It was shortly before midnight on Saturday, April 8th, 1961 when several passersby witnessed twenty-two-year-old Irish laborer Patrick Mulligan staggering along the road near Worcester Cathedral in Sidbury, Worcester, England. At first, they thought the man was just drunk, but then he collapsed onto the sidewalk, and they noticed a large quantity of blood streaming … More Patrick Mulligan

Sixty-six-year-old Stanley Blackmore lived with his wife in Bradford Abbas, Dorset, England. He had retired from his job at the Yeovil Corporation Waterworks sometime before and now drove a taxi to keep himself busy. On the afternoon of August 2nd, 1963, he was feeling somewhat ill, but he told colleagues that he was well enough … More Stanley Blackmore

Seventy-four-year-old Annie O’Donnell was a quiet, staunchly Catholic woman who was originally from Ireland. She ran a religious bookstore in Clerkenwell, London, and was a regular church attendee but largely kept to herself. On October 12th, 1962, she was found murdered in the shop. She had been beaten to death, possibly with a fireplace poker … More Annie O’Donnell

Seventy-five-year-old Sidney Leeson was a reserved, unassuming sort of man, well-liked in his neighborhood, and generous to a fault. He lived alone in a terraced house on Sweetbriar Road in Leicester, England, which he’d previously shared with his wife. After his wife died, Sidney was known to take in couples who were down on their … More Sidney Leeson

Louis Bega was originally from India, but moved to the UK in 1946, settling in Eccles, Greater Manchester, England, and finding work in a mill. He married two years later, and he and his wife had two children before separating in 1964. On June 23rd, 1966, Louis Bega, then aged forty-three, was found dying of … More Louis Bega

Dorothy Mills was thirty-two years old, a government file clerk and avid churchgoer who also happened to be a champion tennis player. She was unmarried and lived in West Bromwich, West Midlands, England with her adoptive parents. At around six o’clock on the evening of January 21st, 1961, Dorothy told her parents she was going … More Dorothy Mills

Twelve-year-old Linda Smith was a shy but friendly girl, the eldest child in her large family, which consisted of her parents Robert and Patricia, and five younger siblings. Linda lived with them in a house in Earls Colne, Essex, England. On the afternoon of January 16th, 1961, Linda had come home from school and then … More Linda Smith

Twenty-one-year-old Lesley McMurray was a third-year biology student at Southampton University in England. On June 2nd, 1969, she said goodbye to her boyfriend Charles Gore, then began walking along the Itchen Navigation Canal toward her student accommodations at Montefiore House. At some point along her journey, she disappeared. Friends and family could find no trace … More Lesley McMurray

On the afternoon of June 29th, 1964, fifteen-year-old Yvonne Laker got on a train at Southampton Central Station in England; she was on her way back to boarding school after spending the weekend with her grandparents in Barton on Sea. Seven station stops later, just as the train left Basingstoke, a twelve-year-old boy pushed open … More Yvonne Laker