As the autumn of 1988 approached, a young English woman with a passion for photography and adventure would be brutally cut down while on an African safari. Twenty-eight-year-old Julie Ward worked for a publishing company in Suffolk, England, but had always dreamed of trekking across the Serengeti and capturing the majesty of nature with her … More Julie Ward
As the autumn of 1987 descended, a strange and grimly classic English murder mystery would begin to unfold in a crumbling old manor house in rural Shropshire. Simon Dale had spent much of his career as an architect, following in the footsteps of his father. He mainly focused on restoring country mansions that had fallen … More Murder at the Manor: Simon Dale
In June 1984, a young woman disappeared from a Stockholm street and later turned up butchered in a crime that became Sweden’s most notorious unsolved murder. It also inspired Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling novel The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (originally titled Men Who Hate Women in Sweden). Twenty-eight-year-old Catrine da Costa, a prostitute and … More Catrine da Costa
Recent high school graduate Paula Jean Oberbroeckling was a beautiful, blonde eighteen-year-old with aspirations to become a model. In the summer of 1970, she was working part-time as a sales clerk at Younker’s Department Store, while also tutoring developmentally disabled children in her spare time. She and her roommate Debbie Kellogg shared a small house … More Paula Jean Oberbroeckling
Late September of 1970 would feature the murder of a prominent rancher in Oklahoma, a case that remains one of the most infamous unsolved homicides in the state’s history. Thirty-two-year-old E.C. Mullendore III was living the high life on the 130,000-acre Cross Bell Ranch in Osage County, Oklahoma. E.C. had inherited the massive property from … More E.C. Mullendore III
It was Saturday, June 18th, 1988, and twenty-two-year-old Marie Wilks, seven months pregnant with her second child, had been spending the day in the village of Symonds Yat with her husband Adrian, who was there on a training exercise for the Territorial Army. She was also accompanied by her eleven-year-old sister Georgina, and her and … More Marie Wilks
The winter of 1972 would see the bizarre slaughter of an entire family that took place during a raging snowstorm and was almost definitely not what it first appeared. It was February 3rd, and fifty-one-year-old Bryce Durham was attending a Rotary meeting in Boone, North Carolina. The winter weather had been so harsh that day … More The Durham Family
On the very last day of 1998, on the South Island of New Zealand, a young woman would disappear while out walking her dog. Her body would not be found until weeks into the new year. Fifteen-year-old Kirsty Bentley lived in the town of Ashburton with her parents, Jill and Sidney, and her older brother … More Kirsty Bentley
In early February of 1990, in central Florida, a young woman was likely abducted from the store where she was working. The victim’s remains were never found, and it is uncertain whether the disappearance is related to several other convenience store clerk murders occurring throughout central Florida at the time. Twenty-six-year-old Deborah Poe had just … More Deborah Poe
In the autumn of 1983, in London, England, a wealthy, professional woman would be savagely beaten to death by the side of the road, and though many strange clues hint at an unusually intriguing mystery surrounding her slaying, it remains unresolved more than three decades later. Thirty-six-year-old Janice Weston was a successful solicitor, a partner … More Janice Weston: The A1 Murder
