William Newton

A few days before Halloween of 1990, there would be a horrific murder of a handsome gay man in the streets of Tinseltown, a crime that was sadly largely forgotten until recently. William Arnold Newton was originally from Wisconsin, but eventually ended up in Los Angeles in 1985 after wandering around the country for a … More William Newton

Lynne Trenholm

Twenty-nine-year-old Lynne Trenholm lived in the town of Failsworth, in Greater Manchester. Though she had always told her family that she worked as a receptionist, she was actually a sex worker, using the pseudonyms Blondie and Marilyn, and plying her trade out of a brothel-slash-massage-parlor known as Pinky’s, in Boughton. On the morning of Sunday, … More Lynne Trenholm

Sandy Drummond

Thirty-three-year-old Sandy Drummond lived in a cottage in the village of Boarhills, near Fife, Scotland, with his brother James. Sandy had worked as a laborer at the nearby Guardbridge Paper Mill for the past seven years, but in late June, he abruptly quit his job, and also withdrew a large sum of money from his … More Sandy Drummond

The Bolney Torso

On October 11th, 1991, a sixty-two-year-old man by the name of Colin Oliver was walking from Cuckfield back to his home in Burgess Hill, via Broxmead Lane in the village of Bolney, in Sussex. As he wandered a little way off the road to urinate, he was horrified to discover part of a human body … More The Bolney Torso

Johanna Young

It was about seven-thirty p.m. on the frigid, foggy evening of December 23rd, 1992, and fourteen-year-old Johanna Young set out from her home in Watton, Norfolk, England, presumably to visit her boyfriend, Ryan Firman. She was spotted near a chip shop in the city center by a handful of witnesses over the ensuing hour, but … More Johanna Young

Doris Shelley

On the early afternoon of February 11th, 1993, a neighbor entered the bungalow of eighty-two-year-old Doris Shelley in Martlesham, Suffolk. Ever since Doris had been beaten and robbed of all her life savings in a home invasion back in June of 1991—the amount stolen in excess of twelve-thousand pounds—she had been a terrified recluse, and … More Doris Shelley

Colin Ridgway

As the spring of 1993 came into full blossom, a distinguished athlete would be gunned down in his own home in Texas. Fifty-six-year-old Colin Ridgway had been born in Melbourne, Australia, where he began his sports career playing Australian rules football and representing his country as a high jumper in the 1956 Olympics. In 1965, … More Colin Ridgway

Angela Williams

On December 13th, 2001, a woman’s body was discovered off a rural road in Surrey, British Columbia, Canada. Unidentified at first, police noted the distinctive rose tattoo on her back, and initially believed that the woman had died of a drug overdose. Meanwhile, the family of thirty-one-year-old Angela Williams was wondering what had happened to … More Angela Williams