At around quarter to seven p.m. on Friday, May 15th, 1970, eighteen-year-old Olive Walker left her home on the outskirts of Rotorua, New Zealand to walk to her sister Mary’s house a short distance away. She had agreed to baby-sit Mary’s children that evening. At about seven-fifty p.m., Olive was spotted near the Odeon Theatre … More Olive Walker
It was August 7th, 1969, and workers along I-93 near Salem, New Hampshire spotted what appeared to be human remains in a small pit of water on the side of the highway not far from the Pelham Road exit ramp. Examination of the corpse demonstrated that the individual was a white male between twenty-eight and … More Winston Richard Morris: Salem Unidentified Male
On the first day of February 1968, in West Alton, Missouri, a fisherman cast his line into a lake near Highway 67, and reeled in a macabre mystery. At the end of the man’s hook was an inexpensive black suitcase, sunk in about three feet of water in Lake Alton, four yards from the shore. … More Jane Doe West Alton
In 1969, on the campus of one of America’s most prestigious universities, an academically accomplished young woman would meet her end in a bizarre murder that had possible aspects of a ritualistic burial ceremony. And less than a month after that, another woman who also had connections to the same college was found murdered less … More Jane Britton and Ada Bean
September 10th, 1971 was a Friday, and in Farmington, Maine, fifteen-year-old Judith E. Hand left Mount Blue Junior High School in the afternoon, and proceeded to walk to a relative’s house not far away for a baby-sitting job. Judith, a shy, conscientious young girl, came from a large family who had been financially struggling since … More Judith Hand
In the winter of 1971, three hunters in Galloway Township, New Jersey would stumble across a murdered young woman whose identity is still unknown. The skeleton, found on December 6th in the woods off the Garden State Parkway, appeared to be that of a petite, auburn-haired female between the ages of twelve and eighteen years … More Atlantic County Jane Doe
It was June 13th, 1972, and a fourteen-year-old boy taking his bike to a gas station to put air in the tires happened across a gruesome scene: a dead, naked little boy, floating in Massey Creek near Lorton, Virginia. The child was African-American, somewhere between three and six years old, and appeared to have been … More Fairfax County John Doe
Twenty-two-year-old Amala Ruth De Vere Whelan had only moved into her new place in Maida Vale, West London, three weeks before. Prior to that, she had lived and worked in Camden, at the Bar Lotus on Regents Park Road. She was a popular, socially outgoing young woman, involved in the local art scene and an … More Amala Whelan
In the late winter of 1966, in Edinburgh, Scotland, fifty-five-year-old businessman David McMenigall was dining alone at the trendy L’Aperitif restaurant, a place to see and be seen among the city’s creative elite. David, who came from somewhat humble beginnings, had worked his way up as an appliance salesman before eventually starting his own successful … More David McMenigall
On the day before Thanksgiving in the town of South Strabane, Pennsylvania, twenty-one-year-old Susan Rush left her job at the Murphy’s department store located at the Washington Mall and headed out toward her car. It was a little past six p.m., and presumably, Susan was looking forward to spending the holiday with her family. She … More Susan Rush
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