In the summer of 1993, in Los Angeles, a well-known club promoter and record executive would be found brutally butchered in his apartment, in a crime that some have sought to link with one of the most high-profile murder cases in American history. Twenty-five-year-old Brett Cantor was originally from New York, but moved with his … More Brett Cantor
About a week into the month of April, a hard-working immigrant doing a favor for a family member would be savagely slain by someone who authorities termed, “a straight psychopath.” In the year 2000, thirty-seven-year-old Shailesh S. Patel was living in Locust Grove, Georgia with his wife and two children. Shailesh had moved to the … More Shailesh S. Patel
In the summer of 1980, the Dumois family was heading out for a vacation from their residence in Tampa to a rented cottage on Anna Maria Island, a beautiful seven-mile stretch of land off the west coast of Florida. Forty-seven-year-old Dr. Juan Dumois, a pediatrician, was accompanied by his wife Maria and the couple’s four … More The Kingfish Boat Ramp Murders
It was the afternoon of Friday, November 13th, 1992, and three friends—sixteen-year-old Antonia Gómez Rodriguez, better known as Toñi; fifteen-year-old María Deseada Hernández Folch, better known as Desirée; and fifteen-year-old Miriam García Iborra—met up at the home of a fourth friend, a girl named Esther Diez, in the town of Alcàsser, in Valencia. Toni, Desirée, … More The Alcàsser Girls
The year of 1979 would be less than a week old before an appalling quadruple child murder took place in a small home in Singapore. Tan Kuen Chai and Lee Mei Ying were a hard-working couple who lived in a one-room flat in the Geylang Bahru subzone of Kallang, Singapore. They ran a small business, … More The Tan Children, aka the Geylang Bahru Family Murders
Thirty-one-year-old Stuart Lubbock, a meat factory supervisor and father of two, was spending the night of Friday, March 30th, 2001 partying with some friends. At a club called Millennium in Harlow, Essex, he happened to run into Michael Barrymore, a rather famous TV host and comedian, and at some point during the night, Barrymore invited … More Stuart Lubbock
Pamela Werner was the adopted daughter of Edward Theodore Chalmers Werner, a retired British diplomat who had remained in the Chinese capital after his retirement, becoming an expert in the language and culture of the country and often lecturing at Peking University. Though his wife Gladys Ravenshaw had died in 1922, E.T.C. Werner had stepped … More Pamela Werner
August 3rd, 1990 was a Friday, and just as he usually did, Peter Heron headed out for his job at GE Stiller Transport, a haulage firm in the town of Darlington in northeast England. His wife, forty-four-year-old Ann Heron, was off work that day, and had been shopping with a friend that morning, though she … More Ann Heron: The Beauty in the Bikini Murder
As winter of 1998 descended, a brilliant and promising young woman would be viciously slain in the street near the campus of one of the most prestigious universities in the world. Suzanne Jovin was twenty-one years old, a senior majoring in political science and international studies at Yale University in Connecticut. She had been born … More Suzanne Jovin
In the late autumn of 1971, the presumed first victim of a child killer who seemingly had a peculiar method for choosing his targets would turn up in Rochester, New York. It was the afternoon of Tuesday, November 16th. Ten-year-old Carmen Colón left the home on Brown Street she shared with her grandparents and began … More The Alphabet Murders, aka The Double Initial Killings
