Just before Christmas of 1982, in Ohio, two murders would take place within a week of one another, with the bodies discovered in very close proximity. To this day, neither case has been resolved, and it is unknown whether the two crimes are related, though it seems quite likely. On Wednesday, December 15th, fourteen-year-old Sonya … More Sonya Green and Annette Lawrence
On August 24th of 1982, a pair of hikers out looking for mushrooms in Gambrills State Park in Frederick, Maryland chanced across a steamer trunk, which was partially covered with leaves and sticks, but did not appear to have been deliberately concealed. What the hikers found inside the trunk sent them hightailing it out of … More The Cheerleader in the Trunk
On the morning of March 13th, 1987, in a suburb of Cleveland, Ohio called Bedford, a twenty-four-year-old mother of two was found viciously stabbed to death inside her own apartment. Analia Zavodny was the night manager of the Alamo Apartments on Broadway Avenue. Three years after she was slain, her boyfriend was put on trial … More Analia Zavodny
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
As 1981 was drawing to a close, a young girl in Canada would disappear while trying to thumb a lift. Fourteen-year-old Dana Bradley had been hanging out at a friend’s house in St. John’s, Newfoundland on December 14th, but at around five p.m., decided she had better start heading toward home, as her mother was … More Dana Bradley
The first week of June of 1991 would see the appalling slaughter of a successful businesswoman in broad daylight in a parking lot in England. Ruth Penelope Bell, better known to family and friends as Penny, was a forty-three-year-old woman who ran a thriving employment agency called Coverstaff Ltd., which placed candidates in catering positions. … More Penny Bell
Not long after the end of the 1980s and the dawn of a new decade, an elderly woman looking forward to a sunny Florida retirement would instead turn up murdered in her own home. Sixty-seven-year-old Eileen Jones had only moved to Gainesville, in north Florida, in 1989. She had always been something of a loner, … More Eileen Jones
In the summer of 1990, in France, a gay pastor would be spirited away by supposed police officers and later be found dead, possibly the victim of a nefarious conspiracy. Joseph Doucé had been born to a Catholic family in Belgium, but in later years converted to the Baptist faith, studied to become a pastor, … More Joseph Doucé
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
On the day after Valentine’s Day of 1991, a group of windsurfers was enjoying a camping trip at the Bahia Honda State Recreation area on West Summerland Key in South Florida. The location where they had set up camp was a thickly wooded copse not far off the beach and quite close to the Bahia … More Wanda Kirkum: Valentine Jane Doe
