Category: Crime Mysteries
The Pearce family murder 1991 POLICE have been searching for Stuart Pearce since January 6, 1991 – the same day his family was found murdered in the burnt-out remains of their Parafield Gardens house. The murders shocked the city with…
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…
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,…