Thursday, March 26th, 1998 was the last day of school before Easter break in Frankfurt, Germany. At a little before eight o’clock that morning, thirteen-year-old Tristan Brübach got up for classes; his father Bernd had left for work nearly four hours before, as usual. Tristan was being raised by his father and grandmother, after enduring … More Tristan Brübach
The Walker Family The last few days of 1959 would be tragically notable for the shocking massacre of an entire family that recalled the infamous slaughter at the Clutter farm in Kansas only a little more than a month before. In fact, recent developments may point to a connection between the case that inspired Truman … More Three Family Massacres
Twenty-eight-year-old Carolyn Montgomery lived in North Dallas, Texas with her son Dequin, who was six years old in 1971. She shared a flat in the Sherwood Forest Apartments complex with another female roommate, who also worked at the same upscale nightclub where Carolyn was employed as a cocktail waitress. After a long shift, Carolyn came … More Carolyn Montgomery
In the early 1950s, a vicious murder in Australia would grab country-wide headlines, mainly due to the random brutality of the killing, and the well-liked and beautiful young victim. To this day, the murder is the oldest cold case in Queensland, and is often cited as the crime that robbed the sleepy town of Brisbane … More Betty Shanks
The Wallace case has been called “the classic English whodunnit,” and though the details seem tailor-made for fiction, they were all frustratingly real. At the heart of the mystery stood fifty-two-year-old insurance agent and chess enthusiast William Herbert Wallace, who lived at 29 Wolverton Street, Anfield, Liverpool, with his wife of seventeen years, Julia. The … More The “Impossible” Murder: The Wallace Case
In the first week of March 2000, in a house on the French Riviera, a troubled entertainer would be found dead in her bed, and although the cause very well may have been an accident or even suicide, rumors persist that she might have been the victim of a murder committed by someone very close … More Lolo Ferrari
In Columbus, Ohio, in 1966, an apparently random murder of a man associated with Ohio State University may have been connected with the victim’s prominence in the civil rights movement. Clergyman and theologian Robert Warren Spike had long been a fixture among activist communities fighting for racial equality. Having started his career in Greenwich Village, … More Robert Warren Spike
In the autumn of 1944, a privileged young person with dreams of Hollywood stardom would find her hopes brought to an abrupt end by a brutal and apparently random murder. Georgette Bauerdorf was born into a wealthy family, the daughter of a New York City oil tycoon. Both she and her sister Connie were given … More Georgette Bauerdorf
In May of 2010, a young woman named Shannan Gilbert made a frantic phone call to 911, insisting that someone was after her. Shannan, an escort who advertised on Craigslist, was last seen fleeing from a client’s home in Oak Beach, New York, and subsequently disappeared. During the search for her, though, authorities stumbled across … More The Long Island Serial Killer
In 1984, the murder of a small child in the rural backwaters of France would kick off an almost unbelievable saga of family jealousy, suicide, and murderous revenge that would come to be known as the Grégory Affair. Four-year-old Grégory Villemin lived with his parents, Christine and Jean-Marie, in the small, working-class village of Lepanges, … More Grégory Villemin
