In the winter of 1971, in Durham, North Carolina, two young people would go missing in what would prove to be the tragic first chapter of a true Valentine’s Day massacre. Twenty-year-old nursing student Patricia Mann and her boyfriend, nineteen-year-old North Carolina State University student Jesse McBane, were a happy, good-looking couple who had plans … More Jesse McBane and Patricia Mann
In September of 1969, as the leaves began their spectacular fall transformation in central Vermont, the beauty of the landscape would be marred by the gruesome double murder of a vacationing couple. James and Iola Hipp were retired and had planned a months-long trek from their home in Lutz, Florida up the coast into New … More James and Iola Hipp
Forty-eight-year-old Dorothy H. Miller worked for Bolick Realty in Burlington, Iowa, the only female realtor in town. On August 15th of 1969, Dorothy Miller received a phone call from a man calling himself Robert Clark and requesting a tour of an available property on Grand Street later that night. Dorothy, wary of showing houses to … More Dorothy Miller
In the summer of 1969, a hard-working North Carolina grandmother would be mercilessly stabbed to death in her home, for reasons which are still a complete enigma. Fifty-five-year-old Elizabeth Hilts Grant was a widow who had lived alone in a house on Robinhood Road in Winston-Salem since the death of her husband in 1953. The … More Elizabeth Hilts Grant
On Wednesday, July 9th, 1969, the Veach family—parents Bill and Etta, and children Billy and Patricia—were spending a quiet, normal evening at their home in Des Moines, Iowa. The kids went to bed at their usual times, but Bill and Etta stayed up until around two a.m., and nothing at all seemed amiss. The next … More Patricia Ann Veach
On December 20th, 1976, a teenage boy walking near one of the supports of the three-hundred-foot bridge spanning the Lehigh River in White Haven, Pennsylvania, came across a ghastly tableau: two open suitcases with a severed head, a torso, and a dead baby spilling out of them. A third, unopened suitcase lay nearby. When officers … More Evelyn Colon: Beth Doe
In the early days of 1977, a suspected serial killer would begin a strange run of crimes in Atlanta, Georgia. Dubbed the Lover’s Lane Killer, this individual manifested many of the same traits as the Zodiac, as well as the Phantom Killer of Texarkana, attacking random couples parked in cars and shooting them dead. The … More Atlanta Lover’s Lane Murders
On the first day of June 1975, twenty-three-year-old teacher Ellen Choate left her home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and set out for Bangor, Maine, where she was supposed to start a new job on June 2nd. At some point along her journey, she vanished without a trace. It would be more than two years before she … More Ellen Choate
On Valentine’s Day of 1978, a young girl was found slain near San Diego, California, having been subjected to brutal torture before her death. To this day, she remains unidentified, and is referred to only as San Diego County Jane Doe. The victim was white, between fourteen and eighteen years old, and stood only about … More San Diego County Jane Doe
The summer of 1977 began fading into autumn, and in New Jersey, it was almost time for college classes to begin. Twenty-five-year old Sigrid Stevenson, a graduate student in music, had just returned to the campus of Trenton State College (now known as the College of New Jersey), but found that the family she’d been … More Sigrid Stevenson
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