Twenty-one-year-old Mima McKim-Hill worked for the Capricornia Regional Electricity Board in Rockhampton, Queensland, Australia, and on March 9th, 1967, she got into a company car with her boss, Isobel Hare, for the more than sixty-mile drive to Gladstone. Mima’s friend and colleague, Shirley Eldridge, was actually supposed to be the one accompanying Isobel that day, … More Mima McKim-Hill
It was Sunday, May 17th, 1953, and seventeen-year-old Kyllikki Saari had been attending a prayer meeting in the town of Isojoki, Finland, not far from her home. After the meeting was over, Kyllikki got on her bicycle and pedaled off down the road. She was seen by a man on a maintenance crew less than … More Kyllikki Saari
It was the afternoon of December 30th, 1957, and seventeen-year-old Ann Noblett had been at a dance class in the town of Harpenden, in Hertfordshire, England. After the class ended, she boarded the Green Line bus that would carry her back to her home in Marshalls Heath. Witnesses saw her get off the bus at … More Ann Noblett: The Deep Freeze Murder
A few days before Christmas of 1961, in Liverpool, England, the appalling murder of a young woman in her own home stirred up lurid speculations about fake medical doctors, leather-jacketed strangers, and violent pagan cults. Maureen Dutton was twenty-seven years old, and resided on Thingwall Road in the Liverpool suburb of Knotty Ash with her … More Maureen Ann Dutton: The Knotty Ash Murder
Bella Wright was a twenty-one-year-old factory girl, the eldest daughter of a working-class family in the village of Little Stretton, near Leicester. She could often be seen riding her bicycle along the five-mile path that led between her family’s cottage and the factory where she worked. But on the early evening of July 5th, Bella … More Bella Wright: The Green Bicycle Case
In late February of 1957, in the woods near Fox Chase, Philadelphia, a young man out checking his illegal muskrat traps came across a horrific find stuffed inside a large cardboard box. Not wanting to alert the police to his own unlawful behavior, however, he decided to leave well enough alone. A few days later, … More The Boy in the Box
Twenty-two-year old Rose Harsent was evidently a popular girl around Peasenhall, a small parish in the county of Suffolk. She worked as a domestic servant at Providence House, the residence of Baptist elder Deacon William Crisp and his family, and she apparently had no shortage of suitors, who would send her dirty poems and graphic … More Rose Harsent: The Peasenhall Murder
Megan Curl was a kind, outgoing, twenty-six-year-old woman, the kind of person who never let her mild mental disability get in the way of living her life. Though she had been bullied by classmates as a child, and had suffered through an abusive marriage, she retained her sunny outlook and natural openness and trust of … More Megan Curl
In the late winter of 2001, a woman in a rural town in Minnesota would vanish from her workplace during one of the coldest nights of the year. Fifty-year-old Rachel Anthony had worked at Ultimate Liquors in Pine River, Minnesota for about a year and a half, often handling the closing shift alone. The town, … More Rachel Anthony
As autumn descended in England, on the evening of September 7th, 1963, forty-three-year-old pub landlord George Wilson was sitting in his establishment—which was also his residence—with his wife Betty, their two children, their dog Blackie, and three other individuals: pub regular Mr. Smith, and a couple named Arthur and Irene Ash, who were learning how … More George Wilson: The Pretty Windows Murder
