Top 5 March Mysteries

What were the most captivating and puzzling mysteries published by our writers in March?

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Her Parents Found Her Dead, Curled Up on the Floor of the Closet

“A quaint apartment in Lewiston, Maine, still holds secrets that remain unrevealed to this day. Samantha Folsom’s death was ruled “undetermined” despite her body being found stuffed in a closet and her apartment set up to destroy forensic evidence. A year after she was found by her parents, the police classified her death as a homicide but her official cause of death has never been released to the public,” writes Rivy Lyon.

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Carolyn Celeste Eaton Has Her Name Back After Almost Forty Years

“When I typed the name ‘Valentine Sally’ into the search engine, the results I saw were not what I expected. Every single article that popped up contained the word ‘identified’. At first, I thought I must have made a mistake. But as it turns out, only a few days ago, Valentine Sally was identified as Carolyn Eaton, after thirty nine years,” writes Natasha Mullins.

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The Giggling Granny

“The Giggling Granny, the Lonely Hearts Killer, the Jolly Black Widow, and Lady Bluebeard are not names generally associated with a sweet, little old grandmother. However, Nancy (Nannie) Hazel Doss earned each and every moniker after her shocking confession in October 1954,” writes Kassondra O'Hara.

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The Death of a Scoundrel

“Few had a good word to say of Serge Rubinstein — he was a crook, a scoundrel, and a swindler. The man had few friends yet had an immense talent for acquiring wealth through fair means and foul. This money opened doors for the young man and created an endless stream of enemies across New York that eventually led to his downfall. In 1955, one of those enemies would have enough of Rubinstein, murdering him at his Manhattan mansion. The killing is unsolved to this day and remains one of the most intriguing affairs in New York City’s history,” writes Michael East.

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The Great Plymouth Mail Truck Robbery

“On August 14th 1962, a mail truck set off from Plymouth in Massachusetts to the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. It had made its regular rounds to collect money from smaller branch post offices in Cape Cod, and the journey that pleasant summer’s evening should have been a straightforward one.

The truck never reached its destination. Instead, it became part of what would be the then-largest cash heist in US history,” writes Verity Partington.

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