DAUNTING AND DISTURBING CRIMES

JACK THE RIPPER

Possibly the most famous unsolved crime, this English serial killer

has haunted the collective imagination for more than a century.

HINTERKAIFECK MURDERS

Hinterkaifeck is a small town in Bavaria, Germany where a family

was brutally murdered in 1922. The family’s neighbours

reported that several days prior to the attack the father had

mentioned that he noticed tracks in the snow leading from the

forest to the family’s home but the tracks didn’t lead back

to the forest. Apparently he had also had mentioned sounds

in the attic, but this was all reported to police after the murder.

VILLISCA AXE MURDERS

On the night of June 9, 1912, the Moore family was bludgeoned to

death with an axe in the small town of Villisca, Iowa. 

One suspect was tried twice but acquitted.

ANNECY SHOOTINGS

High in the French Alps, nearly the entire family of Iraqi-born

British tourist Saad al-Hilli was killed by a sniper in

2012. Nobody has been convicted.

TEXARKANA MOONLIGHT MURDERS

In 1946 the city of Texarkana was terrorized by a killer who

struck in the middle of the night over a span of 10 weeks.

It even led to a movie called the

“The Town That Dreaded Sundown”.

ISDAL WOMAN

Possibly Norway’s greatest mystery, this unidentified woman

was found dead in the Isdalen Valley near the city of Bergen.

Her passport was burned, her fingerprints had been sanded

and any possible piece of identifying evidence had been

eliminated. The mystery remains unsolved.

BOY IN THE BOX

This is the name given to an unidentified murder victim

between the ages of 4 and 6 whose naked and battered

body was found in the Fox Chase section of Philadelphia,

Pennsylvania in 1957. He is known as America’s Unknown

Child and his identity has never been confirmed.

COLONIAL PARKWAY KILLER

The Colonial Parkway Killer was a serial killer believed to have

murdered at least 8 people along the Colonial Parkway in

Virginia between 1986 and 1989. Three couples were

murdered and one is missing/presumed dead.