kporter
Active Member
We're compiling information on unsolved homicides and disappearances and unidentified bodies in the U.S. related to people who traveled by freight train. We're hoping some here might be willing to help. We're including murders on boxcars and victims or suspects who traveled by freight train, or were in railyards or camps. We recently tracked down a large cache of data on train riders compiled in the 1990s by a detective who is now dead but whose family (thank goodness) kept his years of research in a storage unit. From that and our own research, we realized some riders were showing up at homicides in different parts of the country and hadn't been connected by investigators. We also feel these cases are among the least investigated of serious crimes. We've found several that had been forgotten by local LE and not reported to the state cold case database.
We've started a website to provide basic information: Railroad Murders. (It's live, but just so that volunteers can envision what it will look like. We'll eventually add more detail and photos on individual cases.) We've started with Utah and will work our way out, but we're hoping some on here might volunteer to take an area and check databases or newspapers. Anyone got a little time to help?
Karra Porter, Utah Cold Case Coalition
We've started a website to provide basic information: Railroad Murders. (It's live, but just so that volunteers can envision what it will look like. We'll eventually add more detail and photos on individual cases.) We've started with Utah and will work our way out, but we're hoping some on here might volunteer to take an area and check databases or newspapers. Anyone got a little time to help?
Karra Porter, Utah Cold Case Coalition
