Who Killed Little Vera Page? By Emily Thompson Vera Page, 10, was discovered strangled to death in London, in December of 1931. Police identified her killer as her neighbor, but was all as it seemed? Feb 20, 2020 • 3 min read
A Murder & A Disappearance – Chance Wackerhagen By Emily Thompson Chance Wackerhagen, 9, was visiting his father, Lee, and his father's girlfriend, Latricia, over Christmas of 1993. Police found Latricia shot dead and Chance and Lee missing. Initially, police speculated Lee had killed Latricia and fled the scene with his son. However, it was later theorized somebody else had committed the murder. Jan 29, 2020 • 3 min read
Murder at West Lodge By Patricia Thompson Ashton is famous for its annual World Conker Championship, as well as a horrific murder that is steeped in the local folklore and still to this day the subject of much speculation and discussion around dinner tables and in local drinking establishments. It was always thought that there may one day be a ‘deathbed confession’,… Jan 11, 2020 • 6 min read
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo – Catrine da Costa By Emily Thompson Catrine da Costa, 28, was a sex worker from Stockholm, Sweden. On 18 July, 1984, parts of her dismembered body were discovered in bin bags in Solna. There were two main suspects: two doctors. However, nobody was ever convicted of her brutal murder. Dec 18, 2019 • 5 min read
The Angel of the Meadow By Patricia Thompson It is now almost 10 years ago that Jane Doe was found in Manchester, England. Her skeletal remains were discovered wrapped in a carpet by construction workers on 25th January 2010, on the site of an old car park in an area known as Angel Meadows. Sep 14, 2019 • 3 min read
The Dardeen Family Murders By Emily Thompson The name “Dardeen” resonates with the residents of Ina, Southern Illinois, who think back to a gruesome quadruple murder that took place in their sleepy hamlet in the late 1980s. Life in Ina was simple. There was a store, a gas station, a firehouse, a bank, a post office and little all else. But then… Aug 28, 2019 • 5 min read
Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm? By Douglas MacGowan In April of 1943, a group of young boys discovered the skull of a woman lodged inside a Wych Elm in Hagley Woods, West Midlands. She became known as "Bella" and after the discovery, graffiti asking "Who Put Bella in the Wych Elm?" began to appear throughout the town. Jun 12, 2019 • 5 min read
Missing at the Canyon – Glen & Bessie Hyde By Patricia Thompson According to an unofficial count, almost 800 deaths have been documented at the Grand Canyon. None of these deaths have been as mysterious as the disappearance of newly married couple Glen and Bessie Hyde in the winter of 1928. Jun 5, 2019 • 5 min read
The Little Red Riding Hood Murder of Muriel Drinkwater By Emily Thompson 12-year-old Muriel Drinkwater was found shot dead in a forest nearby her home in Penllergaer, Swansea, Wales, in 1946. To this day, nobody has ever been charged with her murder. May 31, 2019 • 4 min read
Lula Lake & The Murders of Orville Steele & Carolyn Newell By Dora Robertson Orville Steele and Carolyn Newell were teenage lovers that vanished one evening while at Lula Lake. The following week, their bound bodies were discovered. Carolyn had been bound, raped, beaten & strangled. Orville had been tied to a tree and strangled. May 18, 2019 • 5 min read
