Examining the world of solved and unsolved cases.
DISCOVERY: On January 4, 2015, three birdwatchers were at Calvert Vaux Park, in the Gravesend area of Brooklyn, Kings County, New York when they came across a decomposed right hand lying face up in the sand along the shoreline of Coney Island Creek. At first glance, it appeared to have been in the water for
DISAPPEARANCE & DISCOVERY: 15-year-old Alice Lezan of Franklin Township, New Jersey was last seen on September 26, 1969. The grade 10 student at Franklin High School had decided to skip classes for the day and make the two hour bus trip to the Port Authority bus terminal located at 625 8th Avenue in Manhattan, New
DISCOVERY: On May 3, 1998, volunteers with the Ramapo College chapter of the Adirondack Mountain Club were cleaning up the parking area of the Long Mountain rest stop in Bear Mountain State Park, located in Woodbury, Orange County, New York. The rest stop, which is located on US Route 6, is a rest area often frequented
*UPDATE: The Yonkers Jane Doe has been identified as 31-year-old Meresa Hammonds.* DISCOVERY: On June 27, 1992, a worker from I Love Pizza at 1288 Midland Avenue in Yonkers, Westchester County, New York discovered the dismembered body of an unidentified female down an alley behind the pizzeria. The various body parts were discovered in plastic
DISCOVERY: On March 9, 1976, an apartment superintendent working at an apartment complex on Winston Drive in Greece, Monroe County, New York found a 5’x7′ blue storage trunk in the building’s basement storage area. Upon opening it, he discovered skeletal remains wrapped in a white or yellow blanket, as well as a water and mildew
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