Category: Crime Mysteries
The very strange case of Christine and Walter Collins On a very sunny afternoon on 10th March 1928, 9-year-old Walter Collins mysteriously disappeared after his mother, Christine, a telephone operator, gave him a dime to spend on admission to the…
BACKGROUND The Oklahoma Girl Scout Murders is still to this day an unsolved crime in rural Mayes County, Oklahoma. On a rainy, late-spring night in 1977, three girls—ages 8, 9, and 10, were murdered and left in the woods near…
The Taman Shud Case, also known as the Mystery of the Somerton Man, is an unsolved case of an unidentified man found dead at 6:30 a.m., 1 December 1948, on Somerton beach in Adelaide, South Australia. A body is found…
The case of the Mateo Slasher The Gypsy Hill killings or Gypsy Hill murders are a group of five unsolved homicides of young women in San Mateo County, California during early 1976. The culprit was dubbed the San Mateo slasher.…
Sometime around midnight between Sunday, June 9, and Monday, June 10, 1912, a person or persons entered a modest house in Villisca, Iowa, and bludgeoned to death eight people sleeping there, including two adults and six children aged 5 through…
Joseph Messenger and Valerie Lowe were arrested in 1921 for breaking into an army warehouse and stealing boots and overcoats to the value of 29 pounds 3 shillings. The following year, when this photograph was taken, they were charged with…
The Iraq National Museum in Baghdad was looted in April 2003, shortly after the American-led forces took the city. An estimated 15,000 artifacts from the ancient civilizations of Babylon and Mesopotamia were stolen: culprits are believed to have included agents…
A woman’s body is found in London. DNA turns up a hit, yet the suspect apparently died weeks before the alleged victim. Here, forensic scientist Dr Mike Silverman tells the story of one of the strangest cases of his career.…
The Strange Disappearance Of Belle Elmore The Odd Story: Belle Elmore was the stage name of aspiring opera singer Cora Crippen, unhappy wife of homeopathic Dr. Hawley Crippen. Sadly, her greatest fame was not achieved on the stage, but posthumously…
During the early months of 1901, twenty-seven burglaries were committed in Pittsburg, and the modus operandi of these bold thieves convinced the authorities that the crimes were all committed by the same persons. In the early morning of April 12…
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…
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…
