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Ghosts of Highway 20
The Ghosts of Highway 20 were individuals who disappeared, or were victims of assault, rape and/or murder, along Highway 20 in the U.S. state of Oregon from the late 1970s to the early 1990s. John Arthur Ackroyd, a highway mechanic with the Oregon Department of Transportation, was a suspect in these cases. Detectives were able to prosecute the murder of Kaye Turner of 1978, for which he was sentenced to five life…
1977 · GeorgiaUnsolvedAtlanta Lover's Lane Murders
The Atlanta Lover's Lane Murders were a series of unsolved shooting attacks on three different couples in Atlanta, Georgia, in early 1977, which left three dead and three others injured. The same gun, a .38 caliber pistol, was used in all three shootings, which suggested that a single perpetrator was responsible for all three attacks. However, no suspect has ever been identified.
1963 · OregonUnsolvedDeath of Steven Crawford
Steven Alexander "Stevie" Crawford (October 2, 1960 – c. July 11, 1963) was a formerly unidentified toddler whose body was found in a reservoir in Ashland, Oregon, on July 11, 1963. He was identified in 2021 using GEDmatch.
1981 · MarylandUnsolvedSebastian Russo
Sebastian Russo (15 November 1924 – 27 February 1981) was a primary care physician from Baltimore, Maryland. He was murdered in his office in February 1981, and his case remains unsolved. After his death, he was declared "the last of the $5 doctors" in Baltimore, referring to his tendency to charge patients $5 or less for his services.
2004 · CaliforniaMissingTimothy Verne Perryman
Timothy Verne Perryman (born December 5, 1950) is a missing person. He was last seen March 28, 2004 near his home in Agoura Hills, a Los Angeles, California suburb. Tim Perryman earned his BA from USC, and at the time of his disappearance had recently earned his MBA from California Lutheran University.
Year unknown · FloridaOverturnedHubert Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams
Hubert Nathan Myers and Clifford Williams are two African American men who were served 42 years in prison after being wrongfully convicted of first degree murder and attempted murder due to eyewitness misidentification, ineffective assistance of counsel and official misconduct. They are the first exonerees freed based on an investigation by a Conviction Integrity Unit in Florida.
1953 · OhioMissingDisappearance of Ronald Tammen
Ronald Henry Tammen Jr. (born July 23, 1933) was a student at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio, who went missing on April 19, 1953. His case remains unsolved.
1985 · North CarolinaOverturned
Eastburn family murders
In May 1985, Kathryn Eastburn and her daughters, Kara and Erin, were murdered in Fayetteville, North Carolina. In 1986, United States Army Sergeant Timothy Hennis was tried and convicted for the three murders. In 1988, Hennis's conviction was overturned on appeal, and he was acquitted the following year.
2015 · FloridaMissingDisappearance of Perry Cohen and Austin Stephanos
Perry Cohen (born January 30, 2001) and Austin Stephanos (born December 1, 2000) went missing from Tequesta, Florida on July 24, 2015. The two departed together for a fishing trip and did not return after a storm hit the area. They are both believed to have died in this storm.
1975UnsolvedDenver Prostitute Killer
The Denver Prostitute Killer was an American serial killer responsible for the murder of at least 17 women and girls in Denver and its various suburbs between 1975 and 1995. In 2005, based upon results from DNA profiling, it was determined that the most likely killer was Billy Edwin Reid who was previously arrested and charged with the 1989 murder of Lannell Williams and Lisa Kelly. Reid was convicted and sentenced…
2005 · WashingtonUnsolvedDeath of Adre-Anna Jackson
Adre-Anna Anita Jackson, also spelled Adreanna or Adre'Anna was a missing person of Native American descent from Lakewood, Washington. She disappeared at age 10 while walking to school in December 2005 in "a high-crime area with a large number of registered sex offenders". Her mother had sent her out on a three-block walk not knowing school had been canceled because of snow and did not report her missing until late…
1991OverturnedJohn Bunn
John Bunn (born 1976) is an African American man wrongfully convicted of a murder committed in 1991, when he was 14. Bunn spent over 16 years in prison and nearly 12 on parole before he was exonerated in 2018. After his release, Bunn founded a nonprofit that aims to educate incarcerated youth and provide access to books to promote literacy.
1995MissingDisappearance of Donald Izzett
Donald Lee Izzett Jr., commonly referred to as "Donnie", is an American man who has been missing since May 1995 under mysterious circumstances. A young man at the time, Izzett was traveling the country after being discharged from the military for being gay. His last known contact was a Mother's Day phone call between him and his mother, Debra Izzett Skelley, on May 14, 1995.
1991 · OregonMissingDisappearance of Thomas Gibson
Thomas Dean Gibson (July 5, 1988 – disappeared March 18, 1991) is an American child who vanished from his front yard in Azalea, Oregon, under mysterious circumstances. On the morning of his disappearance, his father, Larry Gibson, a deputy sheriff of Douglas County, left the family's home to go on a jog. Before departing, he claimed to have shot at a feral cat on the property.
1938 · PennsylvaniaMissing
Disappearance of Marjorie West
Marjorie West was a four-year-old American child who went missing from McKean County, Pennsylvania on May 8, 1938. Her disappearance was heavily covered by both local and national media, but her whereabouts have never been ascertained. In 2018, The Guardian, a British daily newspaper, and the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, a nonprofit organization established by the United States Congress,…
Year unknown · AlabamaOverturnedCharles Lee Bufford
Charles Lee Bufford (born 1954) is an African-American man who was initially convicted of robbing and murdering William Roland Cooper, Jr., a probate judge in Wilcox County, Alabama, but was later retried and found not guilty. He had been sentenced to death, but his murder conviction was overturned when part of the death penalty law in Alabama was ruled unconstitutional. He was retried, but was acquitted despite his…
1995 · CaliforniaMissingDisappearance of Erin Marie Gilbert
Erin Marie Gilbert (May 4, 1971 – disappeared July 1, 1995) is an American woman who vanished while attending the Girdwood Forest Fair in Girdwood, Alaska. Gilbert, who had previously resided in California, had moved to Anchorage, Alaska, where she lived with her sister and worked as a nanny. At the time she disappeared, Gilbert was on a first date with a man, David Combs, whom she had met at a bar in Anchorage…
1988 · FloridaUnsolvedMurder of Pamela Walton
Pamela Leigh Walton (died c. July–September 1988) was a transgender woman believed to have been murdered in Clermont, Florida, in 1988. Her remains remained unidentified for nearly 37 years until March 2025.
2014 · GeorgiaUnsolvedKillings of Russell and Shirley Dermond
The murders of Russell and Shirley Dermond occurred in early May 2014 in Putnam County, Georgia, United States. The decapitated body of Russell Dermond (age 88) was found on May 6, 2014, in the garage of the house he owned on Lake Oconee. Neither his head nor his wife, Shirley (age 87), could be located in the house.
2009 · NevadaMissingDisappearance of Steven Koecher
At midday on December 13, 2009, Steven Koecher (born November 1, 1979) got out of his car, parked at the end of a cul-de-sac in the Anthem neighborhood of Henderson, Nevada, United States, an action recorded on a nearby home's security camera. After returning shortly afterwards, he retrieved something from the vehicle and walked away, with another security camera capturing his reflection in a car window. Koecher has…
2005Missing
Disappearance of Danielle Imbo and Richard Petrone Jr.
Danielle (Ottobre) Imbo and Richard A. Petrone Jr. were an American couple who disappeared together on February 19, 2005, after visiting a bar on Philadelphia's South Street. Their case remains unsolved.
1966 · MontanaMissingDisappearance of Susan Pearson
Susan Elizabeth Pearson (October 1, 1935 – disappeared March 13, 1966) was an American heiress who went missing under mysterious circumstances in Missoula, Montana. A native of Portland, Oregon, Pearson was a graduate student and instructor at the University of Montana (UM) at the time of her disappearance. She disappeared days before she was scheduled to submit her doctoral thesis, as well as administer an exam for…
2010UnsolvedSkid Row Stabber
The Skid Row Stabber is an American serial killer, responsible for the murders of 11 people in the Los Angeles neighborhood known as Skid Row, which is notorious for housing a huge number of homeless people, who are regularly subjected to victimization. The criminal's signature weapon was a knife. While a suspect named Bobby Joe Maxwell was arrested, charged, and sentenced for the murders, his conviction was…
2007 · OhioMissing
Disappearance of Ashley Summers
Ashley Nicole Summers (born June 16, 1993) was 14 years of age when she disappeared near her home in Cleveland, Ohio in early July 2007. Her whereabouts remain unknown, as there have not been any verified sightings of Summers since her disappearance.