On November 9th, 2002, a quiet Saturday afternoon in Harringay, North London, erupted into violence that would leave one man dead and expose deep-seated tensions within the local Turkish and Kurdish communities. Alisan Dogan, a forty-three-year-old father of two and carpenter working an extra shift as a cleaner, became an innocent victim in a mass … More Alisan Dogan
In the early hours of Saturday, November 9th, 2002, Theresa Pamela Jacobs, a thirty-three-year-old mother of three from Bulwell, stepped out of The Drum nightclub on Ilkeston Road in Radford, Nottingham, England. Moments later, as the club was closing and dozens of people milled about on the normally busy city street near Radford Boulevard, she … More Theresa Jacobs
Originally from Norwich, Norfolk, England, twenty-eight-year-old Andrew Charles Brown had moved to London in the late 1990s. He lived alone and ran a busy scooter and motorcycle shop called Trade Scooters Direct on Westcote Road in Streatham, south London. Colleagues and customers remembered him as a friendly, hardworking entrepreneur who had built a successful local … More Andrew Charles Brown
Thirty-year-old Mark Connor, who also used the alias Peter John Joyce, was originally from Ballyfermot in Dublin, Ireland. Before moving to England in the 1990s, he was reportedly one of the biggest drug dealers in west Dublin. He owned multiple properties in England and was linked to large-scale drug smuggling operations, including possible associations with … More Mark Connor
On September 19th, 2001, two-year-old Taia Colwell was killed in Terrigal, a coastal suburb on New South Wales’ Central Coast in Australia. Her death was ruled a homicide after she was deliberately struck with a blunt instrument. Taia was the daughter of Michelle Colwell and her de facto partner, Jeremy Ball. At the time of … More Taia Colwell
On the morning of Friday, June 8th, 2001, a security guard discovered a horrific scene in a shallow ditch off Crooked River Road near Gerroa, on New South Wales’ South Coast in Australia. The partially burned, semi-naked body of twenty-three-year-old Rachelle Leigh Childs lay there, doused in gasoline, particularly on her face and specific areas … More Rachelle Childs
On the morning of Sunday, May 13th, 2001, which was Mother’s Day weekend, twenty-nine-year-old Darryl Ferneyhough vanished from the streets of Halifax, Nova Scotia. A well-liked butcher, active member of the city’s LGBTQ+ community, and someone with no known history of running away or personal troubles, Darryl was last seen running north along Gottingen Street … More Darryl Ferneyhough
On August 10th, 2001, Gary Frank Meier, a fifty-two-year-old successful auctioneer and businessman, was found shot to death inside his sprawling rural home on an acreage near Lacombe, Alberta, about eighty miles south of Edmonton. What appeared at first as a suspicious death quickly became one of central Alberta’s most notorious unsolved homicides, marked by … More Gary Meier
On the early morning of December 28th, 2001, twenty-two-year-old Robert “B.J.” Raymond was fatally stabbed in the chest during a chaotic brawl in a parking lot behind a bar in downtown Sarnia, Ontario. More than twenty-four years later, the case remains unsolved despite repeated appeals from police and a substantial reward for information. At approximately … More Robert “B.J.” Raymond
On the evening of Monday, April 9th, 2001, fifty-five-year-old David George Roads was shot twice in the head at close range in a lit alleyway off Cowper Road in Kingston, southwest London. The killing bore the hallmarks of a carefully planned professional hit, with both bullets fired before he hit the ground and no signs … More David George Roads
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