It was very early on the morning of September 18th, 1966. All was quiet in the posh, stately Kenilworth home of the Percy family, occupied by Bell & Howell executive and U.S. Senatorial candidate Charles Percy, his second wife Loraine, and his five children, three of whom were a product of his first marriage to … More Valerie Percy
It was Saturday, November 24th, 1973, two days after Thanksgiving. Thirty-year-old Ethel Higonnet, a fellow of Radcliffe Institute and the wife of Harvard professor Patrice Higonnet, was walking in Longfellow Park only a few blocks from her home when she was suddenly set upon by an unknown assailant at around five-forty-five p.m. According to a … More Ethel Higonnet
It was September 2nd, 1973, and ten-year-old Brian McDermott was playing in Ormeau Park near his home in Belfast, Northern Ireland. He never came back home, and despite a massive search, his fate would be unknown until a week later. On September 9th, the child’s burned and mutilated body was found in a sack in … More Brian McDermott
On August 23rd, 1973, a fifteen-year-old boy named James Teta vanished from his home in Revere, Massachusetts. Two days later, his nude body was found in a wooded area off Route 119 in Rindge, New Hampshire. He had been raped and strangled. The investigation into his death remained stagnant for years, until an unsettling clue … More James Teta
Fifteen-year-olds Diane Compagna and Anne Psaradelis had spent Thursday, July 12th, 1973 at Hampton Beach, approximately fifty miles from their homes in Merrimack, New Hampshire. At around four-thirty p.m., the two girls were spotted trying to thumb a ride back home, but it was the last time they were seen alive. At first, authorities and … More Diane Compagna and Anne Psaradelis
Seventeen-year-old Susan Wickersham drove to the Sage Room Restaurant in Bend, Oregon on the afternoon of July 11th, 1973. Her mother worked there, and Susan was just dropping off her mother’s car, after which she planned to have some friends pick her up and take her back home. A server at the Sage Room, Denice … More Susan Wickersham
Nineteen-year-old Robin Jeanne Hoinville-Bartram and her friend, eighteen-year-old Anita Cunningham were roommates, and both studied graphic art at the Prahran Technical College in Melbourne, Australia. On July 4th, 1972, the girls packed their bags and set out to hitchhike the twenty-five-hundred miles to Bowen, Queensland to visit Robin’s mother. Over the ensuing months, the two … More Robin Jeanne Hoinville-Bartram and Anita Cunningham
May 2nd, 1972 dawned in the home of the Palmieri family in Staten Island, New York; it was just a typical day for the family of six, consisting of dad Vincent, mom Annette, and their four children: Patrick, Sal, Angela, and Vincent Jr. Thirty-six-year-old Vincent Palmieri, who worked at a print shop in Manhattan, bid … More Vincent Palmieri
Thirty-seven-year-old Donald Goines had a checkered past, to put it mildly. Born in Detroit, Michigan to middle-class parents who owned a laundry business, Donald became somewhat troubled as a teenager. At the age of fifteen, he falsified his identification and joined the Air Force, eventually going on to fight in the Korean War. While Donald … More Donald Goines
It was about quarter to eight on the morning of Tuesday, March 21st, 1972, and fourteen-year-old Marilyn Wallman was riding her bicycle to the bus stop near her family’s farm in Mackay, Queensland. Her two brothers, Rex and David, were only a few minutes behind her. A little more than half a mile from home, … More Marilyn Wallman
