Fourteen-year-old Ruth Bradbury lived in Crowthorne, Berkshire, England. On March 29th, 1967, she had gone shopping for her grandmother and was making her way back through Simons Wood, off Wellingtonia Avenue. Suddenly, a shot rang out, and the girl crumpled dead to the ground. Police launched an investigation, and during their search of the woods, … More Ruth Bradbury
Twenty-year-old Jane Bigwood was an art student, living as a squatter with several other people in a block of flats in south London. On October 21st, 1976, she was found stabbed to death in her apartment. The knife she was stabbed with belonged to another squatter named Mervyn Russell, who was thirty-two at the time. … More Jane Bigwood
Thirty-three-year-old Karen Reed lived on Willow Way in Woking, Surrey, England. On the evening of April 30th, 1994, Karen’s friend Anne Smith had come over to visit. At approximately nine-fifteen p.m., there was a knock at the front door. Karen got up and opened the door partway, asking who was there. The man on the … More Karen Reed
Seventy-one-year-old Ralph McIntosh was a native of Edinburgh, Scotland; he was a veteran of World War II, and an avid golfer who could have gone pro had the war not intervened. As it was, he’d been successful in his post-war career as a secretary of the British Investment Trust. After he retired, he and his … More Ralph McIntosh
Ninety-four-year-old Dorothy Wood had lived in her home on Whitby Avenue in Fartown, Huddersfield, West Yorkshire for sixty years. Her home had been robbed twice, once in 1993 and once in 1996, and though she’d had a burglar alarm installed, she usually turned it off because she kept accidentally triggering it. At around seven-thirty p.m. … More Dorothy Wood
Seventy-three-year-old Constance Aris, better known as Connie, or sometimes “Little Granny” because of her diminutive size, lived in a house on Roman Road in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, England. She had lived alone since 1978, following the death of her husband Hubert. Connie was a well-loved, very religious woman, and had a close relationship with her son … More Connie Aris
Eighty-year-old Emily Pye owned a grocery store on Gibbet Street, Halifax, West Yorkshire, England, and she’d been running it for thirty years. She was a long-established fixture in the community and well-loved by the locals. Saturday, June 8th, 1957 was a public holiday, and the store had been open as normal. Emily had plans later … More Emily Pye
Shortly before ten-forty-five on the morning of Saturday, February 2nd, 2008, a man entered the Lane Bryant clothing outlet store in the Brookside Marketplace in Tinley Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago. Wielding a Glock, he herded four customers, the store manager, and a part-time employee, all women, into the back of the store. There, … More The Lane Bryant Shooting
Forty-year-old Keith Rogers, described as a “gentle man” with “many friends” by his family, lived in a second-floor flat on Station Road in Sawbridgeworth, Hertfordshire, England. In the early morning hours of Sunday, April 29th, 2001, while Keith was asleep, someone poured gasoline through the letterbox of his apartment and set it alight. Awakened by … More Keith Rogers
On New Year’s Eve of 1987, nineteen-year-old Trevor Monerville was on his way to visit his aunts when he mysteriously went missing. The following day, his family found out through the grapevine that he may have been taken to the police station in Stoke Newington, London, England, and they went there to find him. At … More Trevor Monerville
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