On March 27th, 2004, one of the world’s foremost experts on Sherlock Holmes was found dead in his London apartment under circumstances so strange that they continue to fuel debate more than two decades later. Richard Lancelyn Green’s death was officially ruled a suicide, but the bizarre crime scene, his growing fears in the weeks … More Richard Lancelyn Green
In the early hours of December 7th, 2003, a deliberate arson attack on a ground-floor flat in Green Park, Mackworth, Derbyshire, claimed the life of twenty-four-year-old Kenneth Broughton. His older brother, Neil Broughton, then twenty-six, survived but suffered serious burns and spent months in the hospital. At around four a.m., at least a liter of … More Kenneth Broughton
Twenty-one-year-old Leon Forbes was an ambitious, confident, and outgoing young man with a bright future in the music industry. The father of a young daughter (with another child on the way), he had already achieved notable success. With his band Ghostt, he reached the finals of the 2002 MOBO Unsung awards for unsigned Black artists. … More Leon Forbes
In the early hours of Thursday, October 16th, 2003, fifty-three-year-old Michael John Jones was gunned down outside his front door at Bromleigh House on Abbey Street in Bermondsey, southeast London. He was shot thirteen times, reportedly in the head and abdomen, after apparently answering a knock at his door. Neighbors heard the gunfire shortly before … More Michael Jones
On the evening of Tuesday, August 26th, 2003, nineteen-year-old Justin Maynard was fatally shot in Tugford Close, Moss Side, Manchester, England. He was pronounced dead at the scene after sustaining a single gunshot wound to the head (accounts vary slightly on the exact entry point, with some reports noting the neck or back). The shooting … More Justin Maynard
On the morning of August 26th, 2003, a quiet residential street in Moseley, Birmingham, England, became the scene of a brutal and seemingly motiveless murder that remains unsolved more than two decades later. Naveed Saleem, a thirty-two-year-old successful businessman, was found stabbed to death in the driver’s seat of his £60,000 black Range Rover in … More Naveed Saleem
On August 18th, 2003, sixty-six-year-old Frank Bayley was found dead at his off-license (liquor store) on Hartshill Road in Hartshill, Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire. His body was discovered by police who forced entry into the premises after concerned neighbors reported not having seen him. A post-mortem examination determined that Frank had died from asphyxiation. Frank, who was … More Frank Bayley
On the morning of July 2nd, 2003, a dog walker in the quiet woodland known as Starvation Clump near Nunthorpe, on the edge of Middlesbrough, England, made a chilling discovery. Partially hidden beneath a pile of logs lay the decomposing body of thirty-one-year-old Darren “Duggie” Manders. Darren Manders, known affectionately as Duggie or Dougie to … More Darren “Duggie” Manders
On June 10th, 2003, thirty-two-year-old fisherman and father-of-two Neil Nortrop left his mother’s home in Brixham, Devon, to visit friends in the London area. He has not been seen since. His blue Ford Mondeo vanished with him, and despite an extensive police investigation that treated the case as murder, neither his body nor his car … More Neil Nortrop
In the early hours of May 27th, 2003, a Bank Holiday weekend, residents of a squat in Northbrook Road, Lewisham (in the Lee area of south-east London), were jolted awake by thick smoke. What they discovered inside one of the bedrooms was a scene of calculated brutality: thirty-year-old Brett David Youngs lay dead in his … More Brett Youngs
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