Our fascination with crime and murder is undeniable. From reality TV to fascinating Dramas, we can't seem to get enough murder mystery in our lives. Watching the bad guys get caught is eternally satisfying but not all the bad guys get caught and not all justice gets served. Victims everywhere are numbers on a box in a storage shed, unsolved, cold, forgotten.
Here are 14 disturbing unsolved crimes that will send chills down your spine.
Wisconsin
Back in October of 2009, Ashleigh Love was a 19 year old woman minding her own business when a man wearing a bandana over his face broke into her home and viciously shot her dead. It was strongly believed from the beginning that it was NOT a random event and Love had been romantically involved with a man during the months prior to her murder but he was never named a suspect and to this day over 7 years later no leads nor arrests have ever been made.
Florida
In October of 2012 Sherry Prather vanished out of thin air after leaving a bar called Boots n Bottles. She disappeared riding off on the back of a motorcycle with a mystery man. For an entire month nobody heard from Sherry and the only clues left behind were surveillance footage of Sherry, a mother of two children, stumbling out of the now closed bar. After that difficult month of confusion and fear a SINGLE bone was found in a wooded area. If it was not for a medical ID# on the bone due to a neck surgery Sherry had in the past, they would not have been able to identify the bone as belonging to Sherry. Sherry's mother, Norma Ellis, was devastated to learn that the month she worried for her daughter, she had been laying dead in the woods and eaten by wild animals. The police learned the identity of the man on the motorcycle but no arrests had been made as of October 2016, four years after Sherry disappeared.
Utah
Ann Rich was 31 years old in May of 1999 when her lifeless body was found lying in the roadway near a railroad track. Aside from a few witnesses who claimed to have heard arguing prior to her body being found, no other information has ever come to light. Her case remains unsolved with police still looking for any leads that could land her murderer arrested.
Washington
In November of 2014, the already troubled 18 year-old Summer Smith went from living on the streets and sending out-of-character text messages to loved ones to disappearing with no contact. Her loved ones reported they were worried about the group of people Summer associated with. Sadly, in January of 2015 just a couple months later, her lifeless body was found. Nearby were trash bags filled with a knife and bloody clothing. No arrests have been made.
Rhode Island
The tragic story of 7 year-old Michelle Norris is devastating from beginning to end. In May of 1988 he rmother, Julia, was fighting a kidney infection at home and while she was resting her children (daughter Michelle and Michelle's brothers) and their friends headed to the park behind the elementary school nearby the girl attended. Innocent fun among children turned to horror because that's precisely where little Michelle disappeared without a trace. No one heard a scream. No one heard a cry. No one so much as saw her walk away with anyone.
It was only after extensive and exhausting searches that Michelle's lifeless body was found, naked and bruised. The poor child had been sexually assaulted, beaten, and strangled to death.
Michelle's mother, Julia, says that her daughter was a fighter and would never have just gone quietly with a stranger so police have always assumed whoever hurt this little girl was no stranger. Despite presuming the murderer to be known to Michelle and her family, there has been no leads in the case.
New Jersey
This case has been cold since the beginning of 1999.
On January 7th, 17 year-old Nancy was walking home from work when she was brutally murdered. It happened as she was crossing through a shortcut in the woods via blunt force trauma to her head. It was a day later when her frozen body was found in a ravine. She had not been raped and she had not been robbed but investigators maintained her death was NO accident. The only potential clue they've ever had in almost 2 decades was that a man lurked outside her job the night of her murder. However nothing else has ever been brought to this now cold case. No suspects. No new evidence. Nancy has seen no justice.
New York
Sarah Fox's murder remains a wild mystery. Her lifeless, nude body was found in a park where she disappeared jogging one night in 2004. She had been strangled to death.
The craziest aspect of her story surrounds Dimitry Sheinman. The man claims he is a clairvoyant and returned from South Africa to give police information. The information he provided has never been released to the public and he remains a suspect to this day. He has never been charged because no DNA evidence has ever been linked to him.
Mississippi
A truly disgusting tale, this World War II veteran was driving home from his job over 50 years ago when he was ambushed by KKK Klansmen. The animals surrounded his car on a dirt road before shooting him several times in the face. He bled to death, alone. Considered one of the nation's most violent supremacist groups, it was truly believed White Knights of the KKK were responsible for this horrendous murder. Disappointingly, not a single one has ever been convicted of this crime let alone so much as charged.
Florida
Amber Bass was found by her sister in 2013 with a shotgun wound to the chest. With no suspects, motives, or leads, this case remains open and the only thing remaining is a Facebook page created by her family to raise awareness and in the hopes that someone, anyone, will come forward with some information that could lead to the arrest of her killer and give her devastated family some closure.
California
It was back in 2014 when a slough of murders ravished the Harris family. Just days before 19 year-old Derryck was murdered his 13 year-old brother was murdered while walking home from the Boys and Girls Club of Oakland. Derryck was with his best friend, Lamar Broussard, driving in Oakland when they were both shot and killed.
The mother of the brothers insists that no one outside the family knew they were brothers and the murders could not possibly be linked but the Police believe Derryck's murder was linked to a dispute over his little brother'. To this day, however, no one has been arrested or charged in any of these murders.
New York
Back in January of 2010, Patrick was a 7 year-old boy living in Brooklyn with a foster family appointed by Child Services. He disappeared one night when his foster mother, Librada Moron, said she was throwing out the trash. She claims she came back inside to find him missing. At the time, Patrick's biological mother, Jennifer Rodriguez, had told investigators that it was during a supervised visit that Patrick began to act differently. He was throwing things, crying, and acting out. As well, she claims he said he wanted to go home and be with his mother.
Sadly, to this day Patrick is still missing with zero leads.
California
Kerry Ann and Francine were only 15 and 14 year-old teenage girls when they mysteriously disappeared in December of 1987. It was only recently that two bodies found in the woods by a Sacramento man were identified as the long-time missing girls. When their bodies had been found foul play was assumed and suspected but there are absolutely no clues to this date. So little is known about their case which isn't hard to believe considering it took decades to link the bodies to the missing girls in the first place.
Massachusetts
It's been over 15 years since Karen was murdered. On October 8, 2001 the 41 year old woman was stabbed multiple times. When she was found she was airlifted to a nearby hospital. She lost that battle and deied. Surrounded in chaos, Karen was in the middle of a divorce from her 2nd husband. The man was in jail at the time of her death and Karen's daughter, Jennifer, believes the police are simply not doing their best to capture her killer. Jennifer was 14 at the time but rationalizes her assumption because Karen was a former drug user.
To this day, police have said a man named Aaron Sutton was the murderer but the case remains open and pending so it's not hard to see why Jennifer would feel so let down.
New York
It was 2007 when Stephen Spina was found murdered in his apartment by his then girlfriend, Tamara Acevedo. Stephen had suffered multiple stab wounds and the police listed three of his ex-girlfriends as suspects, including Tamara. Acevedo to this day claims innocence and police continue to investigate the murder. In fact, there's a $40,000 reward for information leading to the arrest of Stephen's killer. The reward was funded by softball tournaments held in his memory.