Karen Bodine was born in 1969 and grew up in the Olympia, Washington area. She became a mother at nineteen, giving birth to her eldest daughter, Karlee. She later had another daughter, Taylor, and a son, Tanner. Karen and her children frequently lived with her parents, creating what Karlee later remembered as a close multigenerational … More Karen Bodine
On the evening of August 11th, 2007, Ryan Woolley walked into a takeout restaurant on Picton Road in Wavertree, Liverpool, to collect a pizza. CCTV recorded the twenty-year-old waiting inside the shop. Within seconds of stepping back onto the street, he was shot five times at close range. Ryan was three days away from his … More Ryan Woolley
Dipo Seweje was twenty years old and lived on Orb Street in Walworth, southeast London. Contemporary reporting described him as Nigerian-born and as an asylum seeker living in Britain. Some accounts also identified him as a student, although relatively little has been published about his studies, employment, family or everyday life. At approximately four p.m. … More Dipo Seweje
On the evening of April 27th, 2007, four masked young men entered a flat in central Brixton. Moments later, twenty-five-year-old Alfred Christopher Liverpool—known to his family and friends as Alfie—had been fatally shot. The gunmen fled into the surrounding streets, leaving behind frightened witnesses, a devastated family and a murder investigation that would eventually go … More Alfred Liverpool
On the evening of Sunday, April 15th, 2007, fifty-four-year-old Alan Sheard was walking along Leeds Road in the Thornbury area of Bradford, England. Before the night was over, he became involved in a confrontation that would prove fatal. Alan had been drinking and socializing in local pubs before beginning the walk home along Leeds Road, … More Alan Sheard
On the evening of July 10th, 2007, twenty-three-year-old Colin Marr died from a single stab wound to the chest at the home he shared with his fiancée in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland. Although police quickly concluded that Colin had taken his own life, his family has spent nearly two decades challenging that assumption, arguing that the … More Colin Marr
Thirty-three-year-old Xiong Zhang was a Chinese national who had come to the United Kingdom seeking economic opportunity. Like many undocumented immigrants, he survived by working in the informal economy. Investigators later revealed that Zhang sold counterfeit DVDs near the River Roding in Barking, East London, a trade that exposed him to both criminal competitors and … More Xiong Zhang
Sixteen-year-old Jonathan Matondo had been born in the Democratic Republic of the Congo before moving to England with his family when he was a young child. By all accounts from relatives and church leaders, he was a bright, personable teenager with a strong religious faith. Members of the Light of Christ Church in Burngreave remembered … More Jonathan Matondo
On the evening of November 14th, 2007, seventeen-year-old Etem Celebi was shot and killed just yards from his family home on the Smalley Close Estate in Stoke Newington, Hackney, North London. His death became one of the defining tragedies of London’s surge in teenage gun and knife violence during 2007, a year in which more … More Etem Celebi
In the mid-summer months of 2007, a quiet residential street in South Woodford, northeast London, became the scene of one of the city’s more unusual and disturbing unsolved homicides. The attack occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, August 5th, on Priory Close, a residential cul-de-sac in South Woodford. Twenty-four-year-old Daraj Asghar was seated … More Daraj Asghar
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