The Babes in the Woods case was one of Canada’s oldest and most mysterious cold cases, that of two children murdered in a public park sometime in the 1940s. There were several potential witnesses, but none knew the names of the boys’ killer. Tenacious investigators would not let the boys be forgotten, and held onto some of their remains until science caught up.  This is the story of David and Derek D’Alton.

Alma and Michelle were both from Columbus, Ohio. Both were young Black women.  Both had children. Both led troubled lives involving sex work and drugs.  And both were slain in the 1990s and dumped outdoors in remarkably similar circumstances.  But no one really connected their cases, five years apart and in different counties, until DNA in each case connected to the same unknown killer. When modern investigators flushed him out using IGG, they were not surprised to learn he had other victims. 

The 2003 discovery in a Hell’s Kitchen basement of human remains set off a mystery spanning more than 20 years.  Who was the girl hogtied, wrapped in a carpet remnant, and encased in a cement slab?  The quest for the identity of Midtown Jane Doe consumed NYPD detectives for years.  When IGG finally identified their victim, though, the mystery really began.  Without even a photo of Patricia McGlone, what happened to her, who killed her, and where her baby is remain burning questions that we may never have answers to.