Nineteen-year-old Brittany McGlone grew up in the Winnsboro area of Texas and had graduated from Winnsboro High School in 2006. At the time of her death, she was working at both the Lowe’s distribution center in nearby Mount Vernon and the ALCO store in Winnsboro. Family accounts describe Brittany as a hardworking young woman who … More Brittany McGlone

On the morning of March 6th, 2007, employees arriving at a business on North 71st Street in Tampa, Florida noticed signs that something was wrong behind the building. A strong odor hung around the rear parking area, and buzzards had gathered nearby. The workers initially believed that an animal had died or been dumped on … More Tracy McClelland

Filmmaker Helen Wingard Hill was born on May 9th, 1970, in Columbia, South Carolina. Her interest in animation appeared early: she reportedly began making short Super 8 films when she was eleven and later studied English and visual arts at Harvard University. After graduating in 1992, she earned a master’s degree in experimental animation from … More Helen Hill

Karen Bodine was born in 1969 and grew up in the Olympia, Washington area. She became a mother at nineteen, giving birth to her eldest daughter, Karlee. She later had another daughter, Taylor, and a son, Tanner. Karen and her children frequently lived with her parents, creating what Karlee later remembered as a close multigenerational … More Karen Bodine

On the evening of August 11th, 2007, Ryan Woolley walked into a takeout restaurant on Picton Road in Wavertree, Liverpool, to collect a pizza. CCTV recorded the twenty-year-old waiting inside the shop. Within seconds of stepping back onto the street, he was shot five times at close range. Ryan was three days away from his … More Ryan Woolley

Dipo Seweje was twenty years old and lived on Orb Street in Walworth, southeast London. Contemporary reporting described him as Nigerian-born and as an asylum seeker living in Britain. Some accounts also identified him as a student, although relatively little has been published about his studies, employment, family or everyday life. At approximately four p.m. … More Dipo Seweje

On the evening of April 27th, 2007, four masked young men entered a flat in central Brixton. Moments later, twenty-five-year-old Alfred Christopher Liverpool—known to his family and friends as Alfie—had been fatally shot. The gunmen fled into the surrounding streets, leaving behind frightened witnesses, a devastated family and a murder investigation that would eventually go … More Alfred Liverpool

On the evening of Sunday, April 15th, 2007, fifty-four-year-old Alan Sheard was walking along Leeds Road in the Thornbury area of Bradford, England. Before the night was over, he became involved in a confrontation that would prove fatal. Alan had been drinking and socializing in local pubs before beginning the walk home along Leeds Road, … More Alan Sheard

On the evening of July 10th, 2007, twenty-three-year-old Colin Marr died from a single stab wound to the chest at the home he shared with his fiancée in Lochgelly, Fife, Scotland. Although police quickly concluded that Colin had taken his own life, his family has spent nearly two decades challenging that assumption, arguing that the … More Colin Marr

Thirty-three-year-old Xiong Zhang was a Chinese national who had come to the United Kingdom seeking economic opportunity. Like many undocumented immigrants, he survived by working in the informal economy. Investigators later revealed that Zhang sold counterfeit DVDs near the River Roding in Barking, East London, a trade that exposed him to both criminal competitors and … More Xiong Zhang