It was an ordinary morning in Helena, Montana for nineteen-year-old Pamela Dorrington on February 17th, 1968. Pamela slept in her second story apartment, her black lab nearby, as her cousin and roommate left for her shift at the hospital. Pam’s roommate would return that afternoon to find Pam gone.

The vanishing of Pamela Dorrington would spur a massive search for the nineteen-year-old, but four months would pass without any clue as to what had happened to the young woman. The worst possible answer would arrive when a man found Pamela’s mutilated torso floating in the Missouri River north of Helena.

Fifty-three years would pass without an arrest in Pamela’s case. Resolution finally appeared in December of 2021 when Courtney Atlas, Pam’s former landlord, confessed to murdering and dismembering her in 1968.

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It was a chilly spring day on May 8th, 2002 when a farmer drove onto his wooded property in Ottowa County, Michigan. It was an area where he grew and harvested blueberries. As he drove through the property he made a chilling discovery. A burned body lay in a trunk in an area of scorched forest. The murder victim would remain unidentified for more than a decade. When his name was at long last known a horrendous murder plot would be revealed.

Roberto Caraballo died at the hands of his wife Beverly McCallum, his step-daughter Dineane Ducharme, and Dineane’s friend Chris McMillan.

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She looked like an ordinary housewife, a mother, a grandmother. Full bodied, always smiling as she prepared dinners and baked pies. But the innocent appearance of Nannie Doss belied a much darker, much uglier persona. Nannie was a murderess, a woman who killed not only callously, but casually, eliminating husbands and members of her own family with total disregard for human life.

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It was Sunday, April 12th, 1992 when nineteen-year-old Amanda Davies left her home in Dansville, Michigan to meet a friend. She would never return home. Eleven days later her brutally murdered body would be found in an isolated location in Mason, Michigan.

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It’s been fifty two years, more than five decades, since a terrible mystery that continues to haunt a small northern Michigan town occurred.

It was Halloween day, October 31st 1969, when 16 year old Patricia Spencer and 15 year old Pamela Hobley walked away from Oscoda High school in Oscoda, Michigan. They had fun plans for the evening, which included the Oscoda Owls homecoming football game and a Halloween party. The girls would not attend either event and after getting a ride into downtown Oscoda, they would never be seen again.

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It was an unseasonably warm day on March 13th, 1996 when 25-year-old Danielle Shinaver finished work and prepared for an evening hanging out with friends at her new apartment. Danielle’s life had not been easy, but the tide was turning and things were looking up. However, sometime in the early morning hours of March 14th, 1996 a person entered Danielle’s apartment and savagely beat her to death. Her murder remains unsolved.

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It was the kind of crime that lingered, that ripped apart families, that left detectives sleepless and wondering.

It was October 28th, 1994, just three days before Halloween when the bodies of twenty-three-year-old Stacy Ann Falcon-Dewey and her three-year-old son Jacob were found shot and discarded in the middle of an isolated street in Renton, Washington. Though their murderer would eventually be discovered through the use of DNA, little justice would come for Stacy and Jacob.

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It was December 7th, 1993, weeks away from Christmas when eighteen-year-old Rosie Larner climbed into a car in the cold, early morning hours in Lansing Michigan. She had no reason to be afraid. She was with friends, people she loved and trusted.

She did not know she was hours away from breathing her blast breath, and that her brutal murder would send shock waves through the community of Lansing, Michigan and change her families lives forever.

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It was a spring Sunday on April 18th, 1943 when four boys wandered into Hagley Wood in Worcestershire, England. They had no idea they were about to stumble upon a crime scene that would mystify the world for decades to come.

Hidden inside a strange looking tree known as a wych elm was the body of a woman. This woman's identity still remains a mystery. 

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On June 30th, 1987 22-year-old Anita Carlson had a lot to be excited about. Two months before she’d graduated with honors from Bemidji State University with a degree in communications and she’d already been offered a job at a television station. The upcoming weekend was an exciting time for residents in Bemidji. It was the fourth of July and many people celebrated by visiting the Water Carnival.

Anita had no reason to suspect her future was anything but bright. Sadly, her promising life would come to a bitter end when she abducted from Pete’s Place West, a convenience store where she was working the night shift. A week later her body would be discovered in a heavily wooded area.

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