Category: Crime Mysteries
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…
THE ERDINGTON MURDERS COINCIDENCE On 27 May 1817, the body of a murder victim – 20-year-old Mary Ashford was found in a flooded sandpit at Erdington, a village lying five miles outside of Birmingham in England. Exactly 157 years afterwards…
The discovery of the strange mystery On 29 November 1970 at approximately 13:15, while hiking in the foothills of mount Ulrikens north face, in an area known as Isdalen valley, a university professor and his two young daughters came across…
INVESTIGATION During the early 1980s the Secret Service had been investigating a new counterfeit operation and had began handing out sketches of the suspect to various stores. By chance they had just left one when the clerk recognised a man…
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…
Value of gold stolen today – $322million Recovered – just $2600 The 1855 Gold Robbery On the night of 15 May 1855, three boxes containing gold belonging to Abell and Co., Spielmann, and Bult were delivered by a firm of…
In 2003 Brian Wells, a pizza delivery man, received a call to deliver a pizza to an address which later proved to be fake. When he arrived at the location, two men forced him at gunpoint to put on a…
In May 2000, Claudia Kirschhoch was an assistant editor for Frommer’s Travel Guides in New York. Following a delayed flight from Jamaica back to New York, Claudia stayed at the Beaches Resort in Negril. The last known sighting of her…
Jennifer Kesse was 24-years-old and living in Orlando Florida. She worked as a financial analyst for Central Florida Investments Timeshare Company and had recently purchased a condo. On January 23, 2006, Jennifer left work at 6 p.m. and called her…
Marjorie Viola O’Connell Jackson’s money came from her husband Chester Jackson, a businessman and shrewd investor who amassed a fortune before his death in 1970. Chester Jackson’s father, Lafayette Andrew Jackson, founded the Standard Grocery chain that grew to include…
In the 1930s Brighton became notorious for a series of “trunk murders”, when dismembered female bodies were found crammed into separate trunks at Charing Cross Station in 1927 and two more bodies at King’s Cross and Brighton stations in 1934.…
