The streets of Milwaukee, Wisconsin were dark and sparsely populated as Edwin Smith made his way home at a little past midnight on Saturday, August 23rd, 1960. But just as he steered his vehicle past the four-hundred block of North Plankinton Avenue, the quiet night was shattered by the sound of a woman screaming for … More Ida Lowry
The first half of 1946 saw the brief but horrific reign of one of the most infamous unapprehended serial killers in American history, one whose terrifyingly random attacks on couples parked in lovers’ lanes caused a panic among the residents of Texarkana and the surrounding areas, and later inspired, not only a popular urban legend … More The Phantom Killer: The Texarkana Moonlight Murders
If the year of 1932 dawned fairly quietly on the unsolved murder front, by the time spring rolled around, a crime occurred that easily made up for the months-long respite, just in terms of sheer weirdness. It was right around the first of May. Thirty-two-year-old Lilly Lindeström lived in the Atlas neighborhood of Stockholm, Sweden, … More Lilly Lindeström: The Atlas Vampire Case
January 28th, 2001, at least in the United States, was Super Bowl Sunday; the two NFL teams playing that day were the Baltimore Ravens and the New York Giants. Eighteen-year-old Jill-Lyn Euto had been planning on spending the day with her mother and sister at her mother’s home on Butternut Street in Syracuse, New York, … More Jill-Lyn Euto: The Super Bowl Sunday Murder
It was the evening of October 31st, 1963 in Newcastle upon Tyne. Seventy-year-old Katherine Lillian Armstrong, who usually answered to her middle name, was preparing to go to the nearby Methodist church for choir practice, as she did every Thursday evening. Lillian, a retired headmistress and lifelong spinster, had been a member of the congregation … More Katherine Lillian Armstrong: The Halloween Murder
Rikki Neave was six years old, and already hardened beyond his tender age. His mother Ruth, who had been the victim of abuse and neglect herself as a child and whose own parents had died in a bizarre suicide pact, was tragically repeating the cycle. She was a known amphetamine addict, and no stranger to … More Rikki Neave
In a small parish called Cockley Cley in the English county of Norfolk, a nineteen-year-old farm worker named Andrew Head was crossing a field when he noticed something covered with a large sheet of white plastic, lying in the overgrown grass. It was August 27th, 1974. Andrew lifted up the corner of the plastic to … More The Norfolk Headless Body
In the spring of 1972, in Australia, a man would be murdered by a gang of men suspected to have been police officers, and his death would spearhead a significant leap forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the country. Forty-one-year-old Dr. George Duncan had moved to Adelaide, South Australia on March 25th, 1972. Prior to that, … More Dr. George Duncan
On the day after Christmas of 1996, a crime occurred that would go on to become one of the most iconic and hotly debated child murders in the history of American crime, a baffling case of a six-year-old beauty queen, her affluent parents, a bizarre ransom note, and a less-than-ideal police investigation. This is the … More JonBenét Ramsey
Forty-two-year-old Bernita White, a computer engineer at Electronic Data Systems Corporation, was spending June 23rd, 2001 with her five-year-old daughter Michala in Potter Park in Lansing, Michigan, where one of Michala’s friends had been having a birthday party. Mother and daughter were at the park with Artis White, Bernita’s husband and Michala’s father. Notably, Bernita … More Bernita White
