Helen Bailey

On the afternoon of August 10th, 1975, eight-year-old Helen Bailey left her home in Great Barr, Birmingham, England to play nearby. However, she never returned from her excursion, and her alarmed mother reported her missing that night. The following day, the girl’s body was discovered in the woods near Booths Farm by her father after … More Helen Bailey

Harry Baker

On June 7th, 1958, sixty-one-year-old credit draper Harry Baker was due to visit a house at a little past one p.m. It was a Friday, and he had a specific route he followed every week to collect payments from families who had bought textiles or drapery on credit. He never made his one-ten appointment, though … More Harry Baker

King D. Gray

King David Gray was originally from Virginia but moved to Hollywood, California as a young man to work in the burgeoning movie business in the early years of the 20th century. Starting as a lighting technician, King eventually became a cinematographer; his first credit in that profession was the 1915 film The College Orphan. He … More King D. Gray

Jeanne Van Calck

It was the cold winter evening of February 7th, 1906 in Brussels, Belgium, and eight-year-old Jeanne Van Calck set out from her grandparents’ house at about six-thirty p.m. to visit her mother, as she did for a few hours every evening. Jeanne had lived with her grandparents for some time, since her father had abandoned … More Jeanne Van Calck

Pamela Hastie

In November of 1981, sixteen-year-old Pamela Hastie was walking home from school in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland. As she cut through Rannoch Woods not far from her home, she was attacked by an unknown assailant, who hit her over the head with a piece of wood, dragged her into the bushes, raped her, then strangled her … More Pamela Hastie

Michele Brown

March 1st, 1992 was Michele Brown’s twenty-fifth birthday, and she spent the first part of it at a friend’s house in Frankston, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. At some point in the early evening, she and her friend walked to a local grocery store, where Michele called her mother from a payphone, asking her to come to … More Michele Brown

Carmel Gamble

On November 12th, 1989, which was Remembrance Sunday in the UK, firefighters responded to a blaze at a holiday cottage in Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire, in southwest England. Inside, they discovered the remains of forty-three-year-old Carmel Gamble. But it soon became clear that the dead woman had not been killed by the fire, but by savage … More Carmel Gamble

Jeanette Kempton

Thirty-two-year-old mother of two Jeanette Kempton, better known as simply Jean, was last seen alive leaving the Loughborough Hotel in Brixton, south London, England, on February 2nd, 1989. For two long weeks after this sighting, her whereabouts were unknown. Then, on February 18th, two hunters came across her decomposed remains lying in a ditch on … More Jeanette Kempton

Tracy Main

It was February 5th, 1980, and thirteen-year-old Tracy Main had stayed home sick from school. Both her parents went off to work as usual. The family lived in a flat in a tower block in the Gorbals, an area of Glasgow, Scotland. When Tracy’s mother came home from work, she made a horrifying discovery: her … More Tracy Main