It was the evening of Friday, January 14th, 1977, and the weather in Port Huron, Michigan had been far crueler than usual. Twenty-year-old Iris Johnston simply wanted to go down the block to the store, but was unable to get her car out of the driveway, so decided to bundle up and set out on … More Iris Johnston
Collingwood was, in 1977, a fairly safe, working-class suburb of Melbourne, Australia, and it had seemed the perfect place for longtime friends and roommates—twenty-eight-year-old high school teacher Susan Bartlett and twenty-seven-year-old mother Suzanne Armstrong—to maintain a house and raise Suzanne’s sixteen-month-old son Gregory. On the evening of January 10th, Susan’s brother and his girlfriend stopped … More Easey Street Murders: Suzanne Armstrong & Susan Bartlett
Sixteen-year-old Deborah Lynn Rosencrans was undergoing some trying family turmoil. Her parents were divorced, and her mother had been forced to work several jobs in order to make ends meet. Recently, though, Deborah’s mother had remarried, and the family was planning to move back to their former home in Orlando, Florida. Deborah, though, wanted to … More Deborah Lynn Rosencrans
Florence Broadhurst had been born in a remote, rural part of Queensland, but she apparently had much bigger ambitions than her unassuming origins would suggest. She was an accomplished singer and comedian, and parlayed these talents into a career that took her out of her humble hometown and eventually around the world. Florence opened an … More Florence Broadhurst
Twenty-four-year-old Elizabeth “Betty Jane” Berquist lived in an apartment on Seneca Street in Greenock, Pennsylvania with her two-year-old daughter Tara. Betty Jane had previously had a job as a server at the Canopy Restaurant in McKeesport while she was making her way through nursing school, but just recently she had got her first nursing position … More Elizabeth “Betty Jane” Berquist
It was Sunday, February 27th, 1978, and twenty-three-year-old Julie Campbell, a medical records clerk at the Lahey Clinic in Boston, had been spending the evening with two friends at a bar called the Plough and Stars in Cambridge, Massachusetts. After parting from her friends at around one a.m. on the morning of February 28th, Julie … More Julie Campbell
In the summer of 1969, a young teacher would mysteriously vanish, and although her remains would not be discovered for nearly thirty years, her suspected killer had possible links to at least one other case already mentioned on this site. Twenty-nine-year-old Luella Blakeslee, an avid world traveler and an alumnus of both the University of … More Luella Blakeslee
It was Wednesday, April 2nd, 1969. Seventy-six-year-old Annie Walker had been at her bank in the village of Coalville that day, withdrawing the sum of one-thousand pounds. As she headed back toward her home in nearby Heather, Leicestershire, England, it seems that someone was following her. The next day, the body of Annie Walker was … More Annie Walker
Thirty-six-year-old Massie Pittman owned the Blue Note Tavern in Davenport, Iowa, and lived alone in an apartment next door to the establishment. Massie was a widow; her husband Hubert Pittman had been murdered in 1962, only a month after their wedding. Sadly, the same fate was soon to befall the surviving member of the doomed … More Massie Pittman
Fifty-year-old widow Ada Bean had previously worked as a research secretary at Harvard, though in 1969 she was employed at the Associated Business Machine Company. She lived alone in a Harvard-owned apartment on Linnaean Street. On Wednesday, February 5th, 1969, Ada’s employer became concerned when she didn’t show up for work, and his concern only … More Ada Bean
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