Thirty-three-year-old Miriam Culine was known as The Candy Floss Queen, mainly because she was married to fairground boss Fred Culine, who was more than forty years her senior. The fairground in question was located in Spennymore, County Durham, England. At around six-thirty p.m. on the evening of August 21st, 1978, Miriam left a friend’s house, … More Miriam Culine

Fifty-eight-year-old John Armstrong, better known as Jack, worked as a cab driver in south Wales. On October 5th, 1979, he alerted the taxi company that he’d picked up a fare at a pub in Cardiff. It was the last time anyone heard from him. Hours later, his cab was found abandoned near the Waterton Industrial … More John Armstrong

On the afternoon of Tuesday, October 2nd, 1973, fifteen-year-old Jackie Seston was at her home on Mountsteven Avenue in Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England. Somewhere between one-thirty and two-thirty p.m., someone entered the residence, raped her, and stabbed her to death. Not long after the shocking crime, a man named Albert Taylor was arrested. He had been … More Jackie Seston

Thirty-two-year-old Wendy Jenkins lived with her mother and stepfather in Barton Hill, Bristol, England, and in the late 1970s, she had turned to sex work because she was short of money. She was described by friends as a nice girl who had simply fallen on hard times. On the night of Saturday, August 25th, 1979, … More Wendy Jenkins

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