Welcome to Buried Cases, a newsletter revisiting true crime cases that once captured headlines.
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While you wait for the next issue, here are some stories from the archive:
The Woman in the Field
On Christmas morning 2002, a driver spotted a near lifeless body in an empty alfalfa field outside Carlsbad, New Mexico. It would take more than 15 years for authorities to bring the person responsible for the crime to justice.The Unsolved Murder of Jan Stackhouse
What began as a peaceful walk in the Berkshires for one labor union activist is still a cold case two decades later.The Abduction and Murder of Tara Sidarovich
When a teenager went missing after a routine home maintenance appointment, her family’s search for answers lasted more than a decade.The Cold Case of Maylon Johnson
When a city’s new cold case unit broke ground in 1998, two brothers asked detectives to find the person responsible for their mother’s 1971 murder.The Murder of Rose Twells
It would take decades for authorities to discover who killed a “first lady of the community” just days before Christmas 1979.The Unsolved Murders of Milwaukee’s South Side
In the 1970s, at least six young women were murdered under similar circumstances in and around Milwaukee’s South Side. Authorities had a prime suspect, but couldn’t prove he was responsible.
Thanks for reading.
—Thomas Grey
