Category: Crime Mysteries
The Texas Chainsaw Massacre In 1974, director Tobe Hooper revolutionized horror with his film “inspired by a true story,” THE TEXAS CHAINSAW MASSACRE. Almost immediately after the film’s release, rumors began to circulate that there was an actual chainsaw wielding…
Texarkana, a small town that straddles the state line between Texas and Arkansas, is also known as The Town That Dreaded Sundown. The mysterious Moonlight Murders rocked the sleepy southern town of Texarkana in 1946. Police on either side of…
On the morning of August 23, 1973, an escaped convict crossed the streets of Sweden’s capital city and entered a bustling bank, the Sveriges Kreditbanken, on Stockholm’s upscale Norrmalmstorg square. From underneath the folded jacket he carried in his arms,…
Ted Bundy Ted Bundy was an American serial killer who killed at least 30 women. It’s speculated that the body count is actually much higher, possibly even in the hundreds. Toward the end of his life, he bartered details about…
The Strange Crime On the night of Boxing Day 1898, Michael Murphy, 29, and his sisters, Norah, 27, and Ellen, 18, were returning home in a sulky to their parents’ farm outside Gatton. They had been to a cancelled country…
London Millennium Dome, 2000 Using a JCB digger to ram down fences, four robbers attempted to steal De Beers diamonds worth over £350m, including the 203 carat De Beers Millennium Star, from a display at the Millenium Dome on 7…
The Plymouth Mail robbery, or what the press called “The Great Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery” was, at that point in time, the largest cash robbery of all time In August 1962, a team of criminals dressed as police officers and…
It was one of the most spectacular crimes of the past years. In March 2017, the gold coin “Big Maple Leaf” from the Berlin Bode Museum was stolen. 100 kilos, worth 3.5 million euros. Early on the morning of March…
It was 12:45 on the afternoon of August 26th,1995, when Heather Teague was abducted while sunbathing on the Kentucky side of the Ohio River, just across from Newburgh, IN. A witness on the Indiana side was looking along the beach…
It was Ted Conrad’s 20th birthday and he was going to do it up right.He came back from his lunch break with a brown paper sack that contained a bottle of whiskey and a carton of cigarettes. He told anyone…
Between 2002 and 2005, a serial killer who became known as the West Mesa Bone Collector murdered and buried 11 women in the outskirts of Albuquerque, New Mexico. To this day, law enforcement officials have been unable to discover the…
Disappeared in: 2000 Reward offered: Undisclosed As Oxford’s revellers were welcoming in the Millenium, a criminal used the opportunity to break into the city’s Ashmolean Museum and steal Cezanne’s painting, View of Auvers-sur-Oise. The painting is still unlocated, although no…
