Junko Furuta was a Japanese high school student. She worked part-time at a factory to pay for a graduation trip. Junko had already accepted a job, post-graduation. Unfortunately, she would never make it. Instead she was tricked and held captive, abused and tortured for over 40 days before her body could take no more. Dying before she even got to live. The perpetrators were four boys. Who, after killing her, finally realized they may get into trouble and so they discarded her in a barrel as trash near a construction site. Months later, after an arrest, one of the boys tells police where to find her body after he incorrectly believed one of his accomplices had already admitted to the crime.

Sources:

https://medium.com/write-a-catalyst/they-tortured-her-for-44-days-the-disturbing-case-of-junko-furuta-57c3e5acf80d

https://timenote.info/lv/person/view?id=4369916&l=en

https://vocal.media/criminal/the-brutal-murder-of-junko-furuta-mbig03xv

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bt9soNvu0Mc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uNwWcavYm4

Caitlin Potts, Caralyn Aubrey King, Carol Lynn Prudhomme, Carol Ruby Davis, and Caroline Burns are five cases all listed on the MMIW site. I discuss the known information about all the women, unfortunately all of these cases remain unresolved.

Sources:

⁠https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/⁠

⁠https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/caitlin-potts⁠

⁠https://vernonmorningstar.com/2026/02/21/enderbys-caitlin-potts-has-been-missing-for-10-years/⁠

⁠https://indiginews.com/okanagan/seven-years-after-her-disappearance-family-of-caitlin-potts-reignites-calls-for-justice/⁠

⁠https://www.castanet.net/news/Vernon/599664/Enderby-resident-Caitlin-Potts-was-last-seen-10-years-ago⁠

⁠https://globalnews.ca/news/9858717/suspect-sting-operation-okanagan-missing-womans/⁠

⁠https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/caralyn-aubrey-king⁠

⁠https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2020/03/05/the-murder-of-caralyn-king/⁠

⁠https://www.thecanadianlibrary.ca/post/caralyn-king⁠

⁠https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/carol-lynn-prudhomme⁠

⁠https://www.justicefornativepeople.com/2018/10/carol-prudhommes-mysterious-albertan.html⁠

⁠https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/carol-ruby-davis⁠

⁠https://vancouversun.com/news/local-news/tragic-tales-but-hope-for-the-future-at-the-inquiry-into-missing-and-murdered-indigenous-women⁠

⁠https://francesbula.com/uncategorized/carol-ruby-davis-a-heartbreaking-death-30-years-ago-now/⁠

⁠https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/caroline-burns⁠

⁠https://int-missing.fandom.com/wiki/Caroline_Burns⁠

Andersonville Prison was created to house Union soldiers during the Civil War. Prisoner negotiations ceased, creating an influx of med being detained. Georgia was one of the sites that new prisons were erected to house these men. There the conditions were horrifying. Men were not given clothes, housing, or adequate nutrition. Men suffered from scurvy and fleas. They dealt with chain gangs and the stockade. As the war ended, almost half of the men that died in the south, died as prisoners of Andersonville.

Sources:

https://www.nps.gov/ande/learn/historyculture/camp_sumter_history.htm

https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/andersonville-prison

https://artsandculture.google.com/story/daily-life-at-andersonville-prison-georgia-public-broadcasting/GgUBE3JvqMsmIQ?hl=en

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/andersonville-prison/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOci27e2V8g

https://blogs.loc.gov/maps/2021/09/the-maps-of-andersonville-prison/

https://npshistory.com/publications/civil_war_series/5/sec1.htm

James Madison Page. 1908. The True Story of Andersonville Prison. A defense of Major Henry Wirz

Charles Rivers Editors. 2026. Andersonville Prison. The history of the civil war’s most notorious prison camp

Gary Heidnik was born in Cleveland, OH to abusive, alcoholic parents. At a young age he suffered a head injury. Shaping him into the grotesque man he was to become. He joined the military and was honorably discharged with a diagnosis of Schizophrenia. From there he became a bishop, embezzled funds, raped members of his clergy and became rich. His delve into darkness spiraled until a woman emerged from the depths of his dungeon and exposed him for the monster he was. The resulting sentence was death. Carried out in 1999.

Sources:

Green, R. The Pit. The true crime story of six women, one monster, and the nightmare below. 2025

https://www.michaelmatza.com/heidnik

https://6abc.com/post/gary-heidniks-house-of-horrors-30-years-later/3429565/

https://law.justia.com/cases/pennsylvania/supreme-court/1991/526-pa-458-1.html

https://www.aetv.com/articles/gary-heidnik

On March 17th 1990, 14 year old Rachel Hurley was out on a boat with friends. She was dropped off on the pier and ran along the beach to another park, before turning to a path as a short cut. She never made it to her destination. After a search, her body was found along the path, nude and strangled. In 2004 the cold case team took over, but as of yet, there are no answers.

Sources:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/three-decades-later-st-patricks-164858569.html

https://thedeckpodcast.com/rachel-hurley/

https://www.facebook.com/palmbeachcountysheriff/videos/35-year-anniversary-of-the-murder-of-rachel-hurley/538530202138298/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBiQFeRXLss

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/crime/2021/03/17/who-killed-14-year-old-rachel-hurley-search-enters-31st-year-today/4729835001/

https://cbs12.com/news/local/jupiter-inlet-march-17-1990-carlin-park-who-killed-rachel-hurley-the-jupiter-teens-death-remains-cold-32-years-later-palm-beach-county-sheriffs-office

https://truecrimediva.com/the-1990-unsolved-murder-of-rachel-hurley/

https://www.nbcnews.com/dateline/loved-ones-still-fighting-justice-31-years-after-st-patrick-n1261667

Sources:

In 1954, a woman was murdered and left out for two college students to stumble upon while hiking a week later. Her investigation was minimal before she was buried without a name. Decades later, a woman hears a plea to find her name and takes it as a personal mission. She puts together a case, gets the right people involved, and even with all the help and work it takes over 50 years for Silvia to get Jane Doe's name. Still, she persevered and found Jane Doe333 was in fact, Dorothy Howard.

Web of Death: Boulder Jane Doe

https://www.truecrimeedition.com/post/dorothy-howard

https://www.nbcnews.com/id/wbna33622226

https://thecinemaholic.com/dorothy-gay-howard-murder-is-harvey-glatman-dead-or-alive/

https://www.denverpost.com/2009/11/14/after-55-years-boulder-jane-does-story-finally-coming-together/

https://tucson.com/news/local/crime/article_d72ebcc9-7ae8-5e74-938a-2f25b0cb3209.html

https://www.colorado.edu/coloradan/2010/09/01/sleuthing-jane-doe

This month I talk about another four cases on the CBC list of MMIW cases. Expanding upon the information available. Getting their stories heard again. This month is for Brandy Vittrekwa, Brenda Campbell, Brittany Bearspaw, and Brooklynn Moose.

Sources:

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brandy-vittrekwa

https://yukon-news.com/2018/05/14/brandy-vittrekwas-killer-to-move-to-b-c-upon-release-from-custody/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/sentencing-brandy-vittrekwa-1.3621446

https://www.ipl.org/essay/Research-Paper-On-Brandy-Trekwa-028E3F16EA230FCE

https://www.whitehorsestar.com/News/crown-family-had-opposed-open-custody

https://www.thecanadianlibrary.ca/post/story-of-brandy-vittrekwa

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/brandy-vittrekwa-apos-killer-applies-140000853.html

https://www.aptnnews.ca/uncategorized/gwichin-tribal-council-calls-for-review-over-lenient-sentence-in-killing-of-17-year-old/

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brenda-jeannette-campbell

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/rooming-house-fire-murder-1.4194634

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brittany-bearspaw

https://www.cbc.ca/missingandmurdered/mmiw/profiles/brooklyn-moose

https://storiesoftheunsolved.com/2021/02/16/the-death-of-brooklyn-moose/

http://thecanadianlibrary.ca/post/story-of-brooklyn-moose

Ellen Greenburg had her whole life in front of her. Engaged and preparing the wedding of her dreams. She worked as a first grade teacher, a source of stress due to her large class sizes. She was seeing a psychiatrist and seemed to find some medication that eased her anxiety.

But on January 26th 2011, a 911 call comes in. Her fiancée came home from a workout to her dead on the kitchen floor. He reports she stabbed herself on fell on a knife. The M.E. immediately labeled it as a suicide and went on with their day. But back at the morgue autopsy would show 20 stab wounds, over 10 bruises in various stages of healing. Indicative of abuse and murder.

Her death certificate was changed from suicide to homicide for two weeks. Then it was inexplicably changed back to suicide, where it remains today.

Sources:

Death in Apartment 603: What happened to Ellen Greenburg

https://www.lambmcerlane.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/inquirer.com-It-was-very-very-weird-A-civil-suit-reveals-new-details-in-the-case-of-Ellen-Greenberg.pdf

https://abcnews.com/US/ellen-greenbergs-family-celebrates-prospect-federal-investigation-death/story?id=129238479

https://www.cnn.com/2025/10/13/us/ellen-greenberg-death-philadelphia-cec