Fifteen-year-old Enrico Sidoli lived with his loving Italian family in Hampstead, London, and was described as a gentle, musically gifted young man who was often bullied by neighbor boys. On July 8th, 1976, Enrico was swimming at a crowded public outdoor pool on Parliament Hill, Hampstead Heath. Later estimates placed the number of other people … More Enrico Sidoli

Dundee is the fourth-largest city in Scotland and was never known as a particularly high crime area. But in 1979 and 1980, the murders of two women, eleven months apart, put residents of the city on high alert, suspecting that a serial killer might be in their midst. On March 20th, 1979, eighteen-year-old Dundee sex … More The Templeton Woods Murders

Thirty-one-year-old Helen Rosemary Hooper was a teacher and lived with her husband in Broken Green, Standon, Ware, Hertfordshire, England. In 1976, however, she had started seeing another teacher, and made plans to divorce her husband and move in with her lover. Helen told her husband of her plans, there was a bitter argument, and shortly … More Helen Hooper

In November of 1978, the partially clothed body of fourteen-year-old Gary Wilson was discovered under a pile of tires and an old sofa behind an abandoned store on Comet Road in Deptford, southeast London. The boy had been sexually assaulted, strangled with a belt, and stabbed in the chest and neck with shards of broken … More Gary Wilson

Sixty-six-year-old grandfather John Wortley was described by friends and colleagues as a “lovely” man; friendly, honest and caring. He was retired but still worked as a parking attendant in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England for extra money. On June 5th, 1975, John wasn’t scheduled to work but agreed to take a shift for one of his … More John Wortley

Twenty-year-old Jane Bigwood was an art student, living as a squatter with several other people in a block of flats in south London. On October 21st, 1976, she was found stabbed to death in her apartment. The knife she was stabbed with belonged to another squatter named Mervyn Russell, who was thirty-two at the time. … More Jane Bigwood

Eighty-three-year-old Warren Wheeler had spent twenty-seven years as a stoker in the Royal Navy, and later worked as a postman. He lived with his seventy-nine-year-old wife Elizabeth in a house called Yatscombe Cottage in Boars Hill, Oxfordshire, England. The couple had lived in the home for nearly three decades, but it had fallen to rack … More Warren and Elizabeth Wheeler

Thirty-year-old Tom Hewitt owned a garage on Bright Street, Bury, Greater Manchester, England, and was only weeks away from marrying his longtime partner Sylvia, with whom he had a son. Sadly, though, he would never get the chance to walk down the aisle. Tom was working in his garage on September 7th, 1974, when an … More Tom Hewitt

Forty-nine-year-old mother of two Resham Kaur Dhillon lived in a house on Fisher Street, Willenhall, West Midlands, England. On March 5th, 1979, she was found dead in her bedroom, bound and gagged with pieces of her own clothing, and a ligature tied around her neck. The motive for the murder was unclear; there was reportedly … More Resham Kaur Dhillon

It was around Christmastime of 1978 in Scunthorpe, Lincolnshire, England. Seventeen-year-old Walter Taylor had been for a night out to celebrate and was presumably walking home across the Jubilee Playing Fields in Ashby, a nearby suburb. At some point during his journey, however, he was attacked by an unknown assailant. Walter was found dead sometime … More Walter Taylor