At six-thirty a.m. on the morning of January 21st, 1998, an alarm clock went off in the bedroom of twelve-year-old Stephanie Crowe, who lived in Escondido with her family. After several minutes of the clock buzzing loudly throughout the house, the girl’s grandmother went to Stephanie’s room to see why she wasn’t up yet. Horrifyingly, … More Stephanie Crowe
Sebilla Alida Johanna Niemands was thirty-two years old in late October of 1959. She had worked as a prostitute for most of her adult life after leaving an unhappy household and striking out on her own as a teenager. Though her dark, curly hair would eventually earn her the nickname Dark Molly, for some reason … More Sebilla Alida Johanna Niemands: Blonde Dolly
In mid-summer of 1978, a couple would be found murdered some distance apart, and would remain unidentified for nearly forty years. Though they have recently had their names restored, their killer is still unknown. It was June 17th, and a farmer was driving a tractor along an access road near Interstate 55 in Blytheville, Arkansas … More Jimmy Hendricks & Kim Mills
The summer of 1971 would be notable for the first disappearance of a young girl near the twenty-five-acre area of south Texas bordered by League City and the Calder Oil Field. From 1971 all the way into the mid-2000s, this desolate stretch of land would serve as the final resting place for the murdered bodies … More The Texas Killing Fields
It was August of 2000, and twenty-one-year-old Laneshia Crowder, known as Lane to friends and family, was living in the town of Carrollton, a safe and friendly exurb of Atlanta, with her two children: two-year-old daughter Lyric and seven-year-old son Kenneth. On Saturday, August 12th, the family had been on an outing, and they all … More Laneshia Crowder
In early November of 1997, in a suburb of Victoria, Australia, a woman would be coldly gunned down in her driveway in the middle of the afternoon, in a shocking crime that is now suspected to have been a case of mistaken identity. It was just after three-thirty p.m. on Thursday, November 6th, when thirty-four-year-old … More Jane Thurgood-Dove
It was Monday, April 30th, 1979, and Pacific Power & Light employee Bob Gilbert was performing his regular daily task of checking the dam that formed Mirror Lake from the surrounding Deschutes River in Bend, Oregon. On this particular day, though, he came across something as unexpected as it was grisly: a human thigh. Police … More Mary Jo Templeton
Twenty-eight-year-old Joyce Chiang was the daughter of Taiwanese immigrants, and worked as a lawyer for what was then called the Immigration and Naturalization Service, or INS. On the evening of January 9th, 1999, Joyce had been out to dinner and a movie with friends, and one of them had offered to give her a ride … More Joyce Chiang
In early August of 1993, a little girl visiting her grandmother in Massachusetts would vanish off a neighborhood street, only to turn up dead more than two months later. Ten-year-old Holly Piirainen lived with her family in Grafton, Massachusetts, but on August 5th, she, her father, and her two younger brothers were staying at their … More Holly Piirainen & Molly Bish
It was about quarter to eleven on the morning of Saturday, March 28th, 1987. Sixty-six-year-old Helen Fleet had bundled her two dogs, Bilbow and Cindy, into her blue Datsun and was driving out to Worlebury Woods near her home in Weston-super-Mare, in North Somerset, England, to take her beloved pets for a walk. She was … More Helen Fleet, Kate Bushell, Lyn Bryant
