Trellis Publishing

Licorice McKechnie was an oddity...A famous musician whose life was shrouded in mystery until she finally disappeared...Over the years, many have taken it upon themselves to solve the mystery of her...

Nearly six weeks after Lynette Dawson disappeared, on February 18th, 1982, her husband Chris finally reported her missing. He stuck to his story. There was nothing to be worried about. She had left...

When a person vanishes into thin air without any evidence or leads, the police are usually left helpless to search for answers. After some time these cases will become cold, and the families of the...

With over 71,000 missing persons, Canada is one of the leading countries on this terrifying list. Even though the law enforcement is doing their best to locate these people, many of them slip through...

In fact, for all the apparent thrills of the wedding, the year 2000 was one of enormous tragedy for Marsha Brantley. The newly wed lost both of her parents during those twelve months, both succumbing...

On October 5th, 2009 workmen were carrying out maintenance along the northwards side of the M5, clearing the undergrowth, when they came across some thin, cheap black plastic bin bags, tied across...

Excitement filled the air in Alma, Arkansas on the night of June 9, 1995. A crowd of nearly three hundred surrounded the baseball pitch to watch a little league game on a warm summer night. Cheering...

Nothing was more important to 34 year old Paige Birgfeld than her family. She loved getting together with her three kids, her parents, and her siblings, and according to her father, Frank Birgfeld,...

'Kiss, Kiss - love you sis, ' the goodbye that Patti Adkins shared with her sisters. How could they know that, at the end of June 2001, they would hear it from their younger sibling for the final...

Some problems become more troublesome the longer they are left. The aching molar which remains untended; the lawn which is left uncut. The same might be said of the case of Ray Gricar. Although, of...

After leaving a movie in Jersey City, Shannan kissed her boyfriend, Alex Diaz, goodbye. She had received a call out from a client in Oak Beach and promised to come back the next day. Diaz was not...

The Strangest DisappearanceWhen a person goes missing, the tragic consequences spread far. Family, friends, even investigators, become affected by the loss. Guilt, hope, fear, panic and other...

Murder is rarely simple. But the complex strands of criminality that surround the almost certain death of Susan Powell serve to obscure the reality of a very tragic situation. Through a series of...

On February 14, 2007, Stephen Grant walked into Macomb County Sheriff's Office a little before 11 a.m. He told the desk sergeant that he wanted to report his wife Tara missing. Turning to the deputy...

Missing persons cases are frighteningly frequent in the United States of America. Approximately, 100,000 people are on that list every single day. Surely, those individuals do not vanish in groups...

Barbara Grimes was the older of the two Grimes sisters, her full name was Barbara Jeanne Grimes and she was born on the warm day of May 5, 1941. It was only a short few years before her younger...

Joe Shones was having a heart attack on the road. He quickly jumped out of the car and headed toward the oncoming vehicle, screaming for help and waving his arms. But no one paid him any attention -...

Zebb had been working at the electronics department in Walmart for quite some time, and was logging in over 40 hours a week despite being a part-time employee. He took up extra shifts whenever they...

Rebekkah is an Amish woman whose mother has just passed away. The loss of her mother has crushed her father and brothers. Rebekkah provides a shoulder to cry on but she soon meets an "outsider",...

An anthology of True Crime headlined by the story of Lana Sue Clayton... When Lana Sue Clayton's husband, Steven, was found dead July 21, 2018, in the foyer of his expansive South Carolina mansion,...

A Series of Horror short stories...How long does a story have to pass the lips of locals before it becomes an urban legend? Sometimes it takes centuries of fear and rumors before a killer's legend...

Julianne considers her Amish life boring. She's also resigned herself to being a spinster for the rest of her life. There are no men in town she's even remotely interested in even though every single...

The case looked like the plot line of Fifty Shades of Grey with a plot twist of murder...Morgan Jane Smith and Darryl Smith shared an affinity for bondage. For over ten years, she was at his beck and...

Billy was a rookie firefighter when he helped deliver Greta's daughter in a field when she and her husband were stranded and couldn't make it to the hospital. Amazingly, they meet once again in the...

It is the late 1800s, and Emily finally decides to leave her small farm in search of adventure and love. She finds it in one man but soon realizes that he is involved in a battle with one of her...

West Oakland might not be the safest place to live, but for Heather McIntyre it's an upgrade. At least, it seems that way until women from the shelter where she works begin turning up dead. Heather...

Lucy has just gave her heart to Michael and has promised to be his bride. But there's something she can't get out of her mind. Memories of a love, long ago. She made a promise to another young man...

They were some of the coldest, most savage crimes in the entire history of the United States; murder, rape, assault and burglary. Victims were tracked and stalked; the violations committed against...

A DETECTIVE'S NIGHTMARE There he was sitting emotionless and quiet for the past six years in a Los Angeles courtroom, without ever uttering a word in his defense. Lonnie Franklin Jr. also didn't have...

On January 23, 1990, a college student driving around in the outskirts of Portland, Oregon, noticed a body lying in an embankment off the highway. The young woman was half-naked, and investigators...