Fifteen-year-old Sean McGann lived with his family in Northampton, England. On April 17th, 1979, he had been to visit his grandparents but left their home between five-thirty and six p.m. to go to a local fair. He was never seen alive again.
The following morning at a little past eight a.m., a passerby found the boy’s body lying in an alley. He had been strangled to death. His glasses and jacket were missing and have never been recovered, while his shoes and belt were found a short distance away from his remains. He was not sexually assaulted, but investigators believe the crime was sexually motivated nonetheless.
Police theorized that Sean had actually been murdered elsewhere and then dumped where he was discovered; it was never determined whether he had made it to the fair or not.
The case went cold rather quickly. Years later, in 1991, the McGann family received a mysterious letter claiming to have some information about the murder, but the writer of the letter was never identified. And in 2019, authorities revealed that there had been strange graffiti scrawled on a wall near the scene, reading “very sorry” and “no I’m not.”
Due to this announcement in the media, there were reportedly some interesting new leads for detectives to follow, but as of 2024, the murder of Sean McGann is still unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 