THE LAST BLOG!! Throughout this blog I hope everyone has had a great time reading the different gruesome, horrific, but interesting stories thus far. As a wrap up of the blog I couldn’t think of a better way to conclude it than to write about the WORST serial killers in the United States. SO EXCITING!!! Read More…
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Cold Case Files: Killing of Jody Loomis
This week I will not be talking about a cold case. rather a cold case that was solved last year after 48 years of being cold. On August 23, 1972, Jody Loomis was to a horse stable near what is now Bothell-Everett Highway and 164th Street in Mill Creek. She would never be seen alive Read More…
Cold Case Files: The Yogurt Shop Murders
Last week I talked about the disappearance and murders of the Grime’s sisters. This week I am going to talk about the Austin yogurt shop murders. Late at night on December 6, 1991 there was smoke coming from the I Can’t Believe It’s Yogurt! shop on West Anderson Lane in Austin Texas. Inside were the brutally Read More…
Cold Case Files: The Grimes Sisters
Last week I talked about the Dardeen family murders. This week I will be talking about the murders of the Grimes sisters. On December 28, 1956 in Chicago, Illinois two sisters by the names of Barbara and Patricia Grimes age 15 and 12 went to see an Elvis Presley film Love Me Tender at the Read More…
Cold Case Files: Dardeen Family Murders
This week I will be talking about the brutal murders of the Dardeen family. On the night of November 18, 1987 police went into the mobile home of Russell Keith Dardeen after he had failed to show up to work that day. Inside, police found Keith’s wife, Ruby Elaine Dardeen and their son Peter beaten Read More…
Cold Case Files: What Happened to D.B. Cooper?
On the afternoon of November 24, 1971, a nondescript man calling himself Dan Cooper approached the counter of Northwest Orient Airlines in Portland, Oregon. He used cash to buy a one-way ticket on Flight #305, bound for Seattle, Washington. Cooper who was in his mid-40s was a quiet man dressed in a white shirt and Read More…
Cold Case Files: Jack the Ripper
For this blog series I will be continuing it from last semester on cold cases from around the world as well as famous killers from around the world! Jack the Ripper was an unidentified serial killer active in the largely impoverished areas in and around the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The killer was also named the Whitechapel Murderer and the Leather Read More…
Cold Case Files: Smiley Face Killers
For my last blog, I decided to end it with the best one yet, multiple killers! In the 1990s and early 2000s, there was a spree of college-age male killings. One of the most recent killings was 24-year-old, William Hurley disappeared on the night of October 8th, 2009. 6 days later his body was found Read More…
Cold Case Files: Disappearance of Tara Calico
On September 20, 1988, Tara Leigh Calico disappeared near her home in Belen, New Mexico. It is said that she was most likely kidnapped. Not even a year later in July 1989, there was a polaroid picture that was found in a convenience store parking lot of an unidentified young woman and boy, gagged and Read More…
Cold Case Files: The Tylenol Tampering’s
In 1982 there were a series of poisoning deaths in the Chicago metropolitan area from drug tampering to Tylenol. All of the victims had taken Tylenol-branded acetaminophen capsules that were laced with potassium cyanide. There were a total of 7 deaths in the original poisonings, but there were several more deaths in copycat crimes. If Read More…