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…
The Alphabet Murders (also known as the Double Initial Murders) are an unsolved series of child murders which occurred between 1971 and 1973 in Rochester, New York All three victims of the Alphabet Murders were girls aged ten or eleven…
The murder of Sir Harry Oakes is a strange and unexplained mystery. His Murder still remains unsolved, and the evidence is riddled with mysteries. The young Harry Oakes was brought up in Sangerville, Maine, USA where he dreamed of becoming…
The true story of Peter Falconio and his girlfriend Joanne Lees remains one of the strangest crime events to have taken place in Australia. Falconio mysteriously disappeared in the Australian outback in July 2001, while the couple travelled around in…
The Santa Claus Bank Robbery Two days before Christmas, 1927, Santa Claus walked into the First National Bank of Cisco, Texas, followed by several delighted children who had seen him on the street. Then Santa pulled out a gun and…
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,…
Cheryl Gene Grimmer was a three-year-old toddler who was kidnapped on 12 January 1970 from Fairy Meadow Beach in Wollongong, Illawarra, New South Wales, Australia. She had been in the beach shower block when witnesses claim a man took her…
It was a busy night in Paderborn on June 20, 2006, as people filled the bars of the west German city to watch the World Cup game between England and Sweden. One of these people was Frauke Liebs, a 21-year-old…
We love a good true crime story here at cool interesting stuff, and the freaky case of Dr. Carl Tanzler is one of the best. In the 1920’s, Carl Tanzler (later known as Carl von Cosel) emigrated from Germany to…
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…
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…
