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Carol Jenkins (October 19, 1947 - September 16, 1968) was an African-American woman who was murdered on September 16, 1968, by two white men in a sundown town in Indiana.Her murder remained unsolved for over thirty years until a tip led investigators to one of her murderers in the early 2000s.
Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the "Black Dahlia," is one of the most famous victims of an unsolved murder in American history. Elizabeth Short (22), most commonly known as Black Dahlia , was a woman who was found severely mutilated and her body cut in half in Leimert Park , Los Angeles, California on 15 January 1947.
Some sources attribute the Black Dahlia name to the 1946 film noir The Blue Dahlia, starring Veronica Lake and Alan Ladd (pictured). [157] According to newspaper reports shortly after the murder, Short received the nickname "Black Dahlia" from staff and patrons at a Long Beach drugstore in mid-1946 as wordplay on the film The Blue Dahlia (1946).
New possible evidence keeps emerging in the Black Dahlia case. In 2018, a woman named Sandi Nichols uncovered a letter her grandfather, a former police informant, wrote in 1949 that asserted the ...
In 2012, investigators seemingly brought long-awaited closure to one of the nation's oldest and most high-profile kidnapping cases, solving it after more than 50 years.
Finally, 48 years later, the mystery of her killer has been solved thanks to DNA technology and genetic genealogy. He was identified as Thomas Martin Elliot, a career criminal who spent much of ...
The Roxbury murders also known as “The Stride Rite Murders” (because the first two victims were discovered dismembered in their plastic trash bags) occurred between January and May 1979 when eleven Black women and one White woman were murdered within several miles of one another in the Roxbury neighborhood on the south side of Boston, Massachusetts.
Scientists explored Beethoven’s ailments, linked remains to a Norse saga, uncovered colonial secrets, peeked inside an alchemy lab and debunked a royal hoax in 2024.