“You killed Paddy, and hit him on the head. Smacked him on the fucken nostrils, smacked him on the fucken nostrils … with me claw hammer,” Owen Laurie, a resident of Larrimah, is heard singing to himself on a listening device. The authorities had bugged his place days after Paddy Moriarty’s disappearance. But despite this […]
On the evening of August 1, 1989, Ronald (Ronnie) Paul Jack walked into the First Litre Pub, which was four blocks from the rented house on Strathcona Avenue, British Columbia, where he lived with his wife and two sons. He was 26 years old and out of work due to a back injury at the […]
At around 11 am on April 1, 2014, 21-year-old Kris Kremers and 22-year-old Lisanne Froon bid their host family in Boquete, Panama, goodbye and set off for the forested slopes surrounding the Baru volcano. The sky over Boquete was deceptively clear that Tuesday morning. Kris and Lisanne laced their boots, grabbed two bottles of water […]
On the morning of August 20, 1989, Jose and Kitty Menendez, along with their children Lyle and Erik, went on a chartered shark-fishing boat trip in Marina Del Rey. According to the boat’s captain, Joseph Culp, 21-year-old Lyle and 18-year-old Erik spent the entire time isolated at the front of the boat. The weather and […]
Johana Casas was a 19-year-old girl with modelling dreams in a small town. Unfortunately, she didn’t live to see them fulfilled. She was found dead near her home town, and the prime suspects were her current boyfriend and her ex! The Early Life Of Johana Casas Johana grew up in Pico Truncado, a small town […]
16-year-old Skylar Neese peered outside excitedly from her bedroom window at her family’s apartment in Star City, West Virginia. It was midnight on a Friday in July 2012, and she could not hear any sound from anywhere else in the house. Skylar slowly pushed her window open and began to scramble through it. She was […]
She tied you to a kitchen chair She broke your throne and cut your hair And from your lips, she drew the Hallelujah Fleet Street’s Fever Dream British tabloids would find the perfect headline in Joyce McKinney in August 1977. To say it was absurd would be an understatement, for if there was some secret […]
On May 27, 2017, after a night out with friends, 21-year-old Hannah Cornelius offered to drive her fellow classmate, Cheslin Marsh, to his flat on Jan Cilliers Street in Stellenbosch, in the Western Cape. The two had spent that Friday evening at local hangouts, and Cheslin, who was also 21, wanted to call it a […]
On September 21, 2001, Sherri and her husband, Gregory Malarik, were hosting a large family sleepover at their home in Cantonment, Florida. The house was packed with their children, ages 3 to 11, along with several other nieces and nephews. There was pizza, video games, and children running everywhere in the house. Sherri was also […]
On March 2, 1998, 10-year-old Natasha Kampusch left her family home in Vienna after arguing with her mother, Brigita Sirny, and set off for school. The household was already tense. Brigita was angry that her estranged husband, Ludwig Koch, had brought Natasha home late the previous night after a weekend visit. Ludwig and Brigitta were […]