born in 1884 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England, and by the time he became an adult, he was well on his way to a successful career as a professional golfer. He won the French Open in 1914, and five years later, emigrated to the United States, where he settled in Atlanta, … More James Douglas Edgar
In the summer of 1919, Mabel Greenwood lived in a comfortable house in Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire, in southwest Wales. Her husband Harold was a solicitor, originally from Yorkshire, and the couple had four children. On June 16th, Mabel was feeling under the weather and started complaining of stomach pains after eating gooseberry pie and a glass … More Mabel Greenwood
In early 1982, twenty-six-year-old Andrea Buchanan was an up-and-coming professional tennis player with a bright future ahead of her. Just a few months previously, she had competed in both the 1981 Wimbledon Championships and the 1981 US Open, acquitting herself well at both tournaments. She was a popular and well-liked player and was close friends … More Andrea Buchanan
Twenty-one-year-old Billy Stone worked the night shift as a telegraph operator at the Whitby Junction railroad station in Whitby, Ontario, Canada. Just after midnight on December 11th, 1914, Billy extinguished nearly all the lights in the station, as he usually did, leaving only his desk lamp burning. Suddenly, at around twelve-thirty-seven a.m., a single gunshot … More Billy Stone
It was the summer of 1909 in New York City, and twenty-year-old Elsie Sigel left her family’s apartment to visit her grandmother not far away. Elsie, who was the granddaughter of famed Civil War general Franz Sigel, was herself a missionary who worked in Chinatown, helping young women who had become involved in drugs and … More Elsie Sigel
