John Bowen (16?? – 1704) was a pirate of Créole origin active during the Golden Age of Piracy.[3] He sailed with other famous contemporaries, including Nathaniel North (who would succeed him as captain of Bowen’s final ship, […]
Murder of Zebb Quinn
Zebb Wayne Quinn (May 12, 1981[1] – c. January 2, 2000) was an American teenager who went missing in Asheville, North Carolina. Quinn was 18 years old and working at a local Walmart when he disappeared after […]
Murder of Marie Wilks
Marie Patricia Wilks (30 March 1966 – 18 June 1988) was a 22-year-old seven-months-pregnant woman who was abducted from the hard shoulder of the M50 motorway and murdered on 18 June 1988. Her body was found […]
Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo
Jacqueline Susan Ansell-Lamb (21 September 1951 – 8 March 1970)[1][2][3] and Barbara Janet Mayo[4] (20 March 1946 – 12 October 1970)[2][5] were two young women who were murdered in separate incidents in 1970. Both women were last seen hitch-hiking along motorways in England, and […]
Murder of Caroline Mary Luard
Caroline Mary Luard (née Hartley; 1850 – 24 August 1908) was the victim of an unsolved murder, known as the Seal Chart Murder, after she was mysteriously shot and killed at an isolated […]
Clifton Star Chamber Case
The Clifton Star Chamber Case or Clifton vs. Robinson was a court case of early modern England, in 1601, before the Star Chamber, concerning the abduction of children by choir schools.[1] The case In 1601, Henry Clifton, […]
Murder of Sian O’Callaghan
Sian Emma O’Callaghan (3 June 1988 – c. 19 March 2011) was a 22-year-old British woman who disappeared from Swindon, Wiltshire, England, having last been seen at a nightclub in the town in the early […]
Murder of Bethany Decker
On January 29, 2011, Bethany Anne Decker (née Littlejohn;[1] born May 13, 1989) left her grandparents’ home and returned to her apartment in Ashburn, Virginia. Her co-worker/roommate, Ronald Roldan, claimed he saw her there later […]
Kingston Hill Murder
The Kingston Hill Murder was the case of Police Constable 356 V Fred Atkins, who was murdered on Kingston Hill, Kingston, Surrey, in 1881. The murder remains unsolved. The magazine Punch published a cartoon entitled “An […]
Murder of Muriel Drinkwater
The murder of Muriel Drinkwater (Welsh: Llofruddiaeth Muriel Drinkwater),[2] also known as the Little Red Riding Hood murder, is an unsolved 1946 child murder case from Wales. Drinkwater, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, was raped and shot in the […]