In the spring of 1974, in the American Midwest, a young woman would go missing from an adult bookstore and then turn up dead two days later. Twenty-four-year-old Patricia Webb was a complicated individual. Described by friends and family as beautiful, popular, compassionate, and loving, she was also something of a restless spirit. She had … More Patricia Webb
It was the afternoon of Thursday, October 6th, 1921. A twelve-year old girl named Janette Lawrence had a babysitting job after school in her hometown of Madison, New Jersey. She was seen leaving the house on Fairview Avenue where she’d been babysitting, but an hour later, she still had not arrived at her own home, … More Janette Lawrence: The Kluxen Woods Murder
On October 8th, 1996, a farmer in Decatur, Texas stumbled upon the nude body in a pile of dead branches. It appeared the girl had been raped and strangled, though cause of death was not entirely clear, due to the state of decay. The victim bore no particular distinguishing marks, and would eventually come to … More April Lacy: Brush Girl
It was late on the afternoon of Saturday, September 28th, 1974, and seven-year-old Patty Lee Kuzara had been at the home of her babysitter, located in a subdivision in Poway, a suburb about twenty miles from San Diego. At around dusk, with the permission of her mother, she decided to walk the two-and-a-half miles back … More Patty Lee Kuzara
It was the morning of April 23rd, 1994, and a cleaning woman at Inokashira Park in Tokyo was emptying out the garbage cans when she came across a plastic bag that smelled particularly foul. At first believing it contained rotten fish, she opened the bag to take a peek inside, but was instead horrified to … More The Inokashira Park Dismemberment Incident
On September 21st, 2001, in the United Kingdom, a heartbreaking and gruesome crime was discovered that would reveal a troubling undercurrent of black magic and human trafficking taking place in the nation’s capital. A passerby strolling near Tower Bridge in London, England on that Friday afternoon noticed a flash of something bright orange, floating in … More Adam, The London Torso
Early in May of 2001, a high-profile case in Hollywood, California would make headlines, and a well-known celebrity would be put on trial for the murder of his wife. Bonny Lee Bakley was born into relative poverty in New Jersey, but from a young age, she was stubbornly determined to become rich, famous, or both. … More Bonny Lee Bakley
January 18th, 1974 was a Friday, and twenty-year-old Glenis Carruthers had driven from her home in Bedford down to Clifton, in Bristol, England, to attend the twenty-first birthday party of her friend, Sandra Hardyman. The party seemed to be in full swing by around ten o’clock, with more than three dozen people present in the … More Glenis Carruthers
The first few years of the twentieth century in Britain had already seen at least one unsolved murder involving a train—that of Mary Sophia Money, from 1905—but 1914 would see yet another. It was a little past eleven a.m. on the morning of January 8th. Agnes Starchfield was planning to go out that day to … More Willie Starchfield
It was May, and Anne Dunwell had been staying with her aunt in Bramley, South Yorkshire, but only a few days into her visit, she decided to go back to her home in Whiston, where she lived with her grandparents. Reportedly, she had been meaning to stay with her aunt for several more days, but … More Anne Dunwell
