Lovers' lane

Examples

• Lovers Lane station is a DART Light Rail station in Dallas, Texas.
• Lover's Lane Bridge is a historic bridge spanning the Dog River in Berlin, Vermont.
• Lovers Lane is a famous road in St. Joseph, Missouri of which a popular poem by Eugene Field was written.
• The area on the south-east side of Fullers Bridge, which crosses the Lane Cove River, and is located near Chatswood, New South Wales, Australia, is a well-known Lovers' Lane.

Crime

• A series of unsolved murders and violent crimes in 1946, dubbed the Texarkana Moonlight Murders, began with two attacks which targeted couples at lovers' lanes in the Texarkana area.
• In Palos Verdes, California, a gang of teens robbed multiple cars on a lover's lane in October 1955, and were caught raping a thirteen-year-old girl.
• In 1963, a lovers' lane site at Fuller's Bridge, Sydney became notorious as the location of the bodies of CSIRO scientist Dr. Gilbert Stanley Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Olive Chandler, the wife of one of his colleagues. The cause of death, while indicative of poisoning, could not be definitively determined, and apart from Mrs. Chandler's husband, Geoffrey, who was considered the prime suspect by the New South Wales Police, no one to-date has been charged. The Bogle-Chandler case has baffled law enforcement and forensic experts up to present day..
• Several of the Zodiac Killer's victims were murdered in lovers' lanes in northern California.
• All victims of the Monster of Florence were couples murdered in lovers' lanes near Florence, Italy
• Several attacks perpetrated by the Son of Sam serial killer also took place in such settings.
• Two Mercer University students were killed by Andy Cook at a lovers' lane location in Georgia on January 2, 1995.

  In popular culture

• A lovers' lane is typically the setting of the urban legend "The Hook," about a young couple menaced by a hook-handed killer.
• Lovers' lanes have featured in numerous popular songs; tracks with that title have been released by Georgio, FireHouse, The Other and Hunx and His Punx. The Go-Betweens' 1988 sixth album was titled 16 Lovers Lane, and the 1992 debut album by M.C. Brains was similarly titled.
• Films titled Lovers' Lane have been released in 1924, 1999, and 2005. Episodes of the television series 77 Sunset Strip and Roseanne also had this title.