Karen Hales

It was the snowy afternoon of Sunday, November 21st, 1993, and twenty-one-year-old Karen Hales was at the home she shared on Lavenham Road in Ipswich with her fiancé Peter Ruffles and the pair’s eighteen-month-old daughter Emily. At a little before four o’clock, it was already starting to get dark, and Peter left for work. Karen … More Karen Hales

Kori Lamaster

It was January 29th, 1994, and two young women—Monika Maeir and Lauri Duncan—were hiking through Pogonip Park in Santa Cruz, California, looking for wild mushrooms in the woods. What they found instead was the partially buried and decomposed remains of an unknown teenage girl. The victim was white, with short brown hair, pink nail polish, … More Kori Lamaster

Deanna Cremin

Seventeen-year-old Deanna Cremin lived with her parents and five siblings in Somerville, Massachusetts; she was a petite, attractive girl who volunteered for a local cable access station, worked part-time at the Star Market, and planned to go into teaching or social work after her graduation. On the evening of Wednesday, March 29th, 1995, Deanna had … More Deanna Cremin

Lindsay Rimer

Thirteen-year-old Lindsay Rimer lived with her parents and three siblings in a house on Cambridge Street in the market town of Hebden Bridge, in West Yorkshire, England. She had been there on the night of Monday, November 7th, 1994, but at about ten p.m., she decided to walk to a nearby supermarket to buy a … More Lindsay Rimer

Adem Bozkurt

At around four-thirty a.m. on the morning of April 4th, 1997, police in the area received a report of a serious car crash in the region of Wetterau, Germany; evidently, a black BMW had careened off a country road and slammed into a tree. When authorities arrived at the scene, they found a man dead … More Adem Bozkurt

Lina Marciano

The first day of March 1978 was a Wednesday, and nineteen-year-old Lina Marciano was setting out from her home in Wayville, a suburb of Adelaide, in South Australia. It was a little past six p.m. She said goodbye to her sister Teresa, put on her motorcycle helmet, and hopped onto her blue and white Honda … More Lina Marciano

Julie Ann Hall

In the summer of 1978, a man in Waunakee, Wisconsin would also make a grisly discovery just off a highway. It was the afternoon of Wednesday, June 21st, and contractor John Wagner was busy clearing some land in a wooded area near Highway 12 when he stumbled across the nude body of a young woman … More Julie Ann Hall

Lynda Farrow

It was the morning of January 19th, 1979, and thirty-year-old Lynda Farrow had been out on a shopping trip with her mother. Lynda, the mother of two daughters aged eleven and eight, had recently split up with her husband, and was dating a man who ran a produce stall. Lynda and her boyfriend were expecting … More Lynda Farrow