On the evening of Valentine’s Day, February 14th, 1983, eleven-year-old Tracey Waters waved goodbye to her mother and headed out from her home in Johnstone, Renfrewshire, Scotland, near Glasgow, to go to a nearby youth club. It was the last time she was seen alive. When her daughter didn’t return, Tracey’s mother Margaret walked around … More Tracey Waters
Five-year-old David Lawrence lived with his parents, Joyce and George, in a block of flats on Manciple Street in Southwark, south London. On the afternoon of March 8th, 1968, the child had gone shopping with his aunt, and then, after returning home, headed over to play on the swings at Tabard Gardens, a small park … More David Lawrence
Nineteen-year-old Jennifer Ronaldson was a nurse at Guy’s Hospital in London, England, a quiet and devoted young woman with seemingly no enemies in the world. In late October of 1980, Jennifer was having a cup of tea with her friends in the hospital cafeteria just after her shift ended at two in the afternoon. She … More Jennifer Ronaldson
Twenty-five-year-old Alison Morris was a post-graduate student who had just been offered her choice of two jobs as a university lecturer: one of the jobs was in Salford, Manchester, England, and the other was in Liverpool. Alison herself lived in Essex with her mother and father, and had just recently returned from a holiday in … More Alison Morris
On November 12th, 1948, a woman named Irene McNamara left her home in Middlesbrough, England, and went out to her job as a cleaner. She was a widow—her husband had died in 1946—and she worked hard to provide for her three children, which included a twenty-two-month-old toddler named Terence. She left the baby in the … More Terence McNamara
On the morning of December 12th, 1945, a severed arm was found on the shore in Torry, Aberdeen, Scotland. Though the rest of the remains were never found, police were able to identify the arm as belonging to Elizabeth “Betty” Hadden; the seventeen-year-old maid and waitress’s fingerprints were on file from a previous arrest for … More Betty Hadden
Thomas Weldon Atherstone (born Thomas Weldon Anderson) was originally from Liverpool, England, and became a prominent actor in the English music halls around the end of the nineteenth century. He was married to an Irish actress named Monica Kelly for a time, but the pair separated in 1900, after which Thomas took up with another … More Thomas Weldon Atherstone
Ten-year-old Elizabeth “Lizzie” Peers lived with her parents, Elizabeth and William, and her five brothers in Toxteth, Liverpool, England. On October 28th, 1905, Lizzie’s mother asked her to go to a nearby butcher shop to buy pork and potatoes; the shop was only a six-minute walk from the family’s residence. In spite of the proximity, … More Elizabeth Peers and Margaret Kirby
Between four and four-thirty on the sunny afternoon of June 11th, 1906, in Heathfield, Camberley, Surrey, England, a sixty-two-year-old woman named Caroline Hogg was spotted running through the grounds of her large estate, clutching her bleeding throat and screaming, “I’m murdered, I’m murdered!” Upon investigation, it was discovered that both Caroline and her sixty-eight-year-old sister … More Mary Anne Hogg
On January 29th, 1990, thirty-three-year-old financial adviser Surinder Gill dropped his daughter and his brother’s children off at school in the morning as he usually did, and then drove to his West London office in his distinctive maroon Mercedes. At around lunchtime, he was spotted buying a sandwich from a shop in South Road, and … More Surinder Gill
