On February 22, 2024, Laken Riley, a 22-year-old Augusta University nursing student,[4] was attacked and murdered while she was jogging at the University of Georgia (UGA) in Athens, Georgia, United States.[5][6] Her body was found in Oconee Forest Park near Lake Herrick;[7] her death was caused by blunt force trauma and asphyxiation.[4][8] The perpetrator, José Antonio Ibarra, was a 26-year-old Venezuelan man who had entered the United States … Read more

On November 16, 2010, eighteen-year-old Joshua Wilkerson was murdered by his classmate Hermilo Moralez, who was an illegal immigrant to the United States from Belize.[1][2] Both boys were students at an alternative school for at-risk students in Pearland, Texas (a suburb of Houston).[2] Wilkerson was reported missing after his abandoned truck was located in a strip mall parking lot.[1][2] A massive search began on the morning of November 17. Moralez, … Read more

On July 1, 2015, 32-year-old Kathryn “Kate” Steinle was shot and killed while walking with her father and a friend along Pier 14 in the Embarcadero district of San Francisco. She was hit in the back by a single bullet. The man who fired the gun, José Inez García Zárate, said he had found it moments before, wrapped in cloth … Read more

Linda Perhacs (born September 21, 1943)[2] is an American psychedelic folk singer, who released her first album, Parallelograms, in 1970 to scant notice or sales.[3] The album was rediscovered by record enthusiasts and reissued numerous times beginning in 1998, growing in popularity with the rise of the New Weird America movement and the Internet. In 2014, she released a second album titled The Soul … Read more

The murder of Jacqueline Montgomery, a 15-year-old girl from Islington, North London, United Kingdom, occurred on 1 June 1975. She was murdered by Dennis McGrory, her aunt’s 28-year-old estranged partner, who was described at his trial as being “wild with rage” when he sexually assaulted, stabbed, and strangled Montgomery at her family home in Offord Road. Her body … Read more

Morgan Chauntel Nick (born September 12, 1988; disappeared June 9, 1995) is an American girl who disappeared in Alma, Arkansas, at age six. She attended a Little League Baseball game at the Wofford baseball field with her family, and was last seen by eyewitnesses tapping sand from her shoes in the parking lot, after being allowed by her mother, Colleen, to briefly catch fireflies with … Read more

Melanie Carpenter (April 22, 1971 – January 6, 1995)[1] was a Canadian 23-year-old woman who was abducted and murdered in British Columbia, on January 6, 1995.[2] Carpenter was taken from her workplace in Surrey and found dead in the Fraser Canyon several weeks later. The prime suspect, Fernand Auger, committed suicide before he could be arrested.[3][4][5][6] Disappearance On January 6, 1995, Melanie Carpenter, a 23-year-old woman from Surrey, British Columbia,[7] had received suspicious … Read more

Serena Chelsea “Serenity” McKay (September 30, 1997 – April 22 or 23, 2017) was an Indigenous woman from Manitoba, Canada, whose murder was video recorded and posted on social media—being streamed on Facebook Live, in particular.[1] McKay preferred to go by the name “Serenity”.[2] Her body was found on 23 April 2017 in Sagkeeng First Nation, northeast of Winnipeg, Manitoba. According to CBC News, two videos … Read more

On March 27, 2017, Bruno de Melo Silva Borges, a Brazilian student, disappeared after leaving his home in Rio Branco, Acre. In his bedroom, Borges left several encrypted messages, 14 handwritten books, and a statue of philosopher Giordano Bruno. The Civil Police of Acre investigated the case and Interpol was called. Borges’s disappearance received wide … Read more

Gretchen Stoughton Anthony (January 8, 1969 – March 21, 2020) was an American woman from Jupiter, Florida, who was murdered by her estranged husband, David Ethan Anthony, in the early morning hours of March 21, 2020. David Anthony had attempted to persuade Gretchen Anthony to travel with him to Costa Rica, where he believed they … Read more