In the early weeks of 1969, in the eastern United States, eleven-year-old Debra Horn was walking to a school bus stop in Allenstown, New Hampshire with her brother on the morning of January 29th. As she trudged along, she suddenly slipped and fell on the ice. Complaining that she had injured her neck in the … More Debra Horn
In June of 1968, the wealthy Robison family was heading for their beautiful cabin in the Blisswood Resort on the shores of Lake Michigan to begin their long summer vacation. It is not known on what exact date the family arrived at their cottage near Good Hart; all that is known for certain is that … More The Robison Family: The Good Hart Murders
It was around a quarter past seven in the morning on Tuesday, June 11th, 1968 when fifteen-year-old Joanne Dunham left her residence at the Raiche mobile home park in Charlestown, New Hampshire, heading for the bus stop a half-mile away. The young teenager would never arrive at Fall Mountain High School that day. When Joanne … More Joanne Dunham
On July 3rd, 1979, in Bend, Oregon, a man enjoying a night out on the town would be randomly gunned down for seemingly no reason at all. Forty-nine-year-old John C. Talbott was playing pool and drinking wine at the West Side Tavern on Galveston Avenue in Bend, accompanied by his new girlfriend. The pair had … More John C. Talbott
At around nine p.m. on the night of November 2nd, 1990, seventy-three-year-old grandmother Janie Perrin was seen by neighbors walking back to her flat on Tarcoon Street in the town of Bourke, in New South Wales, Australia. The elderly woman lived alone. At some point after this sighting, Janie was attacked in her home by … More Janie Perrin
On Tuesday, September 27th, 1966, six-year-old Allen Redston left school at 3pm, accompanied by a friend. On their way home, they stopped by a local shop to buy popsicles, then both boys continued on to the Redston house, located in Curtin, a suburb of Canberra, Australia. Once there, Allen’s mother gave her son some money … More Allen Redston
The Sims family had recently moved to Tallahassee, Florida from their former home in Meridian, Mississippi, and were already a beloved and well-respected clan in their middle-class neighborhood. Forty-two-year-old Dr. Robert Sims was the Director of Data Processing for the Florida Department of Education, and his thirty-four-year-old wife Helen served as church secretary and pianist … More The Sims Family
It was April 16th, 1968, and the Arellano family was taking a two-hundred-mile road trip from their home in Villa de Fuente, Mexico to the town of San Angelo, Texas, where a relative had just had a baby. The traveling clan consisted of twenty-six-year-old Juan Manuel, his twenty-five-year-old wife Maria, the couple’s three children—five-year-old Manuel … More The Arellano Family
On the morning of Friday, March 22nd, 1968, twenty-five-year-old Geraldine Lempke Maggert was at the apartment in Cedar Rapids, Iowa that she shared with her four-year-old daughter Richine. Geraldine and her husband Richard had divorced in mid-1967, after which Richard had moved to Ithaca, New York, and Geraldine had taken a job as a secretary … More Geraldine Lempke Maggert
Seventy-six-year-old Andrew “Andy” Hatges, a Greek immigrant who had come to the United States at the age of eighteen and subsequently served in the military before opening his first grocery store in 1962, was a much-loved fixture in Mason City. By 1968, he was running the West Vu Market on Fourth Street, and lived alone … More Andy Hatges
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