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Velma Murray (Unsolved Murder)
At age 13, Velma Murray began to struggle at school, and her mother, Clarissa, decided to send the teen to lodge with a family friend in Coventry. Velma settled in and over the next two years got on…
Kirsa Jensen (Missing Person)
14-year-old Kirsa Jensen was passionate about animals, especially horses. Living in Napier on New Zealand's North Island, there were many beautiful places to go riding. On September 1st 1983, Kirsa…
Michael and Pamela Mayfield (Missing Persons)
On Thursday January 10th 1985, kindergarteners Michael and Pamela Mayfield vanished without a trace on their way home from school. At 2.45 pm, the bell rang, and the siblings left Betsy Ross…
John "Jack" Armstrong (Unsolved Murder)
It was Friday, 5th October 1979. A little after 1:00 pm, 58-year-old taxi driver Jack Armstrong was dispatched to pick up "Mr Williams" from outside the Fairwater Hotel pub in the west of Cardiff. 45…
Norah Bartlett (Unsolved Murder)
Late at night on Thursday, 18th November 1943, an unconscious woman was found lying on her back in a lane in the Brynmill area of Swansea. Rather than seeking medical help, a police officer took her…
Warren and Elizabeth Wheeler (Unsolved Double Murder)
Retired couple Warren and Elizabeth Wheeler lived a simple, quiet life in the picturesque village of Boars Hill, Berkshire. In the middle of the day on October 8th 1973, a person or persons unknown…
Donna Healey (Suspicious Death)
In March 1988, on the eve of her 18th birthday, Donna Healey left her family home in Bradford for the last time. She was never seen alive by her loved ones again. More than 15 years later, a DNA…
Trevor Metcalfe (Unsolved Murder)
Early in the morning of September 16th 1989, the battered body of 25-year-old Trevor Metcalfe was found on playing fields in Dormanstown, near Middlesbrough. This was a location Trevor had no known…
George Barksdale and Solomon Rose (Missing Persons)
George Barksdale was just four years old when he disappeared from Baltimore, Maryland in April 1969. The little boy was last seen sitting on the steps of a church opposite his home. One lead suggests…
Mary Joe Frug (Unsolved Murder)
Through the 1970s and 1980s, Mary Joe Frug was a well-respected and prominent law academic. As a part of the Critical Legal Studies movement, she looked to analyse the legal system from a feminist…
Hannah Williams (Unsolved Murder)
Hannah Williams, a 78-year-old widow, lived with her daughter, Elizabeth, in an isolated cottage six miles from Cardiff. On the morning of Saturday November 10th 1900, Elizabeth walked to market to…
Abdur Rashid (Unsolved Murder)
Abdur Rashid was a 46 year old Muslim spiritual teacher who came to the UK from Bangladesh in the late 1970s. Abdur lived and worked in London's East End and was known in the local community as a…
Christina "Sister Jacinta" Bracken (Missing Person)
Christina or Christine Bracken was a 39 year old nun, originally from Ireland, who in the later part of 1978 moved to Swansea, Wales, to begin a new chapter in her life. After 6 months in Wales…
Kevin Mison (Unsolved Murder)
Kevin Mison was a football mad teenager from an estate in West London. In early August 1980 the body of the 18 year old was found in an empty house close to where he lived. He had been murdered in a…
Annette Morgan (Unsolved Murder)
Annette Morgan was about to start a new chapter in her young life. The 18 year old had recently left her science course at the University of Sydney for a new role as a trainee radiologist. On Friday…
Michelle "Jolene" Lakey (Missing Person)
In the late afternoon of August 26th 1986, Michelle "Jolene" Lakey went to visit her sick mother at Mercy Hospital, Scranton. After giving her mother a teddy bear as a get well present the 11 year…
Harriet Stacey (Unsolved Murder)
The body of a woman known by neighbours as "Kate England" was discovered on the night of Valentine's Day 1904. "Kate" was found lying on an upstairs bed in her small cottage situated on Saltmead…
Donna Doll (Unexplained Death)
21 year old Donna Doll was a Russian language student at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. At 9.59pm on October 2nd 1970 she left the campus library where she worked a part-time job and was…
Mary "Helen" Hoyles (Unsolved Murder)
Late on the evening of February 12th 1945, 55 year old Mary "Helen" Hoyles finished her shift at the American Red Cross Club on High Street in the centre of Southampton, and began the short walk…
Camille Gordon (Unsolved Murder)
Camille Gordon travelled from Jamaica to the UK in the early 2000s to fulfill her dream of becoming a nursery school teacher. In 2003 she moved to London but with course fees and the ever increasing…
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