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Some criminal cases slip through the cracks of public consciousness despite their horrifying nature. Join us as we explore the forgotten atrocities of the 1990s that never made headlines. From mysterious disappearances to brutal murders, these shocking crimes went largely unnoticed but deserve to be remembered. Which case will leave you most disturbed?
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00:00Police have released this old nasty letter sent to the informant decades ago, warning him,
00:05people like you deserve what you get.
00:08Welcome to WatchMojo.
00:10And today, we're discussing appalling crimes of the 90s that flew under the radar.
00:16I'm watching cheese hunt here.
00:19Shots me for us, but we'll let it go.
00:21The disappearance of Tracy Pittman Kegley.
00:25This is not today.
00:26And what I mean by that is, you can't ping a cell phone.
00:31We don't have cell towers to know was she in this location or that location.
00:36Just two weeks after her divorce was finalized, and one day before starting a new job,
00:41Tracy Kegley seemingly vanished into thin air.
00:45She and her two-year-old daughter had been living with their parents since separating from her husband a few months earlier.
00:51On the evening of April 26, 1998, Kegley and her daughter hopped into the car to run to a gas station in Wetumpka, Alabama.
00:59Robinson revealed cadaver dogs found evidence that a body had been decomposing on 300 acres of land owned by family of Tracy's ex-husband.
01:10But they never came home.
01:12The next morning, a passerby found Kegley's car on the side of the road.
01:16The engine was idling and the windows were cracked, and Kegley's daughter was still inside, unharmed.
01:22Although police believe Kegley was murdered, her body has never been found, and her disappearance remains a mystery.
01:30We're bringing in assets from all over the country.
01:33It's probably going to be one of the largest searches conducted in the southeast.
01:38The Satanic Versus Murder
01:40Will you be looking to the British authorities in any form for any kind of protection as a result of this?
01:45I think I must.
01:46I think I've honestly, I've just heard the news, and obviously that is something I may well have to think about.
01:51Writer Salman Rushdie is best known for his 1988 novel, The Satanic Versus, which features the Prophet Muhammad and other figures from Islam as characters.
02:02Many Muslims found the book highly offensive.
02:05And in 1989, Ayatollah Rohala Khomeini of Iran called for the death of Rushdie and his publishers.
02:13Yesterday, the Ayatollah Khomeini said Mr. Rushdie and everyone involved in the publication of his book should be murdered.
02:19Now, one of the Ayatollah's aides has offered a million pounds to anyone who will do it.
02:25Rushdie survives to this day, despite multiple attempts on his life.
02:29But the Japanese translator of his book, Hitoshi Igarashi, wasn't so lucky.
02:34Igarashi was a scholar of Arabic and Persian literature.
02:38And on July 12, 1991, his body was found in his office at the University of Tsukuba with multiple stab wounds.
02:46His killer was never found.
02:48Rushdie's Italian and Turkish translators and Norwegian publisher were also attacked.
02:53But all survived.
02:55The response from the West was a confused affair.
02:59Whilst the New York Times was one of the few voices to unambiguously declare murder is no form of literary criticism,
03:06John Le Carre called Rushdie arrogant and accused him of self-canonization.
03:10The disappearance of Suzanne Lyall.
03:13I'm hoping, I keep hoping, every time I do an interview, I always say at the end,
03:19I know there's somebody out there who has information to answer that piece to my puzzle.
03:24This case got surprisingly little national attention when it happened, though it's become more famous in the years since.
03:32On March 2, 1998, Albany College student Suzanne Lyall left her job at a computer store at 9 p.m.
03:39She took a bus back to campus, got off at a stop not far from her dorm, and vanished.
03:45Doug's daughter Suzanne disappeared from the campus nearly six months ago.
03:49Since then, the university police have come up with 10 new safety measures going into effect this fall.
03:54No one has seen her since.
03:56The strangest part of the case is that Lyall's debit card was used to withdraw cash from two different ATMs the following day.
04:04But supposedly, only she and her boyfriend knew the PIN number.
04:08The boyfriend has long been a person of interest in Lyall's disappearance, despite having an alibi.
04:13Today, investigators still have no idea what happened to Suzanne.
04:18It's disturbing to us that the family and Susie's boyfriend, Rich, choose not to answer questions at this point to maybe illuminate or to revisit some of the unanswered questions.
04:33The murder of Stanley Edwards.
04:36This is certainly one of the more disturbing cases to come out of the 90s.
04:4118-year-old Todd Rizzo and 13-year-old Stanley Edwards lived in the same quiet neighborhood in Waterbury, Connecticut.
04:48Rizzo was known to have an unhealthy obsession with serial killers, especially Jeffrey Dahmer, who had once said that one of his goals in life was to kill someone.
04:59On the evening of September 30th, 1997, Rizzo stopped Stanley Edwards as Stanley rode his bike past Rizzo's house.
05:06He invited Stanley to come into his backyard to look for snakes.
05:10Once they were back there, Rizzo bludgeoned Stanley to death with a sledgehammer.
05:15He later told police he did it for no good reason.
05:18And that it was just an urge.
05:20The murder of Sophie Tuscane Duplantier.
05:23The investigation into the brutal killing of Madame Sophie Tuscane Duplantier has been going on for seven weeks.
05:30Two days before Christmas, her body was found in the narrow laneway in front of her holiday home at Tourmour near Skull in West Cork.
05:37You might have heard about this case if you lived in France or Ireland.
05:41Tuscane Duplantier was a TV producer from Paris who owned a cottage in County Cork, Ireland.
05:47She went there alone in late December 1996, planning to return home by Christmas.
05:53On the morning of December 23rd, a neighbor found her body outside.
05:57She was wearing only pajamas and boots and had severe injuries all over her head and face.
06:03The state pathologist was called but didn't get there till the following day.
06:08This morning, the body was removed from the scene, followed in a car by state pathologist Dr. John Harbison.
06:14A local man with a history of violence was strongly suspected but never charged.
06:19Irish police were later criticized for botching the investigation and Ireland refused France's request to extradite the suspect.
06:27A French court convicted him in absentia, but he remained a free man until he died in 2024.
06:34One last question, which is to put on the record.
06:36Yeah.
06:37Ian, did you murder Sophie Tuscane Duplantier?
06:41No.
06:41The murder of Ebony Simpson.
06:45This week marks the 30th anniversary of Ebony's killing near Bargo, southwest of Sydney.
06:51On August 19th, 1992, Andrew Garforth committed a horrific crime of opportunity.
06:58Nine-year-old Ebony Simpson was walking home from the school bus stop in Bargo, Australia, when Goforth grabbed her.
07:04He threw her in the trunk of his car and drove to a wildlife sanctuary just a few miles away.
07:10There, he tied up Ebony.
07:11Assaulted her and tossed her in a dam while she was still alive.
07:15The details of her fate are almost too much to bear.
07:19But as her family tries to process the news, they are to endure even further heartache.
07:24She drowned, and her body was found two days later.
07:28Garforth, who had a rap sheet a mile long, was arrested and immediately confessed.
07:32And it was later revealed that he had actually joined in the search party before Ebony was found.
07:38Australia doesn't have the death penalty, so Garforth is serving life in prison.
07:44And you'll never be out in the street again.
07:45You'll never be in public.
07:46You won't be able to harm anyone else.
07:48So I'm happy with that.
07:49I think, you know, it was natural that people wondered, you know, did the boyfriend do it type thing.
07:57But my feeling, I've known the kid all his life, and I never doubted for a minute that he had anything to do with it.
08:07It sounds like something out of a horror movie.
08:1020-year-old Angie Hammond dropped off her fiancé at his house in Clinton, Missouri, at around 10 p.m. on April 4th, 1991.
08:18About an hour later, she called him from a payphone downtown.
08:21While they were talking, Hammond noticed a suspicious-looking truck driving around the block.
08:26While we were talking on the phone, she mentioned to me about a truck circling around the block, an older model, green Ford pickup truck.
08:32It's not a pickup truck that keeps circling around the block.
08:34Do you recognize the truck?
08:36No.
08:37He then told her fiancé that the truck had stopped and a man was coming toward her.
08:42Her fiancé heard her scream.
08:43And then she was gone.
08:45No trace of her was ever found, but a ransom note sent to a different family might be a clue.
08:50Police now believe that Hammond was abducted by mistake, and that her kidnapper thought she was the daughter of a criminal informant.
09:05The Murders of Leigh Ann Oliver and Patricia Leedy
09:09They locked up this killer once before, but they should have kept him there.
09:13On October 29, 1995, on a beach in Queensland, Australia, Paul Osborne assaulted 10-year-old Leigh Ann and 9-year-old Patricia and beat them to death.
09:24Osborne had been drinking heavily and taking illicit substances at a barbecue earlier that day, and later told the cops that he didn't know why he did it.
09:33Ten years earlier, he'd been convicted of assaulting and trying to strangle an 18-year-old woman, and had spent less than four years in prison.
09:41That punishment was clearly far too lenient.
09:45The Pizza Killers
09:46Late in the evening on April 19, 1997, Tony's Pizza and Pasta in New Jersey got a call for a delivery order for two cheese pizzas.
09:55Driver Jeremy Giordano hopped in his car to deliver the pizzas, but owner Giorgio Galara had a bad feeling about the call, so he decided to tag along.
10:05When they arrived at the address, it turned out to be an abandoned house in a remote area.
10:1018-year-old Thomas Koskovich and 17-year-old Jason Vreeland were waiting for them.
10:16When Galara rolled down his window, the two boys pulled out guns and unloaded on the men.
10:21During interrogation, they said they just wanted to see what it felt like to kill somebody.
10:26With no provocation and no warning, one of our society's most vulnerable members, a pizza delivery boy, was murdered in cold blood while making a routine delivery in the Ghost Town neighborhood.
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10:56The I-95 Killer
10:58It was real difficult to see him face to face. It really was.
11:03I just still can't believe, you know, that all this has happened.
11:08Despite murdering six people in just eight months, this serial killer got surprisingly little national attention, probably because all of his victims were gay men.
11:19Gary Ray Bowles left home at a young age to escape his stepfather's abuse.
11:24He drifted around the country for years, doing sex work to get by.
11:28He spent a few years in prison for assaulting his girlfriend and eventually ended up in Daytona Beach, where he began his killing spree in March 1994.
11:37How did you feel after he was leaving his body behind?
11:41I don't know. I felt all right, you know. There's not really a way to describe it, you know. It's just, I guess, relief.
11:48Bowles made his way up Interstate 95, picking up men in bars, beating them, and strangling them.
11:54He was caught just six days after his last murder, and it didn't take him long to confess.
12:00Following his arrest, Walter Hinton's family, the man Bowles admitted to dropping a concrete block on his head and strangling, called for one answer.
12:08I want him to get the death penalty.
12:11Which of these crimes shocked you the most? Let us know in the comments below.
12:16You
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