Ozark, Alabama, July 31–August 1, 1999 two seventeen-year-old best friends got lost on the way home from a party, stopped at a gas station for directions, drove away into the Alabama night, and were found the next morning shot in the head in the trunk of their car.
Knoxville, Tennessee, January 12, 1995 a nineteen-year-old was lured from a Job Corps dormitory and tortured to death over the course of an hour by a peer who brought back a piece of her skull as a souvenir, ate breakfast with it in her pocket, and cried in court at her death sentence before writing a letter that evening calling it unfair
Rehoboth, Massachusetts, August 6–7, 2025 an eighteen-year-old sent her sister a text message that read “if I die, it was Greg” with her phone at four percent battery.
Spanish Fork, Utah, January 16, 2014 a police officer everyone called a teddy bear shot his wife, two children, and mother-in-law with his service weapon, then lay down beside them and turned the gun on himself.
Stamford, Connecticut, November 8, 2002 a Harvard-educated pharmaceutical executive was stabbed to death in her townhouse by a woman so consumed by obsession that she then tried to kill her own husband.
America’s most prolific convicted serial killer killed for nearly twenty years while living an ordinary suburban life, passing two polygraph tests, and evading a task force that had his name from the beginning
Houston, Texas, 1970–1973 a candy factory worker who murdered at least twenty-nine boys and young men with the help of two teenage accomplices, whose crimes were hidden in plain sight by a police department that kept writing “runaway” on missing persons reports while a community’s children disappeared
Doncaster to London, September 14, 2007 a fourteen-year-old left home as if heading to school, bought a one-way ticket to London, walked out of King’s Cross Station, and has not been seen since