Thirty-six-year-old John Green was, in 1991, in the process of setting up a marine security company, and had a shop on Poole Road in Branksome, Dorset, England. He had previously used the property for a couple of other business ventures, including a linen company and a shop that restored pianos.
John was spotted around town on February 1st and was seemingly acting completely normally. But at some point between three-fifteen and four p.m. on that same afternoon, two witnesses reportedly saw John being strong-armed into his office by two men. These individuals were allegedly seen leaving the office forty-five minutes later.
The following day, John Green’s fiancée Lori de Carteret entered the shop and found John dead, lying between the desk and the window in the back office. He had been stabbed numerous times in what authorities described as a “frenzied” attack.
Descriptions of the two men seen bundling John into the office on the previous day were released to the public, and later on, the murder was re-enacted on the popular Crimewatch program. Despite the relatively high profile of the case at the time and the offer of a £20,000 reward, the perpetrators were never caught.
A look into John’s past revealed nothing that might have made him the target for such a fate, so police theorized that he may have been the victim of mistaken identity. However, a neighbor of John’s told detectives that she thought she’d heard shouting coming from John’s flat on January 31st, 1991, the day before he was murdered. According to this witness, a woman was threatening to knife someone; this woman was allegedly seen leaving the flat sometime later.
There was a renewed plea for information in 2014, but as of this writing, the brutal stabbing death of John Green remains unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 