Missed Chances & the Coal Bunker: Sonia Forsythe
Emily G. Thompson • 19th October 2024
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Shortly after 5PM on the 12th of September, 1943, a Sedan was spotted driving erratically and meandering through Washington Blvd., barely missing a telephone pole before crashing into a bean field near Thatcher Ave. A man emerged from the wreckage wearing just a pair of white swimming trunks. He was covered in blood and stumbled into the field before collapsing in the field.
Over the course of eight months in 1984, Florida's Tampa strip was the hunting ground for sadistic serial killer, Bobby Joe Long. He was finally apprehended when 17-year-old Lisa McVey escaped after being abducted and held hostage for 26 hours.
In May of 1985, Katie Eastburn and two of her young daughters were murdered in their Fayetteville, North Carolina, home. Despite the fact police had the killer, it took 25 years for justice to be served.
Marco Tulio Flores had been sexually abused by a family friend from when he was just 9-years-old. As a teenager, he found a photograph of a 6-year-old nephew in the predator's home. The traumatic memories came flooding back and he snapped.
June 17, 1939 wasn’t an ordinary summer’s day for Parisians, nor for 17-year-old Englishman Chrisopher Lee. Decades before portraying French executioner Charles-Henri Sanson in 1989’s ‘La Revolution Francaise,’ Lee had his own close encounter with what the French called their ‘National Razor.’
Susan Smalley, 18, and Stacie Madison, 17, were best friends in their prime of life. Then on 19 March, 1988, they disappeared in Carrollton, Texas, leaving behind only Stacie's yellow Mustang convertible. What happened to them?
Jonathan Reed and his wife, Mary, were so passionately in love that when Mary died, Jonathan laid her to rest in a mausoleum in the Evergreens Cemetery, Brooklyn, and spent every last waking moment with her until his own death.
La Porte, Indiana is a small community about 70 miles southeast of Chicago and is the county seat of La Porte County. In 1993, this quaint town was rocked by the murder of local high school girl, Rayna Rison, 16.
After earning his law degree from the University of Wyoming, L. Kirk Nurmi moved to Maricopa County and began working as a Public Defender. It was in this capacity that the infamous Jodi Arias came into his life and changed his entire world.
The case of Neil Dovestone remains one of the most intriguing mysteries of modern British history, and the details are as confusing as they are tragic. What drove this elderly man to travel 4,000 miles to commit suicide on Saddleworth?
Susan Kuhnhausen's estranged husband hired a hitman to take her out. In that terrifying moment, Susan "made a decision to live."
Joseph Palczynski was a spree killer with a very violent history. He attacked a number of teenage girls before finally snapping.