🕰️ 117 cases
Crime & Mystery Cases of the 1970s
117 real cases from the 1970s: murders, disappearances, unsolved files. With map, timeline and sources.
1970
The Nancy Bennallack case›The Crewe couple case›The Highway of Tears›The Isdal Woman Mystery›The Kidnapping and Murder of Pierre Laporte›The "Vampire of Bucharest" Case›Davuilevu School Principal Murder›The Gediz Earthquake: A Town Destroyed at Night›The Kent State Shootings›Club Cinq-Sept Fire›Swissair Flight 330 Bombing›The Huascarán Avalanche That Buried Yungay›
1971
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1975
The Jimmy Hoffa case›The "Yorkshire Ripper" Case›The Pier Paolo Pasolini Case›The Killing of Two Travellers in Kathmandu (1975)›Disappearance of Juanita Nielsen›Disappearance of Mona Blades›The Honka Killings in Ottensen›The Circeo Massacre›The Los Galindos Murders›The Murder of Shirley Finn›The Assassination of Journalist Orlando Martínez›Chasnala Mining Disaster›The Murder of J. M. Kariuki›The Assassination of Herbert Chitepo›1975 Lice Earthquake›
1976
The "Son of Sam" case (David Berkowitz)›Anneliese Michel case›THY 452: The Airliner That Hit the Isparta Mountains›The "Ruhr Cannibal" Case›The Fritz Moen Miscarriage of Justice›The Joshi-Abhyankar Murders›The Disappearance of Teacher Elena Quinteros›The Assassination of Orlando Letelier and Ronni Moffitt›The Cubana Flight 455 Bombing›The 6 October 1976 Thammasat University Massacre›1976 Çaldıran–Muradiye Earthquake›
1977
The Tenerife Airport Disaster›The Easey Street Murders›Aybastı blood-feud killing (1977)›Taksim Square May Day 1977›The Truro Murders›Disappearance of Agnès Le Roux›The Missing Young Women of the Yonne›The "Hillside Strangler" Murders›Kidnapping of Hanns Martin Schleyer›The Lucona Affair›Atocha Lawyers Massacre›The Granville Rail Disaster›The Death of Steve Biko in Detention›The Death of Archbishop Janani Luwum›The 1977 Vrancea Earthquake›
1978
The Kidnapping and Murder of Aldo Moro›Bahçelievler massacre›Balgat massacre›The Ted Bundy Case›The John Wayne Gacy Case›The Jonestown Massacre›The "Umbrella Murder" — Georgi Markov›The Moscone–Milk Assassinations›The Murder of Bob Crane›The Los Alfaques Campsite Disaster›The Assassination of Journalist Pedro Joaquín Chamorro›The Cerro Maravilla Murders›The Couple Who Vanished in Kashiwazaki — a North Korean Abduction›Disappearance of Imam Musa Sadr›16 March Beyazıt massacre›Kıdrak Beach: The Attack on the Ambassador's Family›Cinema Rex Fire›The Shooting Down of Air Rhodesia Flight 825›The "Unabomber" Bombings›Maraş Massacre›Assassination of Prosecutor Doğan Öz›Assassination of Hamit Fendoğlu›The Murder of Assoc. Prof. Bedrettin Cömert›
1979
Assassination of Abdi İpekçi›Assassination of Adana police chief Cevat Yurdakul›Yakacık grocer murder, Gaziantep (1979)›Assassination of Cavit Orhan Tütengil›The Whiddy Island Disaster›The Death of Minister Robert Boulin›Killing of Metin Yüksel in the Fatih Mosque courtyard›The Turgutlu Bakery Raid›Lawyer Ceyhun Can Assassinated in His Office›The Assassination of Prof. Fikret Ünsal›The Rotunda PKO Explosion›1979 THY 'Trabzon' Plane Crash›The Independenta Disaster: A Month-Long Fire on the Bosphorus›
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