Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947.

On June 14, 2015, sheriff's deputies in Greene County, Missouri, United States, found the body of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard face down in the bedroom of her house just outside Springfield, lying on the bed in a pool of blood from stab wounds inflicted several days earlier.

In the early hours of June 6th, 1992, three women vanished from the Springfield, Missouri, home where two of them lived. The missing women were Sherill Levitt, the homeowner, her 19 year old daughter Suzy Streeter, and Suzy’s friend, 18 year old Stacy McCall.