Margarette Laverne Mullins Mankin (July 16, 1927 – Nov 2, 1987) was found dead on Nov. 2, 1987. Mankin (60) was murdered inside her home in North Duncanville, Texas. She was found by her husband Avery Adair Mankin (then 65) in the doorway between the garage and the kitchen. Adair had just returned home from […]
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Vanessa Lynn Buss (DOB – Oct 7, 1985)
Vanessa Lynn Buss (DOB – Oct 7, 1985) was shot to death in Houston, Texas. She was twenty-four years old. There is hardly anything online about her murder so it is fitting to make hers the Case of the Month for March 2020. The Case The shooting happened on Monday night (Oct 7, 1985) outside […]
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Janet Eva Roberson Gregston
On August 21, 1984 around 415pm, police found Janet Eva Roberson Gregston (Dec 20, 1955 – Aug 21, 1984) murdered about two miles east of US 385 (Andrews Highway) on the North East Loop 338, Ector County, Texas. She had been stabbed twenty times and her throat was slashed. She was also pregnant. Her case […]
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Unidentified: Conroe Lake John Doe
The Montgomery County Sheriff’s Office are asking for help in the case of an unidentified man I call the Conroe Lake John Doe. On August 3, 1986, his body was found floating in Conroe’s Crater Lake. He was bound to two concrete cinder blocks with an electrical cord. Authorities think that the unidentified man was white, approx. […]
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The 1976 cold case of Eunice Shrivers Lowe
On Sept. 17, 1976, bus ticket clerk Eunice Shrivers Lowe (Nov 11, 1920 – Sep 17, 1976) was killed while at the work at the Continental Railways Station in Bay City, in the southwest part of Houston, Texas. Eunice, a white woman of 55, was beaten with a pickax, stabbed with a broken glass bottle, […]
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Harris County Deputy Sheriff Edward “Edd”Williams
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 […]
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The cold case of Walter Harrison Arnold, Sr.
Walter Harrison Arnold, Sr. (Aug. 31, 1940 – Dec. 4, 2008) was found dead on Dec. 4, 2008 in his bedroom at home in the 700 block of Morninglory Lane (Victoria, Texas). He was 68 years old. He had just learned he was cancer-free. Arnold, Sr. liked hunting, fishing, cooking, and play cards. He was […]
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Missing: Elizabeth Ann Pfeifer
Elizabeth Ann Pfeifer went missing today in 1986. Her case is still unsolved. She was last seen in Katy, Texas, April 12, 1986. She lived with her parents and sister. Elizabeth’s case is in the NamUs database. Elizabeth left home in the early evening to go to a party with five friends in the northern part of […]
