Category: Crime Mysteries
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…
On January 10, 1977, five-foot two-inch, Roxene Roggasch was found dead, dumped near Fairfax, Calif. After receiving an anonymous phone call, the police drove to the road where the tipster’s car had stalled and found the petite, freckled redhead buried…
Young, college-aged men plied with booze are probably among the most reckless human beings on the planet. But retired NYPD detectives Kevin Gannon and Anthony Duarte believe that there may be more than just teenage irresponsibility behind a string of…
The Cleveland torso murders may have been the work of the first serial killer in United States history. One day in September of 1935, in the Kingsbury Run area of Cleveland, Ohio, two bodies were found in the bushes. Police…
One of the strangest unexplained crime mysteries of all time – The Hinterkaifeck Mystery This is the shocking story of the murders of six people at the Hinterkaifeck farmstead. Hinterkaifeck, a small farmstead situated between the Bavarian towns of…
THE CIRCLEVILLE LETTER WRITER MYSTERY Details: In 1976, several Circleville residents were receiving strange letters detailing personal information about their lives. Bus driver Mary Gillespie was accused of a supposedly non-existent affair with a school official. The writer then…
$17.3 million The Loomis Fargo Bank Robbery was the $17.3 million cash robbery of the Charlotte, North Carolina, regional office vault of Loomis Fargo & Company on the evening of October 4, 1997, by armored car driver and vault supervisor David Scott Ghantt. An FBI criminal investigation (which became international in scope) ultimately…
For nearly four decades, anyone driving down Route 16 near Fayetteville, West Virginia, could see a billboard bearing the grainy images of five children, all dark-haired and solemn-eyed, their names and ages—Maurice, 14; Martha 12; Louis, 9; Jennie, 8; Betty,…
“She thought the nightmare was over,” Amanda Knox’s lawyer, Carlo dalla Vedova, said soon after today’s Supreme Court verdict overturning her murder acquittal was read out. But instead the young American must continue the struggle to clear her name more…
Between 1964 and 1965 six women were found dead in and around the River Thames. All of them were prostitutes, all had been strangled and all were naked, leading to their description as the ‘Nude Murders.’ The first victim was…
Bonnie and Clyde, 1930-1934, $ stolen unknown Arguably the most famous (and infamous) bank robbers in history, there is no definitive tally of exactly how much Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow stole. What we do know is that, in the…
Everyone remembers the old time gangsters! but how much did they get away with ? Butch Cassidy’s run-ins with the law were not limited to bank robbery. Throughout his career Cassidy made headlines for looting trains and ranches along a…
