Twenty-year-old Barbara Forrest was a devoutly religious young woman, heavily involved with St. Mark’s Lutheran Church in Birmingham, England, even acting as national secretary for their youth group. Her twenty-one-year-old boyfriend Simon Belcher was just as active, and in fact his father Peter Belcher was the pastor at St. Mark’s. On May 27th, 1974, Barbara … More Barbara Forrest

Seventy-nine-year-old Bridgid “Mary” Hynds was something of a solitary figure, living alone on Willes Road in Kentish Town, London. She was sometimes seen in the area feeding pigeons near the underground station or having a pint in the Wolsey Arms pub, where regulars called her Mollie. On July 21st, 1973, Bridgid was found lying in … More Bridgid “Mary” Hynds

Thirty-three-year-old mother of four Nora Wilfred was originally from Risca, Wales, and had recently fallen on hard times, regularly traveling the fifteen miles into the capital city of Cardiff to make her living as a sex worker. On December 4th, 1972, Nora was looking for business in the Docks area when something horrible befell her. … More Nora Wilfred

Fifty-five-year-old Renee McGowan was a divorced woman who lived alone in a corner flat on the top floor of a fourteen-story building called Evans Towers in Ternhill Grove, Bradford, West Yorkshire, England. According to neighbors, she was always well-dressed, friendly, and pleasant, but was reserved and mostly kept to herself. She had told acquaintances she … More Renee McGowan

Fourteen-year-old Judith Roberts was a pretty, intelligent schoolgirl who lived with her family in the village of Wigginton, in Staffordshire, England. On the early evening of June 7th, 1972, she had a minor argument with her parents and decided to go out for a ride on her bicycle along Comberford Lane. She set out around … More Judith Roberts

Seventeen-year-old Caroline (or Carolyn) Allen had been at a babysitting job in Bramcote, Nottinghamshire, England on April 10th, 1974. She was planning to catch a bus for the fifteen-minute ride back to her home in Kinoulton, but somewhere along the route, she completely vanished. For more than a year, her fate was unknown, but then, … More Caroline Allen

Twenty-four-year-old Rosina Hilliard had been making her living as a sex worker in Leicester, England for some time. On February 22nd, 1974, her body was found lying across a road on a building site in Highfields. It appeared that her killer had attempted to strangle her, as there were compression injuries to her neck, but … More Rosina Hilliard

Seventeen-year-old Heidi Mnilk was German but was living in London, England, working as an au pair. On Monday, July 9th, 1973, she was riding on a train when she was approached and stabbed by an unknown attacker and thrown out of the carriage onto the tracks between the London Bridge and New Cross stations, near … More Heidi Mnilk

Emmy Werner was certainly no stranger to tragedy. Though she had lived a pleasant life with her husband Albert, a dentist, and their daughter Hedy in Brno, Czechoslovakia, all that changed in 1939, with the German occupation. Three years later, she and her family were sent to Theresienstadt concentration camp near Prague, and two years … More Emmy Werner

Twenty-three-year-old Nancy Perry Baird was a divorced mother of a four-year-old son and worked as a service station attendant at a Fina gas station on south Highway 89 in East Layton, Utah. She was working there on the afternoon of July 4th, 1975, and was spotted by a patrolling police officer at around five-thirty p.m., … More Nancy Perry Baird