Seventy-four-year-old George Dean was a retired welder who had served in the Engineering Corp of the British Army. He lived in a house on Honiton Road in Kilburn, London with his younger brother, and had for two decades.
Shortly after four p.m. on July 31st, 1997, George was at the local laundromat, doing his weekly load of laundry. Later witnesses reported that he’d been talking to a younger man for quite some time, and that the conversation had appeared completely normal.
However, at some stage, the man suddenly stabbed George with a three-inch knife in an apparently motiveless attack, then fled the laundromat.
The killer was described as a white man with a Mediterranean appearance, standing about five-foot-ten to six feet tall, and aged between twenty-five and thirty-five years old. He had dark brown hair pulled into a ponytail and was clad in gray jogging pants and a gray t-shirt.
A composite sketch of the killer was released to the public, but as of this writing in October of 2024, the bizarre, broad-daylight murder of George Dean remains unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 