Twenty-seven-year-old Andre Jan Aylward was a well-liked young man who ran a pet shop in Streatham, a district in Greater London. Jan, as he was known to family and friends, was keenly interested in cars and car stereo equipment, and took great pleasure in working on his distinctive, lowered, black 5-Series BMW, which had an … More Andre Jan Aylward
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
Fifteen-year-old Eric Doratio had been having problems both at home and at school. He was frequently truant, and was thought to be involved with drugs. The last time his mother saw him was on Thanksgiving, November 24th, but later on that same day, Eric was reportedly seen running away from a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania teen shelter. … More Eric Doratio
London, Ontario, lies in the southwestern portion of the province, a little over 100 miles from Toronto. It’s the definition of an average city, in regards to demographics, so much so that it’s often used as a test market for new products being introduced into Canada. But from approximately 1959 through 1984, London, Ontario saw … More Murder City: London, Ontario, Canada
In the autumn of 1954, the murder of a teenage girl would rock the city of Baltimore, Maryland, and provide fodder for a judgmental media keen to cast aspersions on the vilified “greaser” subculture. Carolyn Wasilewski was fourteen years old, though by all accounts she was mature beyond her years, hanging with an older crowd … More Carolyn Wasilewski
Thirty-three-year-old Dr. Michael Meenaghan, nicknamed Spike by his friends, was originally from Glasgow, but had been living in Oxford for quite some time. He was, in fact, a lecturer and research scientist at the Sir William Dunn School of Pathology at Oxford University; molecular biology was his area of expertise. At about four-thirty p.m. on … More Dr. Michael Meenaghan
It was the early morning of Monday, June 20th, 1994. Twenty-two-year-old David Bain, a student at Otago University in Dunedin who had been studying classical music and singing, set out on his part-time paper route, ostensibly leaving the rest of his family sleeping at home. According to his later account, David arrived back at the … More The Bain Family
It was March 20th, 1978 and twelve-year-old Denise McGregor, along with her sister Sharon, were heading out from their home in Pascoe Vale, a suburb of Melbourne, Australia, to pick up some takeout for the family’s dinner. The girls’ mother Carmel was a nurse who often worked the night shift, so the siblings—including Denise, Sharon, … More Denise McGregor
Thirty-one-year-old cafeteria worker Tracey Mertens had been in an on-again, off-again relationship with her boyfriend Joey Kavanaugh since both were teenagers. They had two children together, Daniel and Kelly, but Joey, it seemed, was not the most responsible father; he was an admitted drug addict, and often borrowed money from some unsavory characters in order … More Tracey Mertens
Andrew Moore, known as Andy to friends and family, had been born Nguyen Tan Tai in Vietnam in 1974, but at the age of seven months, had been adopted by Dick and Rita Moore and taken to live in Lebanon, Pennsylvania. There, he grew up an athletic and cheerful child, much adored by his parents … More Andrew Moore
