Some of the Most Fascinating Unsolved Murders

One-third of all the murders in the United States go unsolved. Murder cases like this will haunt you with the though that the murderer could still be walking among us.

There has never been a shortage of unsolved murder cases.

The Body in the Box

On February 23rd, 1957, a man was checking his traps in the woods off Susquehanna Road in Fox Chase, Philadelphia, that was when he came across a baby bassinet box that held a dead body. He knew that his muskrat traps were illegal, so he decided to not report the body after he found it.

Two days after this, a college student, Frederick Benosis, was spying on girls that attended Good Shepherd School when he came across the body. He was also reluctant to notify the authorities, but a day later he ended up reaching out to the police.

The body that was found was a young child who was dubbed as the "Boy in the Box," and is known as "America's Unknown Child."

The boy was nude and his hands and feet were winkled, it was as if he was submerged into water before he died. His esophagus also contained a dark substance that suggested that he may have vomited shortly before he died, the cause of this appeared to be several blows to the head.

Even with the significant media attention, no one ever came forward to identify the boy.

Progress was made in 2002 when a psychiatrist reached out to authorities with information regarding the case. She claimed that a patient of hers, a woman named Mary, told her that her parents purchased "America's Unknown Child" and used him as a sex toy.

Mary said that her mother had been bathing the boy when he vomitted and out of anger, she beat him to death. Mary also claimed that she accompanied her mother to the woods. This was where they wrapped the boy in a blanket, placed him in a box and left him.

Detectives were convinced that Mary was telling the truth, even if she was mentally unstable. But, when Mary's name got leaked to the media, she fled the country and there were no further efforts in the investigation.

Black Dahlia

A dismembered body of a woman was discovered on January 15th, 19478 in a vacant lot in Leimert park, Los Angeles. The woman who came across the body, Betty Bersinger, thought that the body was a severed mannequin at first. The body was drained of it's blood and appeared to have been washed. The face had been slashed from mouth the ear.

The upper and lower parts of the woman's body were set a foot away from each other and they were posed. The hands were placed over the head, the elbows were bent, and the legs spread. The intestines were also tucked under the buttocks of the body.

Once the authorities were called, the body was identified as Elizabeth Short, she was later dubbed as the "Black Dahlia" she was a 22-year-old aspiring actress who was in a relationship with a married salesman.

Six days following the discovery of the body, on the 21st of January, editor of the Los Angeles Examiner, James Richardson, received an anonymous call.. This caller told him to expect "souvenirs."

On January 24th, an envelope was discovered by a postal service worker. It was addressed to "The Los Angeles Examiner and other Los Angeles papers." The contents were Elizabeth's birth certificate, photos, and other belongings.

The letter read:

"Here it is. Turning in Wed., Jan 29, 10 am. Had my fun at police. Black Dahlia Avenger." The note included the location where the killer would supposedly show up. The police waited patiently, but to their dismay, the killer never showed. That smae day another note was sent: "Have changed my mind. You would not give me a square deal. Dahlia killing was justified."

Police questioned a number of suspects and self-confessed Black Dahlia killers. The killer has not been found and remains one of the most baffling unsolved murder cases.

The Ice Box Murders

On June 23rd, 1965, Houston patrolmen visited the home of an elderly couple, Fred and Edwina Rogers. The house was empty, and on their way out, one of them decided to go check the fridge.

Charles Bullock, one of the patrolmen that were present that day, described the scene:

"Opened up a refrigerator and seen nothing but meat stacked in it. My partner standing next to me made the comment that it looked like somebody had butchered a hog. We didn't know it was a body until we got ready to close the refrigerator and we could see the head down in the bottom of the vegetable bin."

Police then investigated and they had discovered that Fred, 81, and Edwina, 72, were murdered a week before they were placed in the fridge. Edwina was brutally beaten and then she was shot, all while Fred had his head crushed. His insides were then flushed down the toilet.

Their killer was never found, but there was a prime suspect, the elderly couple's son, Charles, who at the time was 43-years-old. No one could find him, he was gone without a trace. However, more recently, two Houston locals, Hugh and Martha Gardenier declared they may have cracked the murder case wide open.

According to them, Charles, who was a geophysicist, was abused, both physically and emotionally by his parents at a young age. His parents lived in the home that Charles owned and were constantly taking out loans in his name. He grew tired of the abuse, so he supposedly killed his parents.

It is also believed that he fled to Mexico and soon migrated to South America where he continued to work as a geophysicist.

Room 1046

On January 2nd, 1935, a man checked into Hotel President in Kansas City, his room number was 1046. According to the hotel register, his name was Roland T. Owen and his home address was located in Los Angeles. He had brown hair, a scar on his scalp and a cauliflower ear. He carried no luggage except for a hairbrush, a comb, and toothpaste.

The same day that he had checked in the hotel, a maid stopped by the room, and according to her, Owen appeared frightened. The blinds were shut, and the room's only source of light was from a small lamp.

Once the maid finished cleaning the room, Owen asked her to leave the door unlocked because he was expecting a friend. Later, the maid returned with some fresh towels, that was when she saw a note on the dresser that read, "Don, I will be back in fifteen minutes. Wait."

The maid returned to room 1046 the following morning. It was locked from the outside, so she assumed Owen had gone out. But, to her surprise, Owen was in the room, this meant that someone else had stopped by and locked Owen in the room. Just like the previous night, Owen was sat in the dark. The phone range and Owen answered, "No, Don, I don't want to eat, I am not hungry, I just had breakfast," He said.

This same day, Robert Lane, a motorist, picked up a man near the Hotel President. This man apparently told Robert that he was going to kill someone tomorrow and later on, Robert identified this man as Owen.

The maid returned to room 1046 that night, but she was turned away by a gruff sounding man. The hotel's staff noticed that the phone in room 1046 was off the hook the following the morning, so they sent a bellboy up to the room where he discovered Owen lying in a puddle of blood.

It was obvious that Owen was tortured, when the police asked Owen who did this to him, he said "Nobody." He claimed that his wounds were the result of him falling against the bathtub and mysteriously, his clothes were missing.

Police discovered that Roland T. Owen didn't exist when they attempted to confirm the man's identity. Owen, was now John Doe, passed away in the hospital and was to be buried in the potter's field.

An anonymous caller asked for the burial to be postponed until funds were gathered for a proper funeral were wired. 13 flowers were sent to the funeral and were signed, "Love for ever - Louise."

In 1936, a woman read about Owen's case and claimed it looked a lot like her friend's missing son, Artemus Ogletree. Artemus's mother also confirmed that the man from room 1046 was her son, but the case never progressed any further.

Police never found the man Don, and they were never able to trace the mysterious woman named Louise who funded the funeral and sent the flowers.

The Hall-Mills Murder Case

On September 16th, 1922, a teenaged couple were out on a walk when they came across the bodies of a man and a woman that were lying under a crab apple tree. The man and woman were both dead, the man was shot once and the woman was shot three times.

The bodies were posed, both of their feet were pointed towards the apple tree, the man's hand was on the woman's neck and hers on his knee. The man's card was propped against his foot. A hat was concealing the man's head and there was a scarf wrapped around the woman's neck. Later, it was discovered that the woman's tongue was cut out. There were torn love letters all around the bodies.

The bodies were identified as Reverend Edward Wheeler Hall and Eleanor Reinhardt Mills. The two were lovers, but the affair was complicated, Eleanor was married to the church's janitor and Reverend Edward was married to a wealthy woman, Frances Stevens Hall. She was the main murder suspect.

The crime scene ended up getting contaminated by souvenir hunters and police had nothing solid to go on until Jane Gibson, who was better known as the "Pig Woman," came forward. She was a hog farmer that lived near the scene.

She said that on the night of September 14, she saw four people, two men and two women, in her cornfield. She then heard a woman yell "Explain these letters," followed by gunshots, then a woman screaming, "Henry!"

The case was dismissed and nobody got charged. But, four years later, a maid that had served the Halls confessed that the reverend wanted to annul his marriage and go get eloped with Eleanor Mills.

The Pig Woman was once again called to testify, but her testimony was deemed inaccurate. It also didn't help that her own mother sat in the front row mumbled "liar, liar," throughout the testimony. This ruined Jane's credibility. Mrs. hall and her brothers, Henry and William, were also acquitted.

Charles Morgan and "Green Eyes"

A Prominent Tucson escrow agent, Charles "Chuck" Morgan, left his home on March 22nd, 1977, but he did not return for three days. And when he did return, he could not speak, and he explained to his bewildered wife that his throat was painted with a hallucinogenic drug that could either kill him or cause him to go mad. He also confessed that he was a US Treasury Agent.

It took a week for Charles to recover. And only two months following his first disappearance, Charles disappeared once again. And his wife received a phone call from a woman that said, "Chuck is all right. Ecclesiastics 12, 1 through 8."

Two days after this, Charles's body was discovered in the desert. He was shot in the back of the head. The murder weapon was his own gun. And according to the sheriff's department, Charles's death was a suicide. But, if it was a suicide, why was he wearing a bulletproof vest? And why was he carrying a knife and a holster in his belt?

The investigation was complicated further when some strange objects were found in Charles's car that was found parked near the scene of the crime. These objects included ammunition, weapons, a CB radio, and one of his teeth wrapped up in a handkerchief.

There was a 2 dollar bill that was found clipped to Charles's underwear, the bill had a number of Spanish surnames that was scribbled on it as well as a map of the area.

Two days after the discovery of Charles's body, the Pima County Sheriff's Department recieved an anonymous call from a woman, she referred to herself as "Green Eyes," and she confessed that she was also the woman who called Charles's wife.

She said before his death, she met Charles in a motel where he showed her a suitcase full of cash. There was apparently a contract out on Charles's life, but he and the hitman arranged a deal for his life to be saved.

There were no suspects, but it was believed that the mafia was involved as Charles supposedly carried out escrow work for them, he had recently testified in a secret investigation into the illegal activity.