Teekah was a Black and Native American girl, approximately 3 feet tall and 35 pounds, with black hair, brown eyes, and pierced ears. She was wearing a green Tweety Bird sweatshirt, white sweatpants, and red, white, and black Air Jordan shoes. Her sisters described her as a “mature” toddler who never left her mother’s side. She slept with her mother every night. source
Darla was 25, an IRS analyst in Little Rock known for never missing a shift without calling ahead. Her 2-year-old daughter Leslie was found alone in the apartment the next morning. Ex-husband Barry Harper spent the following week with bandaged hands remodeling his bathroom. He was never charged. source
Stephanie Sempell, 15, left Boca Raton in March 1976 for Key West with an unidentified male companion. Her bones were found nine months later with a knotted T-shirt containing her hair tangled inside the knot. source
Both women survived, though their injuries were severe. Terri Jentz spent nearly two decades investigating the attack herself, identifying a local man named Dirk Duran whom townspeople had suspected from the start.
His hatchet was never found. Duran failed two polygraph tests but was never charged. Jentz published her investigation in the 2006 book Strange Piece of Paradise. Dirk Duran died in 2010. The case remains officially unsolved. source
That afternoon, Norine had taken her children to have their photo taken with Santa Claus. The Pathmark Supermarket was less than a mile from her home. When her car was discovered the next morning, it was parked far from the store entrance.
Her husband John, a New York City firefighter, refused to allow police to search their properties.
He later had Norine declared legally deceased, remarried, and cut off her family’s access to their children. source
She was Cecilia McKitterick also known as Julia Holmes, and a dozen other names depending on which country she was in and who she needed to be.
By the time she was found, she had been dead long enough that her own identity had to be pieced together from records she had spent a lifetime burying. Her third husband, Thomas Ruttle, was found alongside her. No signs of forced entry. No obvious suspect.
A conwoman who outran law enforcement across Britain, the US, and Ireland for four decades found rotting in a farmhouse in Limerick with a man she may or may not have legally married. Source
Tera was 16, a homecoming queen who worked her family’s amusement center and kept journals she never finished. She told her sister she’d be back in 20 minutes. more details
A fruit picker found her body six days later in a dry creek bed, still in her school uniform. She had been stabbed twelve times. Three of the wounds were driven through her heart. more details
She had been beaten, sedated with chlorpromazine, strangled, and wrapped in a sheet consistent with inpatient psychiatric facility linens. A Ford Econoline van was seen nearby that morning. In 2006, semen was recovered from her clothing it led nowhere. More details
Jennifer was a seventh-grader in rural Pasco County. Classmates on the bus watched a faded blue pickup follow her down the road.
Her body was found six days later in an orange grove 10 miles away. Crum was already serving two life sentences for a near-identical attack when he was indicted for her murder in 2023.
Lloyd was $100,000 in debt and owed Michele $6,000 monthly. He spent years convincing Karrie her mother was dangerous.
When he gave the ultimatum, Karrie believed every word. She helped stage the body, lied to police, and served 14 months. Lloyd got life without parole.
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The FBI offered a $100,000 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in Brooks' death.