In the mid-summer months of 2007, a quiet residential street in South Woodford, northeast London, became the scene of one of the city’s more unusual and disturbing unsolved homicides. The attack occurred during the early morning hours of Sunday, August 5th, on Priory Close, a residential cul-de-sac in South Woodford. Twenty-four-year-old Daraj Asghar was seated … More Daraj Asghar

On the morning of April 21st, 2007, sixty-one-year-old Henry McHarron was carrying out a routine newspaper-delivery route in north Liverpool, England. It was work he had done many times before: stopping his van, unloading bundles of newspapers and moving on to the next destination while most of the city was still waking. That morning, however, … More Henry McHarron

Forty-seven-year-old Diane Carrington lived in a first-floor flat at 24E Fern Court on Drakefell Road, New Cross, southeast London with her fifteen-year-old daughter. During the night of October 4th, 2007, someone targeted the home with extraordinary violence. According to investigators, gasoline was poured through the front door letterbox before being deliberately set alight. The fuel … More Diane Carrington

Kellie Telesford was a forty-year-old transgender woman originally from Trinidad who had lived in the United Kingdom for many years. Born Kayiode Dexter Telesford, she had been living openly as a woman for several years before her death and was known by friends and acquaintances simply as Kellie. She was a familiar face within London’s … More Kellie Telesford

In the early hours of May 12, 2007, a devastating attack at a travelers’ site in the Cambridgeshire village of Murrow left one woman dead, her husband critically injured, and investigators facing a case that remains unresolved despite an arrest and a murder trial. The victim, seventy-one-year-old Lavinia Branch, was living with her husband in … More Lavinia Branch

On the evening of March 4th, 2006, forty-seven-year-old Jamie Campbell was gunned down in the Drumchapel area of Glasgow, Scotland in what investigators believed was a targeted gangland assassination. The murder took place during a turbulent period in Glasgow’s organized crime landscape, when rival criminal factions were engaged in a series of violent confrontations that … More Jamie Campbell

Twenty-four-year-old Akim Akin Jidie Oriola was a well-liked young man who lived in London, England. At approximately ten forty-five p.m. on Saturday, July 15th, 2006, Akim was inside the Village Bar Chinese takeout restaurant on Hoe Lane in Enfield, north London when he became involved in an argument with another customer. Witnesses reported that the … More Akim Oriola

Jimoh Plunkett, a twenty-four-year-old man from New Cross, south London, had travelled to Ipswich, Suffolk on the evening of December 8th, 2006 to attend an event at Zest Nightclub on Princes Street. The venue was hosting a popular party that drew large crowds from London and across East Anglia. Police later estimated that approximately 800 … More Jimoh Plunkett

On the morning of December 14th, 2006, what appeared at first to be the tragic discovery of a body in one of Scarborough’s most picturesque locations quickly became one of North Yorkshire’s most perplexing unsolved murder investigations. Darryl Craig, a forty-four-year-old local man, was found dead in the shallow waters of a stream running through … More Darryl Craig

Fifteen-year-old Jessie Marvyn James was described by those who knew him as a friendly, outgoing teenager who enjoyed spending time with friends and had ambitions for the future. A pupil at Manchester Academy, he was regarded by teachers as hardworking and well-liked. His mother, Barbara Reid, remembered him as a boy who was kind to … More Jessie James