Nearly two decades removed from the notoriously ghastly prostitute slayings perpetrated by Jack the Ripper, the year of 1907 would see the murder of a working girl in eerily similar circumstances. In more recent times, a few Ripper researchers have attempted to link the infamous Whitechapel killings with the much later case widely known in … More Emily Dimmock: The Camden Town Murder
Thirty-six-year-old Glenna Sharp, more commonly known as Sue, was originally from Connecticut, but in late 1980, she left her husband James, and subsequently moved with their five children—fifteen-year-old Johnny, fourteen-year-old Sheila, twelve-year-old Tina, ten-year-old Rick, and five-year-old Greg—to cabin twenty-eight at the Keddie Resort in northern California. Sue chose this location in particular because it … More The Keddie Murders
Most everyone with an interest in true crime has no doubt heard of the notorious Villisca axe murders, in which eight people were brutally dispatched by an unknown assailant sometime during the night and early morning of June 9th and 10th of 1912. Though many suspects have been put forth and investigated over the decades, … More The Villisca Axe Murders and Beyond
It was somewhat late on the night of Friday, August 26th, 1960 when thirty-eight-year-old single mother and office clerk Dorothy Coon set out on an unknown errand from the home in Des Moines, Iowa that she shared with her two teenaged children. Nancy, nineteen, and Dennis, seventeen, had both already gone to bed when their … More Dorothy Coon
Fifteen-year-old Eleanor “Nora” Fuller had been born in China but later lived in San Francisco with her mother and three siblings. The previous year had been a rough one for the Fullers, as Nora‘s parents had recently divorced. Money was tight, and Nora was obliged to quit school in 1902 and begin looking for work. … More Nora Fuller
St. Augustine, Florida was founded by the Spanish in 1565, and is considered the oldest continually occupied European settlement in the United States. Because of its age and colorful history involving bloody battles and pirate raids, the town is packed full of marvelous eerieness: the Huguenot cemetery, crumbling and atmospheric, like something out of a … More Athalia Ponsell Lindsley & Frances Bemis
In 1997, in the northeastern United States, a truly bizarre murder mystery would begin to unfold whose every detail seems to suggest ever more improbable scenarios and whose outcome appears just as muddled today as it did when it first occurred. Fifty-year-old Judy Smith was a successful home-care nurse who lived in a wealthy suburb … More Judy Smith
In the summer and autumn of 1994, in a wooded park in Ohio, two teenage girls would be found dead more than three months apart, but only eight-hundred yards from one another. To this day, it is unclear whether their murders were related, and both cases have tragically gone cold. Fourteen-year-old Sarah Rae Boehm lived … More Sarah Rae Boehm & Kathryn Menendez
It was around nine p.m. on the evening of Tuesday, February 10th, 1987 when thirty-seven-year-old Peggy Hettrick left her job at a clothing store called the Fashion Bar at the Foothills Mall in Fort Collins, Colorado, and began walking back to her nearby apartment. Her regular roommate, Barb Kohler, was out of town, but another … More Peggy Hettrick
In the last summer of 1982, a little girl would be abducted only a few feet from her home and be found dead weeks later. Her murder would become instrumental in the establishment of a more codified law enforcement response to missing children cases, and serve as the basis for the 1983 passage of the … More Rachael Runyan
