Dora Pratt was seventy-six years old and ran a corner shop on Bulstrode Road, Ipswich, Suffolk, England. She lived alone, in a house adjoining the shop. The night of Friday, January 8th, 1982 had been unusually snowy, so much so that the scheduled Saturday soccer match between Ipswich Town and Manchester United had been postponed, … More Dora Pratt
Forty-four-year-old Peter Rasini lived in Palmers Green, North London, and had run a stall buying and selling antiques at Alfie’s Antique Market in Paddington for more than twenty years. On Sunday, March 24th, 1991, a friend and colleague of Peter’s went to his house at around six-thirty p.m. to negotiate an antique sale. At this … More Peter Rasini
August 21st, 2004 was the day before the twenty-eighth birthday of Tom Brown, a recent graduate from Southampton University who was working for the BBC as a librarian and archivist. He was described by family and colleagues as pleasant, caring, and popular, a man who could always be relied upon to do the right thing. … More Tom Brown
It was Valentine’s Day of 2007, and fifteen-year-old Billy Cox was last seen walking down a street near his home in Clapham, south London, England, accompanied by two unidentified males. Later that afternoon, Billy’s thirteen-year-old sister Elizabeth came home from school and found her brother bleeding profusely from gunshot wounds. She called emergency services and … More Billy Cox
Forty-year-old postal worker Mick Love, described as a “gentle giant” by his family, lived in Swindon, England with his wife Karen and their two children, aged four and eight. On the night of September 26th, 2004, Mick had gone out with friends to Old Town in Swindon. At three-twelve a.m. on the morning of September … More Mick Love
Twenty-seven-year-old Margaret Muller was originally from Falls Church, Virginia, but in 2003 was living in Hackney, East London, England. She was an artist who had moved to the UK to study at the Slade School of Art, part of University College London. On the morning of February 3rd, 2003, Margaret was jogging through Victoria Park … More Margaret Muller
Sixty-one-year-old Michael “Joe” Shipton worked as a general gardener and odd-job man, and lived alone in a house in The Plashets, Sheering, Essex, England. On Sunday, March 25th, 2006, a friend of his became concerned when he couldn’t get hold of Joe, and went to the house to check on him. There, he found the … More Michael “Joe” Shipton
Seventeen-year-old Lindsey Scholes was staying with friends at a house on Milgate Street, Royston, South Yorkshire, England on the night of September 8th, 2001. The house was only a five-minute walk from her own residence, where she lived with her mother and younger brother Shaun. At some point during the night, an unknown perpetrator or … More Lindsey Scholes
Twenty-four-year-old father of one Nathan Williams was studying business at Greenwich University in London. According to friends and family, he was a friendly, popular student, a good guy who doted on his two-year-old son and was seemingly not involved in anything untoward. However, at about one-thirty a.m. on July 28th, 2009, Nathan had driven his … More Nathan Williams
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
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