Riley Fox (2001 - 2004)

Riley Fox (March 31, 2001 – June 6, 2004) was a three-year-old American girl who was reported missing in Wilmington, Illinois. Later that same day the girl was found dead in Forsythe Woods County Forest Preserve, a public park that was just a few miles from the family’s residence. The girl was found in the […]

Michelle Garvey (1967 - 1982)

Michelle Garvey went missing from New London, Connecticut, presumably after running away from home, on June 1, 1982, at the age of fourteen. She was believed to have intended to return to her birth state, New Jersey, or to North Carolina. She had a previous history of running away, according to the National Center for […]

Erica Green (1997 - 2001)

Erica Michelle Marie Green (May 15, 1997 – April 28, 2001) was a three-year-old murder victim discovered on April 28, 2001, in Kansas City, Missouri, who remained unidentified (and known as Precious Doe) until May 5, 2005. The girl had been murdered and decapitated (between 12 and 48 hours prior to discovery). The body was […]

Bobby Greenlease (1947 - 1953)

Bobby Greenlease was said to be a trusting boy. According to John Heidenry, whose book Zero at the Bone: The Playboy, the Prostitute, and the Murder of Bobby Greenlease, is an account of the case, kidnapper Bonnie Heady said that from the moment she appeared at his school (claiming to be a relative taking him […]

Tina Harmon (1969 - 1981)

Tina Harmon (born June 9, 1969 – October 29, 1981) was a 12-year-old American girl who was abducted, raped and murdered on October 29, 1981 after being dropped off in Lodi, Ohio. After the discovery of her body, she was later buried at the Maple Mound Cemetery. One man was originally convicted of the victim’s […]

Yusef Hawkins (1973 - 1989)

Yusef Hawkins had gone to Bensonhurst that night with three friends to inquire about a used 1982 Pontiac automobile that was for sale. The group’s attackers had been lying in wait for either African-American or Latino youths they believed had dated a neighborhood girl. Hawkins and his friends walked onto the ambushers’ block unaware of […]

Shauna Howe (1981 - 1992)

Shauna Howe was an American 11-year-old girl whose October 1992 rape and murder received much media attention in Pennsylvania for more than ten years. Shauna Howe was walking home from a Girl Scouts Halloween party in Oil City, Pennsylvania and was two blocks from home when she was abducted at the corner of West First and […]

Adrianna Hutto (1999 - 2007)

Adrianna Hutto was a 7-year-old American girl that lived in Esto, Florida. During the investigation police discovered that Adrianna had been diagnosed with ADHD and Lewis stated that while she initially had trouble bonding with her daughter, her affection for Adrianna had grown over time. Investigators also found that neither Adrianna or A.J. appeared to have […]

Megan Kanka (1986 - 1994)

Jesse Timmendequas lured Megan Kanka into his house, raped her, and then killed her from strangulation with a belt. He then placed her body in nearby Mercer County Park. The next day, he confessed to investigators and led police to the site. Evidence included bloodstains, hair, and fiber samples, as well as a bite mark matching […]

Polly Klaas (1981 - 1993)

On October 1, 1993, Polly Klaas and two friends were having a slumber party. Late in the evening, Richard Allen Davis entered their bedroom, carrying a knife. He tied both friends up, pulled pillowcases over their heads and told them to count to 1,000. He then kidnapped the weeping Polly Klaas. Over the next two months, […]

April Lacy (1982 - 1996)

April Lacy was born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. She grew up in a poor family who used both drugs and alcohol and was often estranged from them, as she frequently stayed at a friend’s house. She had a younger brother who had since been removed from her parent’s custody. April had a dysfunctional relationship with […]

Nadine Lockwood (1991 - 1996)

Nadine Lockwood (September 1991 – August 31, 1996) was a child from Washington Heights, New York City who was murdered by her mother. Nadine was systematically starved to death by her mother, Carla Lockwood, who admitted to police that she hated the little girl, and specifically singled her out for abuse. She kept Nadine, whom she […]

John Couey (1958 - 2009)

John Couey had an extensive criminal record that included 24 arrests for burglary, carrying a concealed weapon without a permit, and indecent exposure. During a house burglary in 1978, Couey was accused of grabbing a girl in her bedroom, placing his hand over her mouth, and kissing her. Couey was sentenced to 10 years in […]

Jessica Lunsford (1995 - 2005)

Couey stated in an audio/videotaped confession that he had abducted, raped, and murdered Jessica Lunsford. A judge ruled on June 30, 2006 that Couey’s confession was inadmissible in court because when it was recorded police had not granted Couey’s requests for a lawyer, thereby rendering the confession invalid and unreliable under the Fifth and Sixth […]

Nicholas Markowitz (1984 - 2000)

Nicholas Markowitz lived in West Hills, Los Angeles with his parents, Jeff and Susan Markowitz. The feud between Nicholas’ older half-brother, Ben Markowitz, and Jesse James Hollywood, a mid-level drug dealer, began over an alleged $1,200 debt owed to Hollywood by Markowitz. On August 6, 2000, Hollywood, and his friends Jesse Rugge, and William Skidmore […]

Lisa Millican (1969 - 1982)

On September 25, 1982, Lisa Millican was on a shopping outing at the Riverbend Mall in Rome, Georgia. She was with other residents of the Ethel Harpst Home, a facility for neglected and abused girls and boys located in Cedartown, Georgia. Separated from her group, Millican was coerced from the mall’s gaming arcade by Alvin […]

Martha Moxley (1960 - 1975)

On the evening of October 30, 1975, Martha Moxley left with friends to attend a Halloween party at the Skakel home. According to friends, Moxley began flirting with and eventually kissed Thomas Skakel, Michael’s brother. Martha Moxley was last seen “falling together behind the fence” with Thomas Skakel near the pool in the Skakel backyard […]

Destiny Norton (2000 - 2006)

Destiny Norton (November 30, 2000 – July 16, 2006) was a victim of kidnapping and murder. Until her death, she lived in Salt Lake City, Utah. On July 16, 2006, she disappeared from her home. Her body was found fewer than 100 feet from her home in the basement of her neighbor, 20-year-old Craig Roger Gregerson. She […]

David Hennessy (1858 - 1890)

David Hennessy joined the New Orleans police force as a messenger in 1870. While only a teenager, he caught two adult thieves in the act, beat them with his bare hands, and dragged them to the police station. He made detective at the age of 20. With his cousin Michael Hennessy, he arrested the notorious Italian […]

David Gunn (1945 - 1993)

David Gunn (November 16, 1945 – March 10, 1993) was an American physician. He received his bachelor’s degree from Vanderbilt University and earned his M.D. at the University of Kentucky. Gunn moved to Brewton, Alabama, after his residency, choosing to provide OB/GYN and abortion services in rural America. David Gunn was murdered in Pensacola, Florida, by […]

Derwin Brown (1954 - 2000)

Derwin Brown was a 23-year veteran of the DeKalb County Police Department when he was elected to the position of Sheriff on a platform of cleaning up the corruption and graft that had historically troubled the DeKalb County Sheriff’s Office. On December 15, 2000, former Deputy Melvin Walker shot Brown twelve times with a TEC-9 handgun […]

Ángel Maturino Reséndiz (1959 - 2006)

By illegally jumping on and off trains both within and across Mexico, Canada and the United States, generally crossing borders illegally, Ángel Maturino Reséndiz was able to evade authorities for a considerable time. He also had no fixed address. US government records show that he had been deported to Mexico at least four times since […]

John Britton (1925 - 1994)

John Britton (May 6, 1925 – July 29, 1994) was an American physician. He was murdered in Pensacola, Florida, by anti-abortion extremist Paul Jennings Hill. Britton’s death was the second assassination of a Pensacola abortion provider in under a year and a half; he had replaced David Gunn after the latter’s 1993 murder by another […]

Alan Berg (1934 - 1984)

Alan Berg worked at a shoe store and later opened a clothing store in Denver where he met KGMC-AM talk show host Laurence Gross. Impressed with Berg, Gross made him a guest on several occasions. When Gross left KGMC to take a job in San Diego, California, he requested that Alan Berg be named his […]

Rulon Allred (1906 - 1977)

Having turned away from the polygamous religion of his father and grandfather as a young man, Rulon Allred’s decision to take plural wives came in his twenties following what he described as a vision; the decision resulted in the estrangement of his first wife, Katherine. Allred began to assume greater responsibilities in the Short Creek, Arizona, […]

Cleo Noel (1918 - 1973)

Born in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Cleo Noel spent his formative years in Moberly, Missouri. He attended Moberly Junior College and then University of Missouri, receiving a B.A. in History in 1939 and a M.A. in the same subject in 1940. Noel worked briefly as an educator, teaching American History at the University of Missouri before joining […]

Daniel Pearl (1963 - 2002)

Following a trip to the Soviet Union, China and Europe, Daniel Pearl started his professional journalism career at the North Adams Transcript and The Berkshire Eagle in western Massachusetts. From there he moved to the San Francisco Business Times. In 1990 Pearl moved to the Atlanta bureau of the Wall Street Journal, and moved again in […]

George Polk (1913 - 1948)

During World War II, George Polk enlisted with a Naval Construction Battalion. After the invasion of Guadalcanal, the first element of Construction Unit Base 1 (CUB-1), an advance fuel and supply base, landed on 16 August 1942. This element was commanded by Ensign George W. Polk, USNR, and consisted of five officers and 118 enlisted […]

Stanley Rother (1935 - 1981)

Stanley Rother was born on March 27, 1935, the son of Franz and Gertrude Rother, who had a farm near Okarche, Oklahoma. He grew up to be a strong, young man, adept at the many tasks required on the farm. Nonetheless, after completing high school, he declared his calling to the priesthood. To prepare for […]

Allen Schindler (1969 - 1992)

Schindler was from a naval family in Chicago Heights, Illinois and was serving as a radioman on the amphibious assault ship USS Belleau Wood in Sasebo, Nagasaki. According to several of his friends, Schindler had complained repeatedly of anti-gay harassment to his chain of command in March and April 1992, citing incidents such as the gluing-shut […]