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Roger Higgins

Case from Wildwood, FL dated Feb 22, 1972

Victim Details

Roger Higgins

December 21, 2022

Male

Caucasian / White

Wildwood

FL

1972-02-22

26

shirley-whitten-wildwood-fl

Roger

Higgins

06/29/2026


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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 ...
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