Here you will find unknown, tragic and unsolved murders committed in the United States during World War II. Sources: “Missing Persons” G. Greene, “Daily Southern Magazine” 09-04-1945,

Murders obscured by the whirlwind of World War II 

Around April 1940, the murder of two six-year-old twins under unclear circumstances occurred in Bel Air.Due to the war at the time, the local court was closed and replaced by a much less effective MilitaryCommission, which failed to track down the perpetrators. After this tragedy, an urban legend arose about thelost souls of the twins wandering the corridors of the local courthouse.

The Lost Chapter Of Bel Air's History

At the end of World War II as the Allies were taking over Berlin, a twelve-year-old boy went missing in Edna Hill in the southern United States. He was the son of the owner of a roadside store frequented by passing motorists. According to the shopkeeper and local residents, the boy was abducted by a strange man who stayed at a nearby motel for two days. He inquired about kindergartens in the area and hunting stores, among other things. The man was never later found, nor was the missing boy or body.

Roadside Store Mystery

Missing Persons is a memoir about dealing with death in a culture that gives no help. As the last of her family, Greene’s losses are stark, first her aunt, then her mother, in quick succession. She is as ill-equipped for the challenges of caring for a dying person at home as she is for the other losses, long repressed, that rise to confront her at this time: the suicide of her younger brother, the death of her father. As the professional identity on which she’s based her selfhood comes to feel brittle and trivial, she is catapulted into questions of “who am I?” and “what have I done with my life?” The memoir is structured as an account of her mother's and aunt’s final days and the year that follows, a year in which she reconstructs her life. This is a powerful story about family, what it means to have one, to lose one, never to have made one, and what, if anything, might take its place. It’s the story of a vexed mother-daughter relationship that mellows with age. It is also a search for home, as the very landscape shifts around her and the vast orchards are dug up and paved over for tract housing, strip malls, freeways, and the Santa Clara Valley, once known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight, is transformed to “Silicon.”

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Missing Persons is a memoir about dealing with death in a culture that gives no help. As the last of her family, Greene’s losses are stark, first her aunt, then her mother, in quick succession. She is as ill-equipped for the challenges of caring for a dying person at home as she is for the other losses, long repressed, that rise to confront her at this time: the suicide of her younger brother, the death of her father. As the professional identity on which she’s based her selfhood comes to feel brittle and trivial, she is catapulted into questions of “who am I?” and “what have I done with my life?” The memoir is structured as an account of her mother's and aunt’s final days and the year that follows, a year in which she reconstructs her life. This is a powerful story about family, what it means to have one, to lose one, never to have made one, and what, if anything, might take its place. It’s the story of a vexed mother-daughter relationship that mellows with age. It is also a search for home, as the very landscape shifts around her and the vast orchards are dug up and paved over for tract housing, strip malls, freeways, and the Santa Clara Valley, once known as the Valley of Heart’s Delight, is transformed to “Silicon.”

Missing Persons

Murders obscured by the whirlwind of World War II

The Lost Chapter Of Bel Air's History

Roadside Store Mystery

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