What drives a person to commit murder? And why do some murders remain unsolved despite promising evidence and all the efforts of investigators? There are some murders that will stay in the public consciousness forever. Not because of their gruesome nature, their high body counts, or their despicable perpetrators, but because they are unsolved years after the crime was committed. The identity of Jack the Ripper – the man "from Hell" – is still a mystery and debated over today, more than a hundred years after the Whitechapel murders took place. More recently, the world still wonders what sick individual committed the Zodiac killings and sent taunting cryptograms to the press. And who plunged Chicago into a state of panic after it was discovered that Tylenol tablets were tampered with, containing enough cyanide to kill? Murder Mysteries is packed with crime scene photos and presents the evidence for you to examine. The world’s most notorious unsolved murders are featured within these pages. Can you solve these crimes?
WELCOME TO MURDER MYSTERIES
Real Crime Murder Mysteries
I KNOW WHO BUTCHERED THE BLACK DAHLIA • IN JANUARY 1947, ASPIRING HOLLYWOOD STARLET ELIZABETH SHORT BECAME THE BLACK DAHLIA, THE MOST FAMOUS UNSOLVED MURDER VICTIM IN LOS ANGELES HISTORY. HAS LA COP STEVE HODEL SOLVED THIS 70-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY?
‘MY FATHER’S THE KILLER’ • STEVE HODEL IS A FORMER HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE DETECTIVE TURNED WRITER. HE BELIEVES HIS FATHER BUTCHERED BETH
THE MOST INCREDIBLE MURDER • THE SAVAGERY WROUGHT AGAINST BETH SHORT’S BISECTED BODY IS UNPARALLELED IN REAL CRIME HISTORY
THE INVESTIGATION • IN THEIR SEARCH FOR ANSWERS IN THIS SENSATIONAL CASE, THE POLICE FOUND A WILLING AND ABLE ALLY IN THE PRESS
BLACK DAHLIA AVENGER LETTERS
NEWSPAPERS GO WILD
WHO ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS? • THE CASE REMAINS UNSOLVED, BUT THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO A FEW POTENTIAL SUSPECTS
THE AFTERMATH • THE LAPD FACED IMMENSE PRESSURE TO SOLVE THE CASE, BUT TO NO AVAIL
THE LONG ISLAND SERIAL KILLER • BY SHEER CHANCE, POLICE UNEARTHED A MASS OF UNMARKED GRAVES ALONG GILGO BEACH ON LONG ISLAND, NEW YORK. BUT 20 YEARS ON AND NEITHER FATE NOR POLICE WORK HAS DELIVERED THE MURDERER
IT TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE • A ONE-TIME SUSPECT HAD HIS OWN THEORIES ABOUT THE IDENTITY OF THE MURDERER
OAK BEACH DRIFTER? • A BOOK ABOUT THE LONG ISLAND BEACH ATTRACTED SUSPICION
FINDING THE FALLEN • POLICE ARE STILL UNABLE TO IDENTIFY FIVE OF THE TEN VICTIMS DISCOVERED ALONG GILGO BEACH
THE INVESTIGATION • THE HUNT FOR SHANNAN WAS STILL ON, WOULD HER BODY PROVIDE ANSWERS OR MORE QUESTIONS?
WHO ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS? • THE CASE REMAINS UNSOLVED, BUT THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO A FEW POTENTIAL SUSPECTS
THE AFTERMATH • WITH THE TRAIL TURNING COLD, ALL POLICE CAN DO IS WAIT FOR NEW EVIDENCE TO COME TO LIGHT
WHO KILLED THE GORILLA LADY? • RENOWNED ZOOLOGIST DIAN FOSSEY TREATED THE GORILLAS SHE STUDIED LIKE HER OWN CHILDREN. IT SEEMS SHE WOULD DO OR GIVE ANYTHING FOR THEM - INCLUDING HER LIFE
IN HER OWN WORDS • HAD DIAN FOSSEY BEEN AWARE THAT HER LIFE WAS IN DANGER BEFORE SHE WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED?
THE INVESTIGATION • SOMEONE CLOSE TO DIAN WAS CHARGED WITH HER MURDER, BUT WAS LIKELY A SCAPEGOAT FOR THE PERPETRATORS OF A DEEPER AND MORE SINISTER PLOT THAN THE RWANDAN COURTS SUGGESTED
‘MONSIEUR ZED’ • A SHADY FIGURE WAS THRUST INTO THE SPOTLIGHT ALMOST A DECADE AFTER DIAN’S DEATH AND NAMED AS HER KILLER
WHO ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS? • THE CASE REMAINS UNSOLVED, BUT THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO A FEW POTENTIAL SUSPECTS
THE AFTERMATH • DIAN’S KILLER WALKS FREE THANKS TO THE RWANDAN GOVERNMENT’S ALLEGED LACK OF INTEREST IN THE CASE
THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS • SINCE 1969 VULNERABLE WOMEN, TEENS AND...