Seventy-two-year-old Harold Smith lived with his seventy-three-year-old wife Mary in Northfield, Birmingham, England. The couple’s forty-seven-year-old son Harold Smith Jr. also lived in the home; he had been paralyzed in a car crash twelve years prior and was confined to a wheelchair. The family was well-known and well-liked in the area, and had no enemies … More Harold Smith, Mary Smith, and Harold Smith Jr.

Sharon Tyler was twenty-four years old and lived on Church Road in Tilney All Saints, Norfolk, England with her common-law husband. On November 12th, 1991, Sharon’s neighbor had reportedly gone out to get Chinese food when he heard Sharon arguing with a man inside her house. Concerned, he went inside and found a lifeless Sharon … More Sharon Tyler

Thirty-four-year-old Cheryl Shackleton had once run a jewelry shop and later a stained glass business with her husband in Colne, Lancashire, England. The couple had a son together. But in 1991, Cheryl divorced and sold her house in Nelson, taking a substantial sum of cash with her when she left. It was reported that she … More Cheryl Shackleton

Trevaline Evans was fifty-two years old and ran an antique shop called Attic Antiques on Church Street in Llangollen, Denbighshire, Wales. In early June of 1990, she and her husband Richard had been fixing up their vacation house in Rhuddlan, but Trevaline was back at work on June 16th, opening up her store at nine-thirty … More Trevaline Evans

Forty-eight-year-old Brian Adams lived with his girlfriend and three children in a house on Thorndike Avenue, Alvaston, Derbyshire, England. He ran a business replacing windshields on heavy machinery vehicles. On Tuesday, August 14th, 1990, Brian had been to pick up a new Kawasaki motorcycle he’d purchased and was riding it home. He arrived at his … More Brian Adams

Thirty-four-year-old Josephine Berrington was a magistrate at Epsom Magistrates’ Court in Wallington, Surrey, England. She had divorced her husband Gary six years previously, though the pair was still on good terms; Gary had custody of the couple’s two children, aged eight and ten, who had regular visits with their mother. In the spring of 1994, … More Josephine Berrington

Forty-six-year-old widow Linda Chandler lived with her two children, Lisa and Lynette, in a house on a cul-de-sac called Fairbourne Avenue in Kingstanding, Birmingham, England. Her husband had died eight years before, and she supported her family by working as a secretary at Birmingham City University. Neighbors later described her as a “popular” woman, friendly … More Linda Chandler

Twenty-nine-year-old Russell Marsom was a hairdresser who lived in Hunstanton, West Norfolk, England. On the evening of Saturday, March 30th, 1996, he traveled to Cambridge to go clubbing with a friend. This was a journey of about sixty miles. It’s not clear which establishment or establishments he went to that night, though one club called … More Russell Marsom

Eighty-year-old Mary Lazenby was a small but formidable woman; standing only four-foot-eight and having lost one foot in an accident when she was a child, she had moved to Bethnal Green, East London, England back in 1941 with her husband, a merchant seaman, and the couple’s one-year-old son Larry. Mary’s husband was killed in World … More Mary Lazenby

Twenty-year-old Deborah Wood spent the evening of January 4th, 1996 having drinks with her father and a few friends at Big Lil’s pub in Leeds, England. At around nine-thirty p.m., she left the establishment alone and then disappeared. No trace of her was discovered for more than a week. Then, on January 14th, her burning … More Deborah Wood