What drives a person to commit murder? And why do some murders remain unsolved despite promising evidence and all the efforts of investigators? There are some murders that will stay in the public consciousness forever. Not because of their gruesome nature, their high body counts, or their despicable perpetrators, but because they are unsolved years after the crime was committed. The identity of Jack the Ripper – the man "from Hell" – is still a mystery and debated over today, more than a hundred years after the Whitechapel murders took place. More recently, the world still wonders what sick individual committed the Zodiac killings and sent taunting cryptograms to the press. And who plunged Chicago into a state of panic after it was discovered that Tylenol tablets were tampered with, containing enough cyanide to kill? Murder Mysteries is packed with crime scene photos and presents the evidence for you to examine. The world’s most notorious unsolved murders are featured within these pages. Can you solve these crimes?
WELCOME TO MURDER MYSTERIES
Real Crime Murder Mysteries - 7th Ed
I KNOW WHO BUTCHERED THE BLACK DAHLIA • IN JANUARY 1947, ASPIRING HOLLYWOOD STARLET ELIZABETH SHORT BECAME THE BLACK DAHLIA, THE MOST FAMOUS UNSOLVED MURDER VICTIM IN LOS ANGELES HISTORY. HAS LA COP STEVE HODEL SOLVED THIS 70-YEAR-OLD MYSTERY?
‘MY FATHER’S THE KILLER’ • STEVE HODEL IS A FORMER HOLLYWOOD HOMICIDE DETECTIVE TURNED WRITER. HE BELIEVES HIS FATHER BUTCHERED BETH
THE MOST INCREDIBLE MURDER • THE SAVAGERY WROUGHT AGAINST BETH SHORT’S BISECTED BODY IS UNPARALLELED IN REAL CRIME HISTORY
THE INVESTIGATION • IN THEIR SEARCH FOR ANSWERS IN THIS SENSATIONAL CASE, THE POLICE FOUND A WILLING AND ABLE ALLY IN THE PRESS
WHO ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS? • THE CASE REMAINS UNSOLVED, BUT THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO A FEW POTENTIAL SUSPECTS
THE AFTERMATH • THE LAPD FACED IMMENSE PRESSURE TO SOLVE THE CASE, BUT TO NO AVAIL
WHO KILLED THE GORILLA LADY? • RENOWNED ZOOLOGIST DIAN FOSSEY TREATED THE GORILLAS SHE STUDIED LIKE HER OWN CHILDREN. IT SEEMS SHE WOULD DO OR GIVE ANYTHING FOR THEM - INCLUDING HER LIFE
IN HER OWN WORDS • HAD DIAN FOSSEY BEEN AWARE THAT HER LIFE WAS IN DANGER BEFORE SHE WAS TRAGICALLY KILLED?
‘MONSIEUR ZED’ • A SHADY FIGURE WAS THRUST INTO THE SPOTLIGHT ALMOST A DECADE AFTER DIAN’S DEATH AND NAMED AS HER KILLER
THE INVESTIGATION • SOMEONE CLOSE TO DIAN WAS CHARGED WITH HER MURDER, BUT WAS LIKELY A SCAPEGOAT FOR THE PERPETRATORS OF A DEEPER AND MORE SINISTER PLOT THAN THE RWANDAN COURTS SUGGESTED
WHO ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS? • THE CASE REMAINS UNSOLVED, BUT THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO A FEW POTENTIAL SUSPECTS
THE AFTERMATH • DIAN’S KILLER WALKS FREE THANKS TO THE RWANDAN GOVERNMENT’S ALLEGED LACK OF INTEREST IN THE CASE
THE HIGHWAY OF TEARS • SINCE 1969 VULNERABLE WOMEN, TEENS AND CHILDREN HAVE BEEN MURDERED ALONG A 724KM STRETCH OF HIGHWAY IN BRITISH COLUMBIA, CANADA. IS IT THE WORK OF ONE OR SEVERAL KILLERS?
GIRLS DON’T HITCHHIKE • 50 YEARS OF MURDERED AND MISSING HAVE TAINTED THIS ROAD
THE INVESTIGATION • IT TOOK 20 YEARS TO RATCHET UP THE INVESTIGATION. IN THAT TIME, AT LEAST ONE KILLER ESCAPED JUSTICE
LELAND VINCENT SWITZER
BRITISH COLUMBIA: SERIAL KILLER CENTRAL • CORRUPTION IN GOVERNMENT RANKS HAS SEEN THIS STRETCH OF DEADLY ROAD BECOME A MURDERER’S HAVEN
THE AFTERMATH • WILL ALL THE CASES EVER BE SOLVED?
WHO ARE THE PRIME SUSPECTS? • THE CASE REMAINS UNSOLVED, BUT THE EVIDENCE POINTS TO A FEW POTENTIAL SUSPECTS
THE CHICAGO TYLENOL MURDERS • ON ONE INFAMOUS DAY IN SEPTEMBER 1982, CHICAGO WAS PLUNGED INTO A STATE OF PANIC WHEN SEVEN UNSUSPECTING VICTIMS DIED AFTER TAKING PAINKILLERS LACED WITH CYANIDE. THE KILLER HAS NEVER BEEN...