Twenty-five-year-old George Tweedie lived in Bedworth, Warwickshire, England. On May 7th, 2002, he was found dead in the trunk of a burned-out car in Buxton, Derbyshire. He’d been killed by a blow to the face with a blunt object, likely at his home, before his body was placed in the trunk and the vehicle set on fire.
Not long after the discovery, three people were arrested in connection with the crime: George’s thirty-nine-year-old former girlfriend Karen Redshaw, her forty-year-old estranged husband Colin, and the couple’s nineteen-year-old son Christopher. Though all admitted to charges that they’d concealed the death, none would confess to striking the fatal blow against the victim, with Karen and Colin blaming one another.
It was also revealed that Karen and Colin had sent their son to Amsterdam and Ibiza, and instructed him to write letters to George’s family, pretending to be George.
In 2004, the victim’s family reported getting anonymous phone calls from a man who claimed he knew who had killed George; both relatives and the police believed these calls were genuine.
Ultimately, Colin Redshaw received a five-year sentence, Karen seven years, and Christopher eighteen months for perverting the course of justice, but no one has ever been tried for George’s murder.
The case was reopened in 2020, but as of this writing in December 2024, the crime still stands as officially unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 