#1: Whitechapel Killings
This is about the infamous "Jack the Ripper". There where eleven murders all together and all of them prostitutes. Some say that it was about rituals and dark wonderings, and others say it was a way to practice taboo forms of medicine. Â Â
#2: John Middleton Clayton Murder
This is about the murder of John Middleton Clayton on January 29, 1889 in Pinkerton, Arkansas. He was gunned down outside of his home. It was said that he was murdered because he lied about his election results which where faked so he can go to congress.
#3: Andrew and Abby Borden
We all know the nursery rhyme of Lizzie Borden, but what most don't know is that it was an actual murder. Lizzie Borden, although being suspected, was actuated of all crimes, and it remains a mystery of who did it to this day.
#4: The Axeman of New Orleans
Not only is he a character in the hit show "American Horror Story: Coven", he is actually based on a real man and a very real crime. At the turn of the 10th century the axe man killed 10 people and just stopped killing. No one knows who it was and no evidence has ever been found.
#5: The Atlas Vampire Case
In 1932 in Stockholm, Sweden, an unnamed 32-year-old prostitute was found dead approximately 48 hours after her murder. Though murders of prostitute weren't that rare at the time, the woman who had been killed by a crushing blow to the skull had attracted significant media attention as it appeared in the autopsy note that the killer had apparently been drinking the woman's blood. Due to the absence of forensic technology and the lack of witnesses, this spine-chilling mystery remained unsolved.
#6: The Black Dahlia
This aspiring actress was killed ritualistic style in Los Angeles, California. She was only 22 and there were no witness. Â All that was known about the case is that who ever did the murder was very twisted to say the least.
#7: The Taman Shud Case
This unsolved case that received worldwide attention involved an unidentified man that was found dead on the morning of December 1, 1948 on Somertone beach in Adelaide, South Australia. Despite the best efforts of numerous agencies and governments around the world the man was never identified and the only clue was a piece of scrap paper in his pocket that had two words written on it from the final page of the Rubaiyat: "taman shud", which translates to "ended".
#8: Marilyn Sheppard
In 1954 a woman by the name of Marilyn Sheppard was killed in her own home. The culprit? Well it is unknown, but some say it was her very own husband, who at the time was a well-to-do Neurosurgeon. The trial lasted until 1970 and some to this day claim that it was the husband even though he was acquitted by the Supreme Court.
#9: Boy in the Box
In Susquehanna Road in Northeast Philadelphia on February 25, 1957 a about 6 years old was found in a box. He was covered in bruises and had been dead for about some time. no one has ever come forward to claim the child and no one has ever been implemented in his murder.
#10: Jack the Stripper
A copycat of "Jack the Ripper," this serial killer was nicknamed "Jack the Stripper" for the killings of eight prostitutes between 1964 and 1965 whose bodies were dumped in the River Thames. Though a young man who committed suicide was implicated in the murder, there was no solid evidence to link him to the crimes and just like the crimes of Jack the Ripper, the Stripper's reign of panic seem to cease on its own
#11: The Lead Masks Case
On August 17, 1966 two repairmen, Miguel Jose Viana and Manoel Pereira da Cruz, left Campos dos Gostacazes, Brazil to buy some supplies for a car. Three days later they were found dead by a teenager in Vintem Hill. The oddest thing was the fact that both of them where wearing lead mask, the ones you find for radiation protection. There was also note describing a schedule that is made out to be some sort of suicide pact. Some say it was some form of bizarre murder, others suspect a darker reason.
#12: The Zodiac Killings
In the San Francisco area from December 1968 to October 1969 several people where murdered, seven to be exact, and it was done by a man who has never been caught. He even taunted the police with cryptic clues left in coded letters to them.
#13: The Glico-Morinaga Case
The Glico-Morinaga case, also known by its official designation Metropolitan Designated Case 114, was a famous extortion case in 1980s Japan, primarily directed at the Japanese industrial confectioneries Ezaki Glico and Morinaga and currently remains unsolved. The entire case spanned 17 months from the initial kidnapping of the president of Glico to the last known communication from the prime suspect, a person or group known only as the "The Monster with 21 Faces". The case captured the Japanese public's imagination and many commentators refer to this incident as a turning point in Japanese society in which the image of a crime-free and safe Japan was dispelled.
#14: JonBenét Ramsey
In 1996 this little darling was found murdered in her family's house. She was strangled and beat to death. It has often been a theory that her parents did it, but they were acquitted after newly found DNA evidence. It has been a media frenzy since the day it happened. And no one knows who actually committed the murders.
#15: Oscar Romero
Oscar Romero, a bishop in El Salvador, was shot on 24 March 1980 while celebrating Mass at a small chapel located in a hospital called "La Divina Providencia," one day after a sermon in which he had called on Salvadoran soldiers, as Christians, to obey God's higher order and to stop carrying out the government's repression and violations of basic human rights. The killers were said to be government affiliated, but no one ever claimed responsibility.
