The year of 1967 would be less than a week old before a seemingly random murder in England would shock the public with its grisly and scandalous details. Seventeen-year-old Bernard Oliver hailed from North London, and worked in a warehouse near his home in Muswell Hill. By all accounts, he was a friendly, soft-spoken young … More Bernard Oliver: The Tattingstone Suitcase Murder
Early September of 2000 in northwest England saw a grisly murder take place, of a troubled young woman whose mental health had tragically deteriorated over the previous decade. And in a particularly ghastly touch, her brother would later be savagely slain as well, in a completely unrelated incident. Susan Kelly was thirty-eight years old in … More Susan Kelly
Before 1980 came to a close, a troubled young girl in Kalamazoo, Michigan would disappear without trace, and though her body would be found only a month into the new year, she would remain unidentified for decades, known only as Bossier Doe until authorities in 2015 finally matched her with her true identity: Carol Ann … More Carol Ann Cole: Bossier Doe
On July 31st, 1960, a family on the lookout for interesting rocks near a creek bed off Old Alamo Road in Congress, Arizona stumbled across the partly-buried and dreadfully decomposed body of a little girl. It appeared that whoever had killed the child or left the body there had made more than one attempt at … More Sharon Lee Gallegos: Little Miss Nobody
Thirty-two-year-old Dorothy Jane Scott was a quiet, deeply religious woman, a single mother who lived in Stanton, California with her aunt and her four-year-old son Shawn. Her ex-husband had moved to Missouri some time before, and to help support herself and her child, Dorothy had taken a job as a secretary for a pair of … More Dorothy Jane Scott
Early in the spring of 1998, a priest would be slaughtered in cold blood for reasons which are still unclear, though everything from cult sacrifice to a crime of passion to a vast conspiracy has been put forward in the years since. Sixty-seven-year-old Father Alfred Kunz was a traditionalist, Roman Catholic priest who served at … More Father Alfred Kunz
In the winter of 2000, in England, a young woman who occasionally resorted to sex work would be found dead in a particularly grisly fashion. It has been speculated that her murder may be linked to several other killings and disappearances that took place from 1999 until 2002, some of which have been attributed to … More Zoe Parker
In the very early summer of 1960, a heinous triple murder at a camp site would sear itself into the cultural framework of Finland, and eventually become one of the most infamous unsolved homicides in the Western world. It was a Saturday in early June, in a town called Vantaa, not far from Finland’s capital … More The Lake Bodom Murders
In the winter of 1938, in Kingston, Pennsylvania, a recent graduate of Wilkes-Barre Business College headed out to a job interview that would turn out to be a literal dead end. Margaret Martin was nineteen years old, by all accounts a quiet, intelligent, and pious young woman with many friends. She had been training to … More Margaret Martin
Seventeen-year-old Raonaid Murray lived in Glenageary, South Dublin, Ireland with her parents and two older siblings. She had done well in school, and was planning to go on to University College Dublin, possibly to become a writer. In the meantime, she was working part-time at a ladies’ fashion boutique in the coastal town of Dún … More Raonaid Murray
