In Great Britain, on Bonfire Night of 2001, a woman would be savagely stabbed to death after setting off fireworks with her family.
It was the evening of November 5th, and twenty-five-year-old Michaela Hague was celebrating Guy Fawkes Day at home in Pitsmoor, Sheffield, with her partner of six years, Mick Holmes, and their five-year-old son.
At some point at around seven p.m., Michaela went off to work; she had been working as a prostitute for approximately the past six months. According to witnesses, Michaela was seen around Bower Street, getting into an old-style, blue Ford Sierra with a roof rack.
An hour later, police were called to an empty parking lot in Spitalfields. Michaela Hague was lying face down on the ground in a pool of her own blood; she had been discovered by a friend of hers who was also working the area.
Amazingly, Michaela was still alive, and was able to give a brief description of her attacker to the first arriving officer on the scene, PC Richard Twigg, who wrote the description down on the palm of his hand. The attacker was a clean-shaven white male in his late thirties, about six feet tall, wearing glasses and a blue fleece jacket. Michaela also noted that he was wearing a wedding ring.
The victim was transported to the hospital and was found to have sustained nineteen stab wounds to her head and neck. Sadly, she died only hours after the assault, though some medical personnel have stated that had Michaela been taken into surgery more quickly, it’s likely she would have survived, as none of the stab wounds was fatally deep.
Investigators did confirm that they had collected some DNA evidence from the crime scene, but did not specify what it was or if it pointed toward a particular suspect. For a time, convicted rapist Peter McDonagh was considered a person of interest, but he was never charged in the murder.
The case underwent a new review by the South Yorkshire Police in 2017, but so far, it appears that there have not been any fresh developments.
Crime Immemorial 