Henryk Siwiak‘s homicide is the only unsolved homicide on record in New York City from September 11, 2001. The City doesn’t include the over 3000 deaths from the terrorist attacks in their official crime statistics. Case overview Henryk Siwiak (46) saw the terrorist attack on the Twin Towers on September 11, 2001. He was in […]
Hazel Juanita Hanna and Cynthia Lorraine Bell
November 12, 2018 By
UPDATE Nov 12, 2018: one of my readers sent me some newspaper articles with more details and pictures identifying each girl, just scroll down. _____ Hazel Juanita Hanna and Cynthia Lorraine Bell were murdered in Missouri, 1976. There is shockingly little online. If you have links to more newspaper articles about this case, please contact […]
Herman Edward Wilhelm Luhrsen
November 1, 2018 By
One of my readers mentioned the unsolved case of Herman Edward Wilhelm Luhrsen (Dec 4, 1886 – Feb 14, 1937). He said it was strange, with multiple angles, and without a good web presence. He kindly summarized the case for me in an email. I got curious and tried to find more articles in the public […]
Dennise Jeannette Sullivan
December 1, 2017 By
Dennise Jeannette Sullivan’s is one of Utah’s oldest missing person cases. Dennise was 15 years old when she went missing under very violent circumstances. The general opinion is that she is presumed dead. This is the Case of the Month for December 2017. Note: I have seen her name spelled as Dennise and as Denise. […]
Remember Tatman and Burchfield
November 25, 2017 By
The weekend of November 25 and 26, 2017 mark the 50th and 64th anniversaries of two police officers featured on this blog: Robert Lawrence Tatman and Richard Stanley Burchfield. Both Tatman and Burchfield were killed in the line of duty. Both were shot. Both were young husbands. Both were young fathers. Robert Lawrence Tatman Champaign […]
Harris County Deputy Sheriff Edward “Edd”Williams
November 6, 2017 By
UPDATE: thanks to one of my Twitter followers I have information to add to the case. I am still working on getting sharp screenshots from old newspaper articles. Many papers have their archives hidden behind a pay wall, alas. But here is the text: Harris County Deputy Sheriff Edward “Edd”Williams was off duty when he […]
Rhonda Annette Hinson (Dec. 13, 1962 – Dec 23, 1981)
August 1, 2017 By
In the early morning hours of Dec. 23, 1981, less than a mile from her North Carolina home, Rhonda Hinson (19) died from a single gunshot. She was the daughter of Bobby and Judy Hinson and sister to Robert. The bullet came from a high-powered rifle. It traveled through the trunk of her car, through […]
Steven Alfred Harris (1949-1988)
July 1, 2017 By
On August 24, 1988, Steven Alfred Harris, Sr. “was found on Olio Road in Hamilton county near Geist Reservoir, Indiana. The Harris’ had been fishing and someone shot the elder Harris as they were walking back to their car.” This information comes from the website of the Indiana State Police (ISP). I have several problems […]
