Totally Terrifying True Crime Trivia by Brian Boone

Author:Brian Boone
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: St. Martin's Publishing Group

CHAPTER 6

STILL UNSOLVED

Unfortunately, and tragically, some of the most haunting and horrific murders on Earth are never solved.

The Lover’s Lane killer murdered couples regularly—until he or she just stopped.

Over ten weekends from February to May 1946, a killer stalked couples who’d parked in Lover’s Lane areas in Texarkana, a Texas-Arkansas border town. The first couple attacked, Jimmy Hollis and Mary Jeanne Larey, survived. Then the killer murdered three more couples (one woman survived, but was seriously wounded). Texas Rangers patrolled the town for three months but left after the murders stopped. The Phantom Killer, as he or she was nicknamed, was never identified.

Chuck Morgan was found with a $2 bill and his own hanky-wrapped tooth.

Chuck Morgan was a financial manager in Tucson, Arizona. He was a potential witness in a fraud case with ties to the Mob. After disappearing for three days in March 1977, he returned, letting his wife know that his throat had been painted with a hallucinogenic drug that would kill him if he spoke. He recovered at home under her care, then disappeared two months later. Despite a call from a strange woman saying her husband was all right, Morgan’s body was found in the desert forty miles outside of Tucson. He’d been shot in the back of the head with his own gun. His car was full of weapons, ammo, and one of Morgan’s teeth wrapped in a hanky. He had a $2 bill strapped to his underwear with names on it. A woman named “Green Eyes” called the Pima County Sheriff saying Morgan had tried to pay off the assassin hired to kill him, and failed. But this was never proven and the case went cold.

Four decades later, authorities remain baffled by the oldest cold case in Delaware.

In 1977, a person walking along Old Union Church Road in Townsend, Delaware, spotted a body in a roadside drainage ditch. Police determined from the decomposed remains that the victim had been a woman in her forties, somewhere between five feet three and five feet six, and that she was murdered somewhere else. Despite using photographic technology to create reasonably accurate photos of what the deceased would have looked like while alive, Townsend police have never received a decent lead on her identity—and, thus, have no idea who killed her or why.

Edwin Matlock disappeared from his cabin forever.

In 1951, U.S. Armed Forces veteran Edwin Matlock was living on the outskirts of Spokane, Washington. His family spoke to him around March 1, but when he didn’t show up for Thanksgiving dinner nearly nine months later, his mother went to his cabin, found him gone, and reported him missing. He apparently vanished, leaving behind only rumors about his whereabouts. Some said he moved to Alaska, or that he’d been shot, killed, and secretly buried by the husband of a married woman he’d been seeing. All of those leads turned up nothing, and no trace of Matlock was ever found.

DNA evidence proved unhelpful in solving the case of a young woman’s stabbing.

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