May 14, 1948: the three-year-old’s brutal murder that begins an unusual investigation.
Three-year-old June Devaney, recovering from pneumonia at Queen’s Park Hospital in Blackburn, England, is kidnapped from her bed on this day, May 14 1948. Nurses discovered her missing at 1:20 […]
#May 5, 2004: Human remains found in suitcase near Virginia Beach.
On this day, a suitcase holding what is later identified as the partial remains of William McGuire, a 39-year-old Navy veteran and computer analyst is pulled from the water near […]
Burke & Hare Murder Dolls: the mystery of the dolls in miniature coffins
William Burke and William Hare were two serial killers who lived and operated in Edinburgh, Scotland, from November 1827 to October 1828. The duo, with the complicity of their companions, […]
Joe Metheny: the serial killer who made his victims into hamburgers.
Ironically known in the 90s as “Tiny”, as he was tall and overweight, Joe Metheny’ story began with the search for his runaway wife and son, but ended up on […]
The haunted Fox Tower at Dongbianmen – China
We are in Beijing, China. The Fox Tower at Dongbianmen (chinese 东便门 ) has been said to be haunted from pretty much the moment it was founded in 1564. Initially […]
#March 26, 1726: one of the most grisly murder cases in English criminal history
A report on this day, March 26 1726 that a dismembered body had been discovered in London led to what was one of the most grisly murder cases in the […]
The last execution in Iceland: a mysterious murder case that’s intrigued a country for nearly 200 years
For centuries, some small farms near the water on Iceland’s Vatnsnes peninsula are scattered among the grassy fields and rocky hills, more or less content to be living at the […]
#March 25, 1887: The Rahway murder of the “Unknown Woman”.
March 25th, 1887 was a day that changed the town of Rahway, New Jersey, forever. In the cold hours of the early morning, a group of four brothers were walking […]
Lee Chapel Cemetery – Virginia, and the county’s grisliest murder
The Lee Chapel was a Methodist Episcopalian church that sat at the intersection of the former Pohick Road and Mill Road (now Fairfax County Parkway and Lee Chapel Road). It […]
The almost forgotten story of Timber Ridge Road, Illinois and its murders~
If many people have heard the stories of the ghost at the curve in Timber Ridge Road, most are unaware of the details about what happened there. As usual, every […]
