In April 1981, three people were bludgeoned and stabbed to death in the tiny town of Keddie, California-and a fourth, a 12-year-old girl, was kidnapped. Parts of her skeleton were found three years later. The murders were never solved.
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A treasure trove of information
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30 Years later
In 1982 someone laced bottles of Tylenol capsules with potassium cyanide and put the tampered bottles back on the shelf killing 7 people. While there have been a few suspects no one knows for sure who actually did it.
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Laurie Dann angle
The inside job angle
Basic overview
In October 1949, Jean Spangler, a 26-year-old aspiring actress, left her home and never returned. Her purse turned up 2 days later, with a cryptic note in it; 2 days after that, a very famous movie star called the LAPD out of the blue to deny that he knew anything about it, or her. Jean was never found, where did she go and what happened to her?
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A huge repository of information
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Jeans IMDB page
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Jack the Ripper terrorized London in 1888, 5 women are attributed to having died horrifically by his hand but no one is certain if that number is correct. Who was he, why did he do it, and where did he go? These are questions that have plagued everyone who has looked into this mystery for the last 120 years.
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Casebook: Jack the Ripper
Richard Jones’ Ripper resource
The Wiki page of just the suspects
Take the Ripper walking tour if you’re in London
For 18 months in the years 1918-19, a serial killer terrorized the citizens of New Orleans, his favored method of murder earning him a grisly nickname: “The Axeman”. The murders have never been solved.
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Tons of details
From the Wiki
A simpler overview