ABSTRACT

“Murder Alley” was the name given to an unpaved lane near downtown Kenosha, Wisconsin, where seven bizarre homicides took place between 1967 and 1981 (Newton, 1990a). The frequency and unusual nature of the crimes — including a corpse found in a hearse, another buried beneath a rose garden, and a triple homicide — prompted investigators to publicly comment that something strange was happening in this “Bermuda Triangle of murder.”