On the evening of December 17th, 2001, twenty-three-year-old Derrick Markel Peterson pulled into a parking space in front of his family’s apartment in the 9600 block of Barrel House Road at The Seasons Apartments complex in Laurel, Maryland. It was around nine p.m. As he stepped out of his blue 1998 Lincoln Town Car with … More Derrick Peterson
In the early hours of December 30th, 2001, residents of Powerscroft Road in Clapton, East London, were confronted with a shocking act of violence that would remain unsolved more than two decades later. Donald Marlow Harriot, a twenty-eight-year-old man, was found beaten to death inside his home. His murder, carried out with a heavy blunt … More Donald Harriot
Thirty-two-year-old Nancy S. Smith was a dedicated professional working as the manager of Payor Contracting for the Greater Hudson Valley Health System at Horton Memorial Hospital in Middletown, New York. She owned her own home, was pursuing a Master’s degree in Public Administration through an accelerated program at Marist College, and was known for her … More Nancy Smith
Elwyn Randall “Randy” White was a forty-year-old man from Barre City, Vermont, who simply vanished in the summer of 2001. Friends and family last saw him in mid-August. On or around August 21st, 2001, his roommate reported him missing to Barre City police. Randy, who stood five-foot-ten and weighed about 160 pounds with shoulder-length black … More Elwyn “Randy” White
On a warm Sunday afternoon in August 2001, a seemingly ordinary traffic stop along Interstate 85 in Jefferson, Georgia, turned into the discovery of a homicide. At approximately noon on August 19th, an officer with the Jackson County Sheriff’s Office pulled over a vehicle near mile marker 134. The driver asked to step into the … More Jackson County Jane Doe
On the evening of Saturday, July 7th, 2001, twenty-three-year-old Mithat Lleshi was fatally stabbed in Northampton, England, in what police described as a targeted group attack in a busy public area. The killing occurred on a walkway between the Grosvenor Centre shopping mall and the local bus station, a relatively central and populated spot in … More Mithat Lleshi
On June 7th, 2001, two men died violently in south London within hours of each other in incidents police quickly linked to the same gang fight. Twenty-three-year-old Donovan Williams was shot dead in a flat in Streatham, while thirty-five-year-old John Dickinson, also known as “Little-John” or “Short-man,” was found fatally stabbed in the grounds of … More Donovan Williams and John Dickinson
On May 11th, 2001, sixty-three-year-old Donald “Don” Banfield walked out of his family home at 146 Lockett Road in Harrow, north-west London, and vanished. A retired betting-shop manager who had spent decades working for William Hill, Banfield left behind a wife, six children, and a turbulent marriage. More than twenty-four years later, his body has … More Don Banfield
Chandra Ann Levy, a twenty-four-year-old intern at the Federal Bureau of Prisons in Washington, D.C., disappeared on May 1st, 2001. Her case became one of the most high-profile missing persons investigations in U.S. history, fueled by a rumored affair with a sitting congressman, intense media scrutiny, investigative missteps, and a later conviction that was ultimately … More Chandra Levy
On May 19th, 2001, in the early hours of the morning, thirty-four-year-old Stephen Lawlor was gunned down in cold blood as he left a party near his home in Netherley, Liverpool. The shooting, which took place in Rosewood Close, marked the beginning of a brutal “tit-for-tat” cycle of violence that would claim at least three … More Stephen Lawlor
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