Category: Crime Mysteries
Lauren Spierer, a 20-year-old Indiana University sophomore, disappeared after a night of partying with friends on June 3, 2011 in downtown Bloomington. It was the last time anyone saw her. On June 3, 2011, 20-year-old Indiana University student…
It has been more than four decades since a 22-year old graduate student from Penn State University died mysteriously. Betsy Ruth Aardsma was born on 11th July 1947, she was a resident in Holland, Michigan. After completing her high schooling…
The Hippie Trail Back in the mid 1970’s the original hippie trail between Europe and South Asia, mainly through Iran, Afghanistan, Pakistan, India, and Nepal was in its hey day. Thousands of young “long hairs” would travel as cheaply…
The Cleveland torso murders may have been the work of the first serial killer in United States history. The TORSO MURDERS, committed between Sept. 1935 and Aug. 1938, were believed to be serial killings. Most of the bodies were discovered in…
Herman Webster Mudgett – better known under the name of Dr. Henry Howard Holmes, was one of the first documented American serial killers. In Chicago at the time of the 1893 World’s Fair, Holmes opened a very strange hotel which…
Dorothy Jane Scott was a single mother who was always willing to lend a helping hand. She was a devout Christian and an extremely hard worker. Out of the blue, Dorothy started receiving very strange phone calls. At times he…
Most people are familiar with the basic plot of Robert Louis Stevenson’s The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Few people realize, however, that there was a real life Dr. Hyde who also mixed dangerous chemicals and changed…
The twin cities of Texarkana, Texas, and Texarkana, Arkansas, have only had one reported case of serial murder, and it was a case that gripped the region in fear for several months in 1946. The attacks came at night on…
In the early hours of June 17, 1959, two police officers walking their beat in the suburbs of London made a gruesome discovery. There in a park lay the body of a young woman, tucked inside a patch of tall…
Murders of Abigail Williams and Liberty German On February 13, 2017, 13-year-old Abigail J. “Abby” Williams and 14-year-old Liberty Rose Lynn “Libby” German were dropped off by German’s older sister, Kelsi German, at a trail-head on County Road 300 North,…
It was a cold February day in 2004 when UMass Amherst student Maura Murray took a spontaneous trip toward the White Mountains. She told no one where she was going when she emptied her bank account, packed up her things,…
In 2011, in France the entire De Ligonnes family, except for the father, Xavier Dupont de Ligonnes, was murdered in their sleep. Even the two family dogs were killed with what was believed to be a silenced .22 rifle. After…