Nereida “Nettie” Melendez disappeared on the morning of her graduation in June of 1989 when she went to drop off a van she had borrowed for the weekend from her work. When she didn’t show for graduation, her family knew something was wrong. By the next afternoon, her older brothers, after hours of searching, discovered Nettie’s lifeless body face-down in the park. She had been strangled to death.

Bobby Fisher lost his mom, Donna Fisher, in 1986, to a brutal attack in her home on Prospect Street in Cranston, Rhode Island. There was no sign of forced entry. She had been strangled and sexually assaulted. Police believe that she knew her attacker. But she was alive when rescue promptly arrived. Despite attempts to save her, she passed away on her 39th birthday, 3 days later. 36 years later, the case is heating up again. Justice may yet come.

Champaben and Anita Patel were found brutally murdered in Champa’s Windsor, CT home by police within an hour of the crime. Evidence from the crime scene suggested it was someone with an intimate knowledge of the home. The killer took Anita’s van from the driveway and ditched it at a nearby church, while Anita’s children wandered aimlessly through the neighborhood. As police learned more about the family, a suspect emerged, but there has never been enough evidence to charge him.