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Nearly 30 years ago the body of a teen female was found in the Arizona desert. She was unidentified, and the police department dubbed her Apache Junction Jane Doe. Finally her name and origins became known. She was only one of dozens who spend years unnamed and buried in a potter's field.
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by M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Since 1999, a trail of disappearances and the discovery of human remains littered small towns in the South. Was it sheer coincidence or the work of one killer?
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
On March 28, 1963 authorities found the decomposed and nearly nude body of a teenager in a desolate farm field 2.5 miles southwest of Alexander, North Dakota.
By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories
Starting in 1968, men started to show up dead floating in the Detroit River, especially in the month of June. Even after so many years they all remain unnamed. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was a freezing January morning in 1937, only months before Japan occupied the Forbidden City of Peking, when Pamela Werner's savagely, mutilated body was found near the Fox Tower just outside the city's Legation Quarter where the foreign embassies were located.
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In 1970 Carol Anne Fitzmaurice, a 23-year-old nurse, without any known enemies was savagely stabbed to death in her home. Both her family and the investigators in the case, not only question the identity of the killer but the motive as well. Despite the passage of more than 50 years both of these questions have never been answered. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Beware the insane, because they might have lost their mind, but not the capacity to deceive. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In 1998, a priest was brutally murdered in a little, rural town in Wisconsin. His throat was slit, and despite the advances in DNA identification and the public’s mistaken belief in the CSI effect, the crime remains unsolved till this day. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was a spring day in 1903 when the body of Bertha "Glory" Whalen was found in a thicket. Her family had last seen her when she left for school. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories A hunter in pursuit of an elk he'd just shot found the unexpected: a human skull in the middle of nowhere. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was Halloween, 1958, when off a dirt road on Skinner Ridge south of Grand Canyon National Park, the skeletal remains of a young girl were found. Her body was nude and it was estimated she had been there nine to fourteen months. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was April 1943, and World War II raged throughout Europe when four English teenagers were hunting for birds' nests in a private estate near Birmingham named Hagley Wood. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories What is the perfect opportunity for a killer, than to find another murderer to blame for their deeds? By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories It was Saturday, the day before Halloween, 1926, when Marvin Aaron Clark, one-time marshal from Linnton, Oregon, took a motor stage to Portland. He's never been seen since. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories Most people are familiar with the notorious murder committed in Fall River, Massachusetts by the axe-wielding Lizzie Borden in 1892. However there was another crime just as heinous that occurred 60 years before.
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In February, 1983, Patricia Rosansky, 17, disappeared while walking to school. Eventually a man was convicted of the crime, but even now some wonder if justice was truly served. By M.P. Pellicer | Stranger Than Fiction Stories In the early 1970s, violent crimes that appeared separate and distinct from other events, in hindsight seem to have a dark thread binding them together. |
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