Lover's Lanes, those back roads and out the way places where young lovers for generations have retreated to have some alone time.  ...

This is a slightly revised version of an earlier story... Spring times are supposed to be about life and renewal and second chances. Onc...

Do you have a suggestion for a story of disappearance, unsolved murder, or other crime without solution,  to be included in this new work? ...

THE MAD MAN. Cleveland, Ohio Sept. 1936, Kingsbury Run (Pubic Domain) In 1926 the body of young woman was found cut to pieces jus...

In  December 1948,  along US 277 northeast of Lawton and southwest of Chickasha a head was found in a pillowcase. The spot was near the Co...

Moore, Oklahoma  Permission granted to ues Photo The Crown Motel, 9501 S. Shields in Moore (OK), was owned by the Blasdell family...

As the 20th century dwindled down, law enforcement forged into new territory to crime fighting by creating a "profile".  Various ...

http://www.oklahomacounty.org/assessor/Projects/Stockyards/Stockyards.jpg According to first hand reports, nearly every block around t...

In the late 1940's families in one area of Tulsa, Oklahoma were frightened and nervous.  Over a six year period several women had been ...

They were often found in hard-to-reach pastures or deserted areas.  Often, there was no clear cause of death. Many of them had been driving...

They were all young, attractive, and most were dark haired... In 1955, Andrea Lopez Phares , 20, left a town in Texas to return to her ho...

In this new series, author and researcher, Marilyn A. Hudson explores some missing persons cases. Early May of 1955 in the south plains a...

What are the odds of two murderers having the same name? Strangely that is what happened in the case of a couple found in the Mohave Desert...

Writing and researching for some of the books I write involves a lot of background digging and sometimes all the information is not found i...

A revisit to an article I originally published in 2008... SKIRVIN HOTEL, THE "EFFIE,' GHOST, AND A THEORY Local historian ...

Just in time for Halloween...    Once upon time there were two sisters Mamie Durieux and Mrs. Dan Patton.  Mamie had wondered off from ...

1910 Man Writing He was born in Tennessee about 1870 to parents born in Tennessee.  In 1910, he published a long narrative poem with a ...

The numbers are staggering.  Nearly 700,000 people reported missing in 2013. Men, women, and children.  The worst part is not that they are...

Looking at a crime over cultural or economic divides can be challenging. Secrets, in-crowd status, outsider vantage points become mixed up ...

From Oklahoma Paranormal (2008 ): "Local historian Marilyn A. Hudson presents an intriguing theory concerning the alleged "Effi...

Recent news coverage has brought new noterity to the story of female spirit inhabiting the now renovated Skirvin Hotel.   The legend:  A m...

As Rod Serling said, there is a signpost up ahead...or in this case, along Highway 81 in southern Kansas in a small town begun in the cattle...