Lynette Joy Dawson (née Simms; born 1948) was an Australian woman who disappeared on or about 8 January 1982,[1] leaving two daughters and her husband, former rugby league footballer Chris Dawson.[2] Her whereabouts are unknown, but two coronial inquests concluded that she had been murdered.[3] On 30 August 2022, Chris Dawson was convicted of Lynette’s … Read more
Kenyatta “KeKe” Odom (August 28, 1983[1]–1988), formerly known as Christmas Doe and Ware County Jane Doe, was a formerly unidentified murder victim whose decomposed remains were found in Millwood, Georgia on December 21, 1988. Her body was discovered inside a suitcase filled with cement that was placed inside of a television console and discarded on … Read more
Michel Paul Fourniret (4 April 1942 – 10 May 2021)[2] was a French serial killer who confessed to killing 12 people in France and Belgium between 1987 and 2003. After he was arrested in June 2003 for the attempted kidnapping of a teenage girl in Ciney,[3] Fourniret confessed in 2004 to killing nine people, eight … Read more
The murder of Melissa Ann Tremblay is an unsolved child murder which occurred in Lawrence, Massachusetts, on the afternoon of September 11, 1988, in which an eleven-year-old girl from Salem, New Hampshire, was beaten, then murdered by three stab wounds to her torso before her body was intentionally left upon a section of the Boston … Read more
Janine Kerrie Balding was a homicide victim who was abducted, raped and murdered by a homeless gang of five (four youths and an adult) on 8 September 1988 in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia. Balding’s murder is often compared to the 1986 murder of Sydney nurse Anita Cobby. Early lifeBalding was born on 7 October … Read more
The murder of Jaclyn Marie Dowaliby is an unsolved child murder which occurred in Midlothian, Illinois, on September 10, 1988, when a seven-year-old girl was abducted from her bedroom and murdered by an unknown individual or individuals. Her strangled body was discovered in a section of wasteland in Blue Island four days later. Dowaliby’s mother … Read more
John Ingram Brandenburg Jr.[38] (formerly known as Brad) was the fourth and final murder victim discovered at the abandoned farmhouse.[22] This victim was determined to be a white male most likely aged between seventeen and twenty-three years old.[5][n 4] He had medium length, reddish or auburn, wavy hair, weighed between 130 and 180 pounds[1] and was most likely between five feet eleven … Read more
Herbert Richard Baumeister (April 7, 1947 – July 3, 1996) was an American businessman and serial killer who came under suspicion of murdering over a dozen men in the early-to-mid 1990s, most of whom were last seen at gay bars in central Indiana. Police ultimately found the remains of eleven men, eight identified, on Baumeister’s … Read more
Wayne Nathan Nance (October 18, 1955 – September 4, 1986), known as The Missoula Mauler, was an American serial killer in the state of Montana.[1][2] Nance was shot and killed while committing a home invasion of a co-worker’s residence; thus, Nance was never formally charged, tried, or convicted of any murder. Authorities reported that physical … Read more
Alisha Ann Heinrich, previously known as “Baby Jane” and “Delta Dawn”, was a formerly unidentified American child murder victim whose body was found in Moss Point, Mississippi, in December 1982. The child — aged approximately 18 months — was partially smothered before she was thrown alive from the eastbound Interstate 10 bridge into the Escatawpa River, where she ultimately drowned. Her body was recovered between 36 and 48 hours … Read more