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
The year of 1972 was barely two days old when a Midwestern war veteran would be shot to death for no apparent reason whatsoever. It was the evening of Saturday, January 1st: New Year’s Day. Fifty-five-year-old Edwin Harry Jacobs, who had served with the U.S. Army Signal Corps in World War II, was spending some … More Edwin Harry Jacobs
Sixteen-year-old Maria Lena Ybanez had been living a less-than-ideal life in Davenport, Iowa with her foster parents, Kathryn and Bernie Ybanez, who in the summer of 1973 were undergoing a bitter divorce, as well as enduring the loss of Kathryn’s five-year-old niece, who had been hit by a car a short time previously. Kathryn Ybanez … More Maria Lena Ybanez
As the summer of 1968 ended and autumn took hold, the City of Lights would host a mysterious murder that would eventually lead to a scandal that reached the highest levels of French government. On October 1st, the body of thirty-one-year-old Stevan Marković was discovered in a public dump in a village on the western … More Stevan Marković
In the autumn of 1967, nineteen-year-old WRAF aircraftwoman Rita Ellis was getting ready for a babysitting job on the RAF Halton base in Buckinghamshire, England. She had joined the WRAF the previous April, and by the time November rolled around, she was working for the St. Mary’s Hospital catering department on base, though she periodically … More Rita Ellis
Herbert Wilkinson was fifty-four years old, and up until 1966 had worked as a solicitor in the Cheshire village of Middlewich in England. However, he had been removed from his law practice for reasons which have since been lost to time. On June 2nd, 1967, he left a note for his housekeeper and went out … More Herbert Wilkinson
Twenty-nine-year-old barmaid Gloria Booth had been working at the White Hart pub in Northolt on the night of Saturday, June 12th, 1971. Her shift ended at half past eleven, and she began walking home shortly afterward, a journey she had taken countless times. Early the next morning, a newspaper delivery boy taking a shortcut through … More Gloria Booth
Seventeen-year-old Dorothy Leyden had spent the evening of April 24th, 1971 at the Golden Garter nightclub in south Manchester. She and her friends had been watching a concert by American Motown singer Jimmy Ruffin, and while enjoying herself in the front row, Dorothy had even caught a towel that Ruffin had tossed into the crowd … More Dorothy Leyden
Sixteen-year-old Pamela Conyers was a student at Glen Burnie High School in Maryland. At a little past eight p.m. on the evening of Friday, October 16th, Pamela had just returned home from a pep rally, and planned to spend the hours before bedtime working on the outfit she was going to wear to the school … More Pamela Conyers
Susan Long, an insurance clerk at Norwich Union in England, actually lived in the market town of Aylsham, but often traveled by bus to Norwich for work and to visit her boyfriend, who lived there. After spending a pleasant evening at the Gala Dance Hall on March 10th, 1970, Susan bid her boyfriend goodbye and … More Susan Long
