Crime Immemorial

On November 12th, 1989, which was Remembrance Sunday in the UK, firefighters responded to a blaze at a holiday cottage in Rodborough, Stroud, Gloucestershire, in southwest England. Inside, they discovered the remains of forty-three-year-old Carmel Gamble. But it soon became clear that the dead woman had not been killed by the fire, but by savage … More Carmel Gamble

Thirty-two-year-old mother of two Jeanette Kempton, better known as simply Jean, was last seen alive leaving the Loughborough Hotel in Brixton, south London, England, on February 2nd, 1989. For two long weeks after this sighting, her whereabouts were unknown. Then, on February 18th, two hunters came across her decomposed remains lying in a ditch on … More Jeanette Kempton

It was February 5th, 1980, and thirteen-year-old Tracy Main had stayed home sick from school. Both her parents went off to work as usual. The family lived in a flat in a tower block in the Gorbals, an area of Glasgow, Scotland. When Tracy’s mother came home from work, she made a horrifying discovery: her … More Tracy Main

On the evening of October 21st, 1971, nineteen-year-old newlywed Susan Turner attended a birthday party in Hartlepool, England, along with her husband of only five months, George. Susan was four-and-a-half months pregnant. At some point after the party, while the couple was walking home, they got into an argument, and George stalked off and left … More Susan Turner

Twenty-five-year-old mother of four Helen Kane was out and about with her husband Joe and some of their friends in Leith, Scotland on the evening of May 24th, 1970. Somewhere around eleven-thirty p.m., though, Helen parted from the group and went off on her own. Shortly afterward, a woman fitting her description was seen getting … More Helen Kane

Eleven-year-old Allan Graham lived with his older brother and his sister-in-law in a house on Gerald Street, Benwell, Newcastle, England. On Saturday, January 24th, 1970, the boy was sent to a shop called Appleton’s down the street to purchase some cigarettes. In the course of this errand, Allan completely vanished. The following day, his strangled … More Allan Graham

Between 1975 and 1977, the dismembered bodies of six men were discovered stuffed into garbage bags and floating in the Hudson River in New York City. From an examination of the clothing on the remains, it was established that all six victims had purchased leather items from shops in Greenwich Village that were known to … More The Bag Murders

Eighteen-year-old Annette Louise Morgan was a popular and well-liked nursing student at Royal Newcastle Hospital in New South Wales, Australia. Shortly after seven a.m. on the morning of October 29th, 1977, Annette was walking down Glebe Point Road in Sydney, on her way to visit a friend at St. Paul’s College at Sydney University. She … More Annette Louise Morgan

On March 4th, 1993, twenty-eight-year-old Jillian Fuller was seen at the pub of the Fraser Arms Hotel in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada. At around one-thirty a.m., she left with a man. It was the last time Jillian was seen alive. Several hours later, firefighters responded to a blaze at Jillian’s apartment building on Granville Street. … More Jillian Fuller