In the spring of 1980, twenty-two-year-old university student Jessie Earl was elated to have finished her exams, and was looking forward to taking a little break. A second-year graphics student at Eastbourne College of Art and Design in Sussex, England, Jessie lived alone in a small bedsit, but on Wednesday, May 14th, she called her … More Jessie Earl

Only weeks before Christmas of 1984, a young schoolgirl would be waylaid on the way home from a holiday party in England, and her murder would remain unsolved nearly four decades later. Fourteen-year-old Lisa Hession had been attending a small celebration with friends, as well as her sixteen-year-old boyfriend Craig Newell, in the town of … More Lisa Hession

In the early fall of 1988, in the Midwestern United States, a little girl would vanish in the middle of the night from her own bedroom, and her own parents would later be suspected in her murder. Seven-year-old Jaclyn Dowaliby lived in Midlothian, Illinois with her family. She had gone to bed as usual at … More Jaclyn Dowaliby

As the autumn of 1988 approached, a young English woman with a passion for photography and adventure would be brutally cut down while on an African safari. Twenty-eight-year-old Julie Ward worked for a publishing company in Suffolk, England, but had always dreamed of trekking across the Serengeti and capturing the majesty of nature with her … More Julie Ward

As the autumn of 1987 descended, a strange and grimly classic English murder mystery would begin to unfold in a crumbling old manor house in rural Shropshire. Simon Dale had spent much of his career as an architect, following in the footsteps of his father. He mainly focused on restoring country mansions that had fallen … More Murder at the Manor: Simon Dale

In June of 1984, a young woman would disappear from a Stockholm street and later turn up butchered, in a crime that would eventually go on to become Sweden’s most notorious unsolved murder and the inspiration for Stieg Larsson’s internationally best-selling book, The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo. Twenty-eight-year-old Catrine da Costa, a prostitute and … More Catrine da Costa

It was Saturday, June 18th, 1988, and twenty-two-year-old Marie Wilks, seven months pregnant with her second child, had been spending the day in the village of Symonds Yat with her husband Adrian, who was there on a training exercise for the Territorial Army. She was also accompanied by her eleven-year-old sister Georgina, and her and … More Marie Wilks

In the autumn of 1983, in London, England, a wealthy, professional woman would be savagely beaten to death by the side of the road, and though many strange clues hint at an unusually intriguing mystery surrounding her slaying, it remains unresolved more than three decades later. Thirty-six-year-old Janice Weston was a successful solicitor, a partner … More Janice Weston: The A1 Murder

Twenty-six-year-old Deborah Linsley was originally from Bromley, southeast London, though she had since moved to Edinburgh, Scotland to work as a hotel manager at a Sheraton there. In late March of 1988, though, Deborah had taken three days off work to attend a hotel management course in London, and while there, she was spending some … More Deborah Linsley