True Crime Murder Mystery Blog
“Tis strange – but true; for truth is always strange; stranger than fiction.”
It is said that everyone loves a good mystery.
But what is not said is that everyone also loves a good ending to the mystery. In the movies, the mystery is usually resolved after a couple of hours. In literature, the mystery can be solved at one’s own pace– a week, a month, a year, or more.
In real life, however, mysteries rarely evolve as shown on the screen or as written in books. Mysteries are almost never resolved before newstime or bedtime. Many have been solved, but others still lack an ending. Some will likely remain eternal mysteries.
While fiction is fine for some, real-life mysteries are rife and come in a cornucopia of forms. Whether it be crimes, kidnappings, cons, UFOs, buried treasures, the paranormal, or more, the rabbit hole runs deep. Join us in exploring those mysteries together.
Delve in.
Featured Stories
Evidence of an Extraterrestrial Encounter?
Named after Metis poet and songwriter Pierre Falcon, Falcon Lake sits near the southeast corner of Canada's Manitoba province, approximately one-hundred-fifty miles east of Winnipeg. With a...
Fresh Out of Luck
After exercising at a Columbus, Ohio, gym on the morning of May 19, 2002, Tonya McCartor was sweating and her heart was beating rapidly. Although she had cooled down when she left the facility a few...
Hidden Hate
None of her coworkers described her as warm or friendly, but most liked and respected Malaika Griffin. All recognized her intellect; she had graduated magna cum laude with a Chemistry degree from...
Surrendering Power
Emotions were running high in a packed Boston courtroom on October 6, 1993. The subject of the drama was Kathy Power, an ordinary looking middle-aged woman, but one with an extraordinary past. In sentencing the former antiwar radical to eight-to-twelve years in...
Fatal Fare
In the early morning hours of May 17, 1990, a high-speed car chase occurred in Banff, a town of approximately 7,800 people, eighty miles west of Calgary in Alberta, Canada. Two cars raced through...
An Easy Target
It was with reluctance that Beverly Henderson departed her Washburn, Texas, home, approximately twenty miles east of Amarillo in the Texas panhandle, on the morning of May 11, 1991. Along with her...
Given Taken
During the 1970s and early 1980s, the blue-collar community of East Chicago, Indiana, was run by the local political machine. Such organizations run on money, and one of the Windy City's most...
My name is Ian Granstra.
I am a native Iowan now living in Arkansas. Growing up, I was intrigued by true crime/mystery shows and enjoyed researching the featured stories. After I wrote about some of the cases on my personal Facebook page, several people suggested I start a group featuring my writings. My group, now called The Mystery Delver, now has over 55,000 members. Now I have started this website in the hope of reaching more people.