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December 31 - The Murder of Brandon Teena (00:07:55)
On the final day of 1993, deputies in rural Nebraska entered a small farmhouse outside Humboldt and found a scene of horror: three people had been executed—21-year-old Brandon Teena, 24-year-old Lisa ...
December 30 - The Brookline Abortion Clinic Shootings (00:08:45)
On December 30, 1994, just after Christmas, a 22-year-old gunman walked into two abortion clinics on Beacon Street in Brookline, Massachusetts, and opened fire. In under 15 minutes, two receptionists—...
December 29 - The disappearance of Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible (00:08:56)
On December 29, 1999, two best friends in rural Oklahoma—Ashley Freeman and Lauria Bible—celebrated Ashley’s 16th birthday with a sleepover. By morning, Ashley’s family home was in flames, both her pa...
December 28 - The Ronald Gene Simmons Christmas Rampage (00:10:59)
On the morning of December 28, 1987, residents of Russellville, Arkansas, had no idea that their quiet post-holiday routine was about to be shattered. What began as a chilling workplace shooting spree...
December 27 - The Disappearance of Patrick Warren and David Spencer (00:08:39)
On the night after Boxing Day in 1996, two best friends—11-year-old Patrick Warren and 13-year-old David Spencer—left their homes on a housing estate outside Birmingham and were never seen again. The ...
December 26 – The Edgewater Technology Shooting (00:09:14)
On December 26, 2000, the day after Christmas, employees at Edgewater Technology in Wakefield, Massachusetts, returned to what was supposed to be a quiet workday. Instead, a 42-year-old programmer nam...
December 25 – The Murder of JonBenét Ramsey (00:10:08)
On Christmas morning in 1996, six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey was reported missing from her family’s home in Boulder, Colorado. A ransom note had been left behind, warning her parents not to contact poli...
December 24 - The Disappearance and Murder of Laci Peterson (00:09:28)
On Christmas Eve in 2002, 27-year-old Laci Peterson vanished from her Modesto, California home. She was eight months pregnant with her first child, a baby boy named Conner. Her husband, Scott Peterson...
December 23 - The Murder of Paul Logan (00:08:35)
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...
December 22 - The Bernhard Goetz New York City Subway Shooting (00:08:34)
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...
December 21 - The Lockerbie Bombing (00:10:46)
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, ...
December 20 - The Abduction and Murder of Jonelle Matthews (00:07:55)
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...
December 19 – The Murder of Michelle Martinko (00:08:57)
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...
December 18 - The Disappearance of Heather Elvis (00:10:03)
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...
December 17 - The Abduction of Barbara Mackle (00:09:39)
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...
December 16 - The Disappearance and Murders of Kerry Graham and Francine Trimble (00:08:40)
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 ...
December 15 - The Kidnapping and Murder of Marion Parker (00:07:26)
On this day in 1927, 12-year-old Marion Parker was abducted from her Los Angeles junior high school by a man posing as a messenger from her father. Within 48 hours, her disappearance turned into one o...
December 14 – The Disappearance of Jason Landry (00:08:19)
On this day in 2020, 21-year-old Jason Landry was officially reported missing—just hours after his crashed car was discovered on a rural Texas road with no sign of the driver.The Texas State Universit...
December 13 - The Texas Seven Prison Break (00:08:34)
On this day in 2000, seven men executed one of the most shocking and well-coordinated prison escapes in American history. Known as the Texas Seven, the group walked out of a maximum-security facility ...
December 12 - The Disappearance of Dorothy Arnold (00:08:25)
On a cold afternoon in 1910, 25-year-old Dorothy Arnold — an heiress, aspiring writer, and socialite — left her family’s Upper East Side home for what should have been a simple shopping trip. She boug...
December 11 - The Murders of Rick and Suzanna Wamsley (00:08:47)
On December 11, 2003, Rick and Suzanna Wamsley were found brutally murdered inside their home in Mansfield, Texas. To friends and neighbors, they seemed like the picture of suburban success — loving p...
December 10 - The Murder of Frances Brown (00:07:30)
On this day in 1945, Chicago police entered a North Side apartment and found a crime scene so brutal — and so chillingly theatrical — that it made headlines across the country and birthed one of the m...
December 9 - The Disappearance of Joan Bernal (00:08:17)
On this day in 1988, 34-year-old Joan Yarbrough Bernal was supposed to be hitting the road with her husband and children for a holiday trip from Joliet, Illinois, to Texas. Instead, she vanished witho...
December 8 — The Murder of John Lennon (00:08:45)
On this day in 1980, music legend John Lennon was shot outside his New York City home by a fan who had waited for hours. Just hours before, Lennon had signed an autograph for the man who would end his...
December 7 - The Martin Family Disappearance (00:09:46)
On December 7, 1958, Kenneth and Barbara Martin and their three daughters—Barbie, Virginia, and Susan—set out from their Portland home for a Sunday drive into the Columbia River Gorge to gather Christ...
