December 23 - The Murder of Paul Logan
On December 23, 1993, 25-year-old takeaway driver Paul Logan left a Chinese restaurant in Consett, England, expecting to deliver a holiday meal. The order had come in for a remote farmhouse outside Sh...
23 Dec 20258min
December 22 - The Bernhard Goetz New York City Subway Shooting
On this day in 1984, a seemingly ordinary subway ride in New York City turned into one of the most polarizing acts of violence in modern American history. When 37-year-old Bernhard Goetz was approache...
22 Dec 20258min
December 21 - The Lockerbie Bombing
On December 21, 1988, Pan Am Flight 103 took off from London’s Heathrow Airport, bound for New York and Detroit, carrying 259 people—many of them heading home for the holidays. Just 38 minutes later, ...
21 Dec 202510min
December 20 - The Abduction and Murder of Jonelle Matthews
On the night of December 20, 1984, 12-year-old Jonelle Matthews returned home from a Christmas choir performance in Greeley, Colorado — and vanished before her father got home. Her shoes were by the h...
20 Dec 20257min
December 19 – The Murder of Michelle Martinko
On a cold night in December 1979, 18-year-old high school senior Michelle Martinko attended a choir banquet, stopped by the brand-new Westdale Mall in Cedar Rapids, Iowa — and never came home. The nex...
18 Dec 20258min
December 18 - The Disappearance of Heather Elvis
In the early morning hours of December 18, 2013, 20-year-old Heather Elvis vanished from Myrtle Beach, South Carolina. Just hours earlier, she’d gone on a first date, sent a cheerful selfie, and talke...
18 Dec 202510min
December 17 - The Abduction of Barbara Mackle
On this day in 1968, 20-year-old college student Barbara Jane Mackle was kidnapped at gunpoint from a Georgia motel room and buried alive in a homemade underground box. For more than 83 hours, she lay...
17 Dec 20259min
December 16 - The Disappearance and Murders of Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble
On December 16, 1978, 15-year-old Kerry Graham and 14-year-old Francine “Francie” Trimble walked out of their homes in Forestville, California — and vanished. For decades, their families searched for ...
16 Dec 20258min
