The Generation Why Podcast Blog — unsolved

Suffolk County Police have recently released a photograph of a black leather belt embossed with the initials “WH” or “HW”. The belt is believed to belong to the Long Island Serial Killer and was recovered during the early stages of the investigation. Police are asking for anyone who recognizes the evidence to contact them or post a tip to their website. (Source) In the spring of 2010, a 24-year-old online escort named Shannan Gilbert went missing after placing a frantic phone call to 911 while out on a date in the Oak Beach area. She fled from the client’s house...

 Priscilla Brooten was 40 years old when she decided to uproot her life in the U.S and move to Australia for a fresh start. “I don’t want to get tied down here” she told her friends and family before relocating to Queensland. She spent her early years in Redcliffe, a beautiful and picturesque residential suburb on the coast, before moving over to Brisbane to stay with a boyfriend. Brooten was a literature student and worked as a Zumba instructor and part time cleaner in Brisbane. The former American beauty queen had always been interested in dance and fitness and was...

On Friday the 30th of December 2017 a passerby happened upon the body of a young woman by a dirt road near the McIntosh Dairy in Adams County. The body was quickly reported to local authorities at around 3:15pm that afternoon and police set to work identifying the unfortunate teenager. Although the cause of death was not released (as the case in pending), the identity of the victim was; the body was that of missing 19 year old Broomfield resident Natalie Bollinger who had been missing since the previous day. She left the family home at 12:00pm on Thursday the 29th...

Residents in Seminole heights, Tampa, Florida, are on high alert in fear of what may be a “serial killer on the loose”. Three people have been killed in the street over the last 10 days by an unknown assailant whom the media has dubbed “the Tampa serial killer”. It’s important to note that, at the time of writing this, there has been no official statement that Tampa is dealing with a confirmed serial killer; however the murders are thought to be possibly linked to one individual. Enzo Yaksic, founder of SHEISC (the Serial Homicide Expertise and Information Sharing Collaborative) who...

On Valentine’s Day 2017, the bodies of two missing teenage girls from Delphi, Indiana (13-year-old Abigail Williams and 14-year-old Liberty German), were found at the foot of a hill in the woods near Carroll County, Indiana. (source) (Abby and Libby. Source) Although their causes of death were not publicly released, foul play was evident and a video found on Liberty German’s cell phone (which was also uploaded to her snapchat account), showed the image of an unidentified man along with the audio of a male voice saying “down the hill”. According to this article the killer's DNA was found at...