Crime Immemorial

Thirty-six-year-old Helen Gormley was a teacher who lived in Towcester, Northamptonshire, England with her husband and their six-year-old daughter.

On October 30th, 1986, Helen’s husband left the family home at twelve-thirty p.m. to take their daughter to the movies in Milton Keynes. Helen stayed behind at their residence, but when he brought the child home at about five-thirty, Helen was gone.

Oddly, she hadn’t taken anything with her, such as money or extra clothing, and no cash was ever withdrawn from her account. The date she vanished was only a few days before her daughter’s seventh birthday, and only a week before a trip to London she had planned to visit her brother.

Her family made numerous pleas in the media for her return, but their questions went unanswered. Shortly after her disappearance, witnesses reported to authorities that they had seen a woman matching Helen’s description in a public bathroom in Buckingham, and she had inquired about a nearby café. She was later apparently seen at this establishment, Barons Grill, and other patrons claimed she looked “dazed.”

Helen Gormley has never been seen since, and though she was treated as a missing person for many years, authorities in 2015 changed the status of her case to a murder investigation. The fate of the thirty-six-year-old schoolteacher is still unknown, nearly forty years later.