Thirty-four-year-old Sarah Melia was a mother of two and worked at a launderette near her home in Horwich, Lancashire, England. According to her mother Marian, she was a kind-hearted woman and a wonderful mother to her children, Meghan and Ethan. On January 14th, 2008, Sarah’s teenage daughter came home to find her mother dead at … More Sarah Melia
Over the course of one year in the late 1950s and early 1960s, a terrifying killer roamed the streets of Los Angeles, California, targeting older women in a series of brutal, sexually motivated crimes. His identity remains a mystery to this day, and though he goes by many names, his most common appellation is the … More The Bouncing Ball Killer
Forty-nine-year-old mother of two Resham Kaur Dhillon lived in a house on Fisher Street, Willenhall, West Midlands, England. On March 5th, 1979, she was found dead in her bedroom, bound and gagged with pieces of her own clothing, and a ligature tied around her neck. The motive for the murder was unclear; there was reportedly … More Resham Kaur Dhillon
Thirty-three-year-old Robert Parrington Jackson was a married father of three and managed the Odeon cinema on Union Street, Bristol, England. The establishment had a single theater auditorium and a restaurant on the premises. At six-twenty-five p.m. on May 29th, 1946, the theater held two thousand people who had come to see a screening of the … More Robert Parrington Jackson
Forty-six-year-old electrical engineer and father of three Eamonn Bloodworth had been spending the night of Saturday, October 18th out on the town of Leicester, England with a group of his friends. The last place he was known to have visited before calling it a night was a club called Stilettos, which he left at around … More Eamonn Bloodworth
Fifty-one-year-old Richard Humphreys was a taxi driver who lived on Westview Avenue in Whyteleafe, Surrey, England, and had a fifteen-year-old daughter. On February 3rd, 1990, friends and relatives became concerned when he didn’t return home as normal, and they reported his disappearance to police. Nine days later, on February 12th, his Ford Sierra was found … More Richard Humphreys
Florence Lewis was a seventy-seven-year-old widow who lived alone in a bungalow on Cambridge Road in Wigmore, Kent, England. Neighbors described her as pleasant and friendly, a woman who largely kept to herself. But on Saturday, April 17th, 1965, the day before Easter, someone with ill intent apparently came knocking at Florence’s door. At around … More Florence Lewis
It was shortly before midnight on Saturday, April 8th, 1961 when several passersby witnessed twenty-two-year-old Irish laborer Patrick Mulligan staggering along the road near Worcester Cathedral in Sidbury, Worcester, England. At first, they thought the man was just drunk, but then he collapsed onto the sidewalk, and they noticed a large quantity of blood streaming … More Patrick Mulligan
Thirty-five-year-old Glenn Ford lived in a flat in Hillfields, Coventry, England with his girlfriend and their two children. On November 22nd, 1993, Glenn left the residence for some unreported purpose and was never seen alive again. The following day, he was found gunned down near an abandoned steel storage yard in Saltley, Birmingham. Police suspected … More Glenn Ford
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.
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