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The Freeway Phantom and Washington DC’s Forgotten Serial Killer
The Capital in 1971 Washington DC in the spring of 1971 was a city at war with itself. On May 3rd and 4th, less than two weeks after the first… Read more.
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The Redhead Murders and the Killer Who Rode the Interstates
The Interstate as Crime Scene In the 1970s and 1980s, the American interstate highway system was one of the great enablers of violent crime that nobody had thought to account… Read more.
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Gerald Stano and the Forty-One Women Who Disappeared Along Florida’s Roads
He was not born Gerald Stano. He was born Paul Zeininger on September 12, 1951, in Schenectady, New York, the fifth child of a woman who appears in the record… Read more.
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Harold Shipman and the 215 Patients
A Childhood in Nottingham Harold Frederick Shipman was born on January 14, 1946, in Nottingham, into a working-class family his father a lorry driver, his mother a woman of fierce… Read more.
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Timothy Evans, John Christie, and the House on Rillington Place
A Street in Notting Hill Rillington Place was a short, narrow cul-de-sac in Notting Hill, west London a working-class pocket of the city in the years just after the Second… Read more.
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Mary Ann Cotton and the Twenty Years Nobody Noticed
A Village Girl from Low Moorsley She was born Mary Ann Robson on the last day of October, 1832, in the village of Low Moorsley in County Durham a place… Read more.
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The Guildford Four: How Britain Jailed Four Innocent People and Spent Fifteen Years Pretending It Hadn’t
The Horse & Groom pub on North Street, Guildford, was busy on the evening of Saturday, October 5, 1974. It was a regular haunt for soldiers stationed at Pirbright Barracks… Read more.
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The Murder of Teresita Basa – The Voice from the Grave
By any measure, Teresita Basa was not the kind of person murder happened to. Born in 1929 in the Philippines to an aristocratic family, she was educated, refined, and deeply… Read more.
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The Disappearance of Lisa Irwin: The Baby Who Vanished in the Night
In the early hours of October 4, 2011, 10-month-old Lisa Irwin disappeared from her crib in Kansas City, Missouri. Her parents were home. The door was unlocked. And by morning,… Read more.
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The Disappearance of Branson Perry: A Vanishing in Broad Daylight
On April 11, 2001, 20-year-old Branson Perry stepped outside his home in Skidmore, Missouri and was never seen again. No struggle. No witnesses. No confirmed sightings. Just… gone. In a… Read more.
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