Fifty-year-old Alan Wood ran a small gardening business in Lound, Lancashire, England, and also worked part-time at Sainsbury’s supermarket in Bourne. He seemingly had no enemies in the world.
On October 21st, 2009, he was spotted at his local pub, the Willoughby Arms in Little Bytham. But this was to be the last sighting of him alive.
Three days later, work colleagues became concerned when they hadn’t heard anything from him and dropped by his house on Edenham Road to see what was wrong. They were confronted with a shocking and gruesome scene: Alan had been bound with duct tape and stabbed multiple times in the eyes and throat, and it appeared that his attacker had also attempted to decapitate him.
Authorities theorized that Alan had been restrained and tortured to get him to divulge his PINs; this hypothesis was strengthened by the fact that not only were Alan’s bank cards stolen, but someone used them in Bourne and Stanford on October 22nd and 25th to withdraw small amounts of cash.
A DNA profile of the killer has been obtained and entered into a national database, but thus far, there have been no matches, and as of July 2024, the brutal murder of Alan Wood remains unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 