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Do you know who killed Roger Dale Higgins and Shirley Elizabeth Whitten in 1972?
Roger Dale Higgins, aged 26, was found brutally murdered alongside 19-year-old Shirley Elizabeth Whitten on February 22, 1972. The pair were discovered in Oak Grove Cemetery in Wildwood, Florida. Both victims had been stabbed multiple times in what remains one of the region’s most infamous unsolved cases. Investigators determined that Whitten, who worked at a nearby truck stop, and Higgins, a lumper for a trucking company, had no apparent enemies, making the motive for their killings a mystery ...Read More
Roger Dale Higgins, aged 26, was found brutally murdered alongside 19-year-old Shirley Elizabeth Whitten on February 22, 1972. The pair were discovered in Oak Grove Cemetery in Wildwood, Florida. Both victims had been stabbed multiple times in what remains one of the region’s most infamous unsolved cases. Investigators determined that Whitten, who worked at a nearby truck stop, and Higgins, a lumper for a trucking company, had no apparent enemies, making the motive for their killings a mystery ...Read More
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Roger Higgins
December 21, 2022
Male
Caucasian / White
Wildwood
FL
1972-02-22
26
shirley-whitten-wildwood-fl
Roger
Higgins
11/06/2025
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Does anyone else find it eerie how quiet Oak Grove Cemetery is now? It's like the place holds a very... ...Read More
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