List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (before 1970)

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Before 1 September 1939[]

Year Name of victim(s) Location body found Notes
1536 Robert Pakington London Likely the first murder with a handgun in London.[1]
1593 Christopher Marlowe Deptford English Elizabethan playwright, poet and translator whose works have influenced the life of William Shakespeare. He was murdered under unclear circumstances, and many theories exist regarding his killing.[2]
1752 Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure Appin, Argyll Known as the Appin Murder, the murder of Colin Roy Campbell of Glenure took place at Appin, in the west of Scotland, in the aftermath of the Jacobite rising of 1745, and inspired events in Robert Louis Stevenson's novel Kidnapped.[3]
1759 George Burrington St James's Park, Westminster The body of George Burrington, late Governor of North Carolina, was retrieved from the canal in St James's Park on 22 February 1759. He had been beaten and robbed.[4][5]
1817 Mary Ashford Sutton Coldfield, Warwickshire Mary Ashford's body was retrieved from a marl pit on the morning of 27 May 1817. Abraham Thornton, a local bricklayer who had been in her company, was charged with murder and rape but acquitted at a trial at Warwick on 8 August of that year, and an attempt to retry him on an appeal of murder brought by Mary's brother failed in early 1818.
1837 Eliza Davis Marylebone, London 21-year-old Eliza Davis was murdered at the King's Arms public house, Frederick Street, near Regent's Park, on 9 May 1837. Her throat had been cut. It has been suggested that Eliza was murdered by the same person who killed Eliza Grimwood in 1838.[6][7]
1838 Eliza Grimwood Waterloo, London Eliza Grimwood, 28, was found brutally murdered in her bedroom at 12 Wellington Terrace, Waterloo Road, on 27 May 1838. Eliza had been a sex worker and had accompanied her murderer - a 'well-dressed foreigner' - to the theatre the previous evening, she returned with him to her home at around midnight. It has been suggested that Eliza was murdered by the same person who killed Eliza Davis the previous year.[7][8]
1857 Emile L'Angelier Glasgow Emile's lover, Madeleine Smith, was accused of poisoning him with arsenic. The verdict was "not proven".[9]
1861 Martha Halliday Kingswood, Surrey Martha Halliday, 55, was murdered when burglars broke into Kingswood Rectory on the night of 10 June 1861. Martha was the wife of the parish clerk and had been minding the rectory while the vicar and his family were away. She was bound and gagged during the robbery and died from suffocation. Three German men were considered suspects and Johann Carl Franz stood trial for Martha's murder but was found not guilty.[10]
1863 Emma Jackson St Giles, London 28-year-old Emma Jackson was found dead in a bedroom in a brothel at 4 George Street, St Giles, on 9 April 1863; her throat had been cut and she had suffered stab wounds. Emma had been a sex worker and had brought a man with her to the house at around 7 am that morning; it was believed that this man was the culprit. Despite several witnesses seeing them together, he was never found.[10]
1866 Janet Rogers Mount Stewart Farm, near Perth, Scotland On 30 March 1866, Janet Henderson Rogers, age 55, was clubbed to death with an axe while visiting her brother Charles Henderson on his farm, and ploughman James Crichton was charged with her murder. At trial, the jury returned a verdict of not proven.[11]
1866 Sarah Millson City of London Sarah Millson, 51, was murdered in the warehouse at 2 Cannon Street, where she worked as a housekeeper, on 11 April 1866. She was heard answering the door to an unknown person during the evening and her body was found by another occupant of the building later that same evening. Sarah had been bludgeoned. A man called William Smith stood trial for her murder but was found not guilty. The City of London Police were widely considered to have bungled the investigation.[10]
1871 Jane Clouson Attacked in Eltham, London, died at Guy's Hospital 17-year-old Jane Clouson was found with serious head injuries on Kidbrooke Lane, Eltham, in the early hours of 26 April 1871. She died on 30 April at Guy's Hospital and had been two months' pregnant at the time of her death. Her boyfriend, Edmund Pook, stood trial for her murder and was found not guilty.[10]
July 1872 Sarah and Christiana Squires Hoxton, London Known as the Hoxton Horror. Sarah Squires, 77, and her daughter Christiana Squires, 36, were murdered at the print shop they owned at 46 Hyde Road, Hoxton, at around midday on 10 July 1872. Both women were brutally attacked with a hammer and their home was ransacked. There had been an attempted burglary at their shop a few days previously, no one was ever charged with their murders.[10]
December 1872 Harriet Buswell Bloomsbury, London Harriet Buswell, 31, was a sex worker who was found with her throat cut in her room at 12 Great Coram Street on 25 December 1872. She was murdered by a customer who police believed was a visiting German, ship's chaplain Dr Gottfried Hessell. Dr Hessell was arrested but the case dismissed because he had an alibi for the time of Harriet Buswell's death.[10]
1876 Charles Bravo Balham, London Known as the Charles Bravo Murder or the Murder at the Priory. Charles Bravo, a lawyer, was poisoned with antimony. He took three days to die but gave no indication of who the poisoner was. No-one was ever charged with the crime.[12][13][14][15][16][17]
1878 Rachel Samuel Bloomsbury, London 74-year-old Rachel Samuel was found dead in her kitchen at 4 Burton Crescent (now Cartwright Gardens) on 11 December 1872. She had been beaten and some coins, her wedding ring and boots were stolen. Former servant Mary Donovan was arrested but the case against her was dismissed for lack of evidence.[10]
1881 P.C. Fred Atkins Kingston Hill, Kingston, Surrey Police Constable 356 V Fred Atkins was shot while on patrol at The Knoll, Kingston Hill, Kingston, in 1881.
1881 Lucy Sands Workington, Cumbria Lucy Sands, 16, was raped and brutally attacked on the Northside road of Workington and left to die encased under the weight of carefully placed cobblestones covering her entire body. On the evening of 1 December 1881 she went missing without trace; on the morning of 1 March 1882 a road mettler going about his job at 9 am uncovered the remains of her vermin-eaten body. This sparked a police hunt for her killer. The case remains officially unsolved, although it was solved by a researcher in 2015.[18]
1884 Annie Yates Bloomsbury, London Annie Yates, believed to be 23, was a sex worker who was murdered by a customer at 12 Burton Crescent (now Cartwright Gardens) in the early hours of 9 March 1884. She had been strangled and beaten and her purse and a ring were taken. Annie's past was mysterious and her true name and age were never fully established.[10]
1887–1889 Elizabeth Jackson and three unidentified victims River Thames and other locations in London Four unsolved murders known as the Thames Torso Murders.
April 1888 Emma Smith Whitechapel, London 45-year-old Emma Smith returned to her lodging house in the early hours of 3 April 1888 and told its deputy keeper that three men had set upon and robbed her in Osborn Street. Supported by two fellow lodgers, she walked the comparatively short distance to the London Hospital, but it would transpire that she had been wounded mortally and she died there on 4 April. She was the first victim of what would become known as the Whitechapel Murders.
August 1888 Martha Tabram Whitechapel, London The 39-year-old prostitute was stabbed 39 times and her body was discovered on the first-floor landing of a building in George Yard (now Gunthorpe Street) on 7 August. Partly because she was with a soldier when last seen alive and partly because there were marked differences between her injuries and those on his five canonical victims, there is much disagreement over whether it was Jack the Ripper who murdered her.
August–November 1888 Mary Ann Nichols, Annie Chapman, Elizabeth Stride, Catherine Eddowes, Mary Jane Kelly Whitechapel (Mary Ann Nichols and Elizabeth Stride), Spitalfields (Annie Chapman and Mary Jane Kelly) and the City of London (Catherine Eddowes) "Jack the Ripper" victims.
December 1888 Rose Mylett Poplar, London A policeman on patrol on 20 December found the 26-year-old prostitute's still-warm body near where she was last seen alive with two sailors. Two surgeons claimed that someone strangled her with a cord and the jury at the inquest on her agreed with them, but two other doctors did not believe she was murdered. One of the doctors with this belief – the last of the five people to examine Mylett's body – stated following his examination of it that choking on the stiff collar of her jacket after falling over was the likeliest cause of her death.[19]
December 1888 John Gill Bradford, West Yorkshire Eight-year-old John Gill's body was found in Manningham Lane in Bradford on 28 December 1888. His throat had been cut, his abdomen cut open and stabbed, his arms and legs hacked off and his ears removed. Milkman William Barrett was arrested for the murder but a magistrate dismissed the charges. Newspapers suggested a connection to the Jack the Ripper murders, but doctors found the boy had been drugged.[20]
February 1889 Louisa Smith Lewisham, London Sex worker Louisa Smith was found in Algernon Road, Lewisham, early on 10 February 1889. She had a fractured skull caused by a blow with a blunt instrument – likely to have been a hammer. Louisa died from her injuries in a workhouse infirmary in Lewisham on the night of 14 February.[21]
July 1889 Alice McKenzie Whitechapel, London Jack the Ripper was suspected to have struck again when Alice McKenzie was found dead with stab wounds in Castle Alley, for she had been working the streets of Whitechapel and was murdered there only several months after Mary Jane Kelly's murder in the neighbouring district of Spitalfields. The stab wounds on McKenzie's body not being so savage as the ones on the bodies of most of his canonical victims, however, made the theory that she had been killed by him appear less likely upon closer analysis.
January 1890 Amelia Jeffs West Ham, London 15-year-old Amelia Jeffs, known as Millie, went missing on her way to a fried fish shop on Church Street, West Ham, on the evening of 31 January 1890. Her body was found on 14 February in a bedroom cupboard at number 126, Portway – an empty property in a row of recently built terraced houses. Amelia had been strangled with her scarf.[10]
February 1891 Frances Coles Whitechapel, London 31-year-old Frances Coles' throat had been slit from ear to ear when a policeman found her on 13 February. Because he had also just heard the footsteps of someone leaving the area and blood was still flowing from Coles' throat, it may be that the culprit had been disturbed by the sound of the policeman approaching and fled the scene accordingly. 53-year-old seaman James Sadler (with whom she had spent time drinking in public houses on 12 February) was charged with the prostitute's murder, but the voicing of doubts about his guilt during her inquest led to the decision to acquit him. The final victim of the Whitechapel Murders, Coles is not widely believed to have died at Jack the Ripper's hands.[22]
August 1893 Windsor Dudley Cecil Hambrough Ardlamont Estate, Argyll Known as the Ardlamont Murder, Ardlamont Mystery or Monson Case. On 10 August 1893, twenty-year-old Cecil Hambrough went on a shoot with his tutor, Alfred John Monson, and Monson's friend Edward Scott. When Monson and Scott returned to Ardlamont House they claimed that Hambrough had accidentally shot himself in the head while climbing over a fence. This explanation was accepted until it was discovered that two life insurance policies had been taken out on Hambrough shortly before his death in the name of Monson's wife. Alfred Monson stood trial for murder but the verdict was 'not proven'. Monson then successfully sued Madame Tussaud's in 1894 for erecting a waxwork of him carrying a shotgun in its chamber of horrors.[23]
January 1898 Thomas Webb College Farm, Finchley, London Known as the Finchley Murder. Head cowman Thomas Webb was found fatally shot outside his cottage at College Farm. Mysteriously, before his death Thomas had a strange presentiment that one night he would be shot when looking round the farm.[24]
December 1898 Mary Jane Voller Barking, London Five-year-old Mary Jane Voller, known as Little Jennie, vanished during a shopping errand to a chandler's shop which was fifty yards from her home at 77 Harpour Road, Barking, on 31 December 1898. Her father found her body in a flooded ditch later that night, she had been stabbed multiple times.[10]
February 1899 Bertha Russ East Ham, London Bertha Russ, 6, was last seen talking to a youth close to St Barnabas' Church, Browning Road, East Ham, after she had attended Sunday School on the afternoon of 19 February 1899. Her body was found about a mile away in an upstairs cupboard of a newly constructed house on Lawrence Avenue, Little Ilford, on 5 March. The cause of death was suffocation.[10]
May 1902 Rose Harsent Peasenhall, Suffolk Known as the Peasenhall Murder. William Gardiner, a married man who was thought to be having an affair with the pregnant victim, was twice tried inconclusively and then set free.[25][26]
September 1905 Mary Money Merstham, Surrey Body found in one of the Merstham railway tunnels. The post-mortem showed a scarf had been thrust into her mouth and marks were discovered on the tunnel wall showing that Miss Money had been thrown to her death from a moving train.[27]
October 1905 Elizabeth Peers Liverpool Ten-year-old Elizabeth Peers went missing while running an errand to a butcher's shop on Lodge Lane, Toxteth, on 28 October 1905. Her body was found the following morning on Cullen Street, three minutes from her home on Wendell Street, she had been strangled. It has been suggested that Elizabeth was murdered by the same person who killed Margaret Kirby in 1908.[28]
January 1906 Lillie Yolande Marie Rochaid Kilsby, Northamptonshire The body of Lillie Rochaid, 18, was found in Crick Tunnel, on the Northampton loop railway line, on 10 January 1906. Jewellery was missing from her body and it was believed that she had either been pushed from the moving train or leapt out of the carriage to escape her attacker.[29]
June 1906 Mary Anne Hogg Camberley, Surrey On the afternoon of 11 June 1906, two half-sisters were attacked in their home Heathfield on London Road, Camberley. The younger sister, Caroline, 62, was resting upstairs when she heard screams from Mary, 68, downstairs. When she went downstairs, she was attacked by a man with a weapon. Both sisters suffered head injuries and had their throats cut. Mary died from her injuries but Caroline managed to stagger out of the house to alert a neighbour. She survived the attack despite the severity of her injuries. The Hogg sisters were known to be wealthy but there was no sign of robbery and the police remained baffled about the motive for the attack.[30][31]
September 1907 Emily Dimmock Camden Town, London Known as the Camden Town Murder. Sex worker Emily Dimmock was found with her throat cut. Robert Wood was accused and acquitted after a brilliant defence by Edward Marshall Hall.[32]
January 1908 Margaret Kirby Liverpool Seven-year-old Margaret Kirby was led away by a man as she played with her brother and a friend on Farnworth Street, Kensington, on 6 January 1908. Margaret's body was found in a sack seven months later on 15 August on Great Newton Street. An anonymous letter, purporting to be from Margaret's killer, was sent to police confessing to the crime. The man claimed he had been a lodger in Great Newton Street and it has been suggested that he also murdered Elizabeth Peers in 1905.[28]
August 1908 Caroline Luard Ightham, Kent Known as the Seal Chart Murder. Mrs Luard was shot in a summerhouse in the middle of a wood near Sevenoaks, Kent. Her husband was accused by some, and he later committed suicide in despair.[33] Later it was suggested that murderer John Dickman, hanged for a shooting on a train in 1910, was the guilty party.[34]
December 1908 Marion Gilchrist Glasgow Marion Gilchrist was an affluent 82-year-old woman who lived in the West End of Glasgow. She was bludgeoned to death and the only thing taken was a diamond brooch. Oscar Slater was suspected as he had gone to America and tried to pawn a brooch. He was wrongfully convicted in 1909 and this conviction was quashed in 1928. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle was prominent in securing his release.[35]
November 1909 George Harry Storrs Gorse Hall, Stalybridge, Cheshire Storrs was the owner of Gorse Hall and was a prominent businessman in the town. There were suggestions that he was the lover of his friends' au pair and that she had become pregnant due to the liaison. She later committed suicide. His business interests also made many enemies for Storrs and after one attack he had a bell installed to warn police of intruders. On the night of 1 November 1909, an intruder forced his way into the house and, in a scuffle with Storrs, stabbed him 15 times. Two men were later tried independently of each other for the killing, but neither of them was convicted.[36]
July 1911 Amy Reeves Longcross, Chertsey Common, Surrey Ten-year-old Amy Reeves was last seen alive in the yard of her home in Longcross at 12.30 pm on 18 July 1911. Her body was found late that night by a pond or 'dip hole' which was about two hundred yards from her home. Amy had suffered head injuries and died from drowning. She had been seen in the company of a neighbour, 16-year-old gardener Albert Hampton, that morning. Albert was charged with Amy's murder but discharged when the jury at the inquest gave a verdict of 'wilful murder without evidence to show by whom committed'.[37][38][39]
October 1911 George Wilson Lintz Green railway station, County Durham The 59-year-old stationmaster was shot when returning home after closing his office at the station. Although he did not die instantly, when questioned, Wilson was unable to say who had shot him. Railway porter Samuel Atkinson was charged but no evidence was offered against him in court.[40]
18 October 1913 Mary Speir Gunn Northbank Cottage, Portencross, North Ayrshire 51-year-old Mary Speir Gunn died when six shots were fired through a living-room window at night. The two other occupants of the room were injured, but not killed. No-one was ever charged with or prosecuted for the crime.
May 1914 David Ombler Hull, East Yorkshire David Ombler was found dead in the back room of his greengrocer's shop on West Parade, off Spring Bank in Hull, on 30 May 1914. He had been beaten about the head with a poker. Witnesses reported seeing a stranger loitering near the shop around the time of the murder, and it was thought that the motive was robbery.[41]
April 1915 Margaret Nally City of London Seven-year-old Margaret 'Maggie' Nally went out to buy sweets with her five-year-old cousin close to Edgeware Road on the evening of 4 April 1915. Her cousin returned home alone reporting that Maggie had gone off with an 'old man'. Maggie's body was found some hours later in the ladies waiting room at Aldersgate Station (now named Barbican tube station). It was deduced that she had died at around 10pm that evening and had been suffocated.[42]
July 1917 Vera Glasspool Owslebury, near Winchester, Hampshire On 11 July 1917, the body of 15-year-old Vera May Glasspool was found in woodland close to Longwood House, where she worked as a scullery maid. She had been strangled and stabbed. Suspicion centred on the army camp at Hazeley Down and the police offered a £50 reward for information which might lead to the arrest of the guilty person or persons.[43][44]
June 1919 Mabel Greenwood Kidwelly, Carmarthenshire Harold Greenwood (1874–1929) was accused of poisoning his wife, Mabel, with arsenic. He was acquitted at Carmarthen Assizes in 1920 after a defence by Edward Marshall Hall.[32][45]
July 1919 Bella Wright Little Stretton, near Leicester Known as the Green Bicycle Case as the victim was last seen with a man owning one. A green bicycle was found in a canal and its owner, Ronald Light (1885–1975), was traced. He stood trial, but was found not guilty of Wright's murder, primarily due to his defence counsel, Sir Edward Marshall Hall KC, who had Light in the witness box admitting to every allegation made against him, except her murder.[32]
January 1920 Florence Nightingale Shore Sussex Florence Nightingale Shore, the goddaughter of Florence Nightingale, was found on a train at Bexhill, Sussex with serious head injuries and died in hospital in Hastings four days later.[46]
10 February 1929 Kate Jackson Limeslade, Wales 43-year-old Jackson, an Englishwoman who had moved to the area with her husband to avoid recognition following his trial for embezzlement, was attacked shortly after departing from a meeting with a friend. She passed away from her injuries in hospital. Though her husband was tried for her murder, he was not convicted of it and the case remains unsolved.[47]
25 September 1930 Margery Wren Ramsgate, Kent A former maid and sweetshop owner who was around 80 years of age, Wren was attacked and gravely injured by an unknown assailant before collapsing and succumbing to her injuries. While a potential suspect in her killing was named, he was never charged, and the case remains unsolved to this day.[48]
7 January 1931 Evelyn Foster Otterburn, Northumberland Foster ran a successful car-hire business and on returning from a journey on 6 January 1931, picked up a 26-year-old man wearing a tweed suit, overcoat and bowler hat. He assaulted Foster, threw her into the back of the cab and then covered her with a rug, which he doused with petrol and set alight. Although horrifically burned, Foster was able to crawl away from the burning vehicle and when found she was able to describe her attacker; however, she succumbed to her injuries the following day.[49]
20 January 1931 Julia Wallace Liverpool Known as the Wallace Case. Julia's husband, William Herbert Wallace, was convicted of killing her, but his conviction was quashed when he appealed. Recent books have named another suspect.
21 June 1931 Hubert Chevis Aldershot, Hampshire Chevis, 28, was poisoned after eating partridge laced with strychnine.[50]
14 December 1931 Vera Page Notting Hill, London Ten-year-old Vera Page's body was found in undergrowth on Addison Road in Notting Hill, London. It was believed she had been murdered elsewhere and then transported to this location.[51][52][53]
July 1932 Queenie Winifred Harman (née Hicks) St. Leonards-on-Sea, Sussex Aged 17, Queenie was bludgeoned to death at her home.[54][55][56][better source needed] Her husband, Arthurd Edward Harman, was accused but never convicted.[54][55][57] He died two years later, aged 25, after wandering onto the railway lines near Polegate.[54][55][56] The case for murder appears to have ended at the police court (magistrates' court) level as police had no solid evidence. Mr Harman worked for John Carter, a haulier, and had been to work on that fateful day in July 1932.[57] The police seemed to want the case closed rapidly and never followed any other possible leads.
October 1932 Albert and Annie Keen Shackleford, Surrey Known as the Cutt Mill Murders. Albert Keen, 61, and his wife, Annie Keen, 54, were both found dead on 8 October 1932. Annie was discovered on the floor of the scullery in the cottage which she and her husband had lived in, close to Cutt Mill crossroads. She had suffered injuries to her throat and head. When Albert failed to turn up for his work as a farmhand, his body was found in Cutt Mill pond. He had received head injuries and died from drowning, and police believed he had been murdered before his wife. A murder-suicide was ruled out and a motive of robbery was suspected instead because the couple had kept money in their home. A man stood trial for the Keens' murder but was acquitted after three days.[58]
October 1932 Sidney Marston Birmingham 21-year-old Sidney Marston was found dying of stab wounds in the front garden of 63 Willows Crescent, Cannon Hill, Birmingham, on the evening of 9 October 1932. Two teenage sisters stood trial for his murder; they claimed he had assaulted and attempted to rob them but denied killing him. During the trial it was decided that there was no evidence that the two girls had committed the crime and the judge ordered the jury to return a not guilty verdict.[59][60]
June 1934 Unknown female Brighton, Sussex Her torso was found in a trunk at Brighton Station. This is known as the Brighton Trunk Crime No. 1. See Brighton trunk murders. In 2020, the BBC One documentary Dark Land: Hunting the Killers suggested that George Shotton could have been the murderer. In 1961, George Shotton was posthumously named as the killer of his wife Mamie Stuart.[61]
August 1935 Minnie Lawson Ogle, Northumberland 58-year-old Minnie Lawson was a widow who ran a sweet shop in the village of Ogle, Northumberland. On 12 August 1935, her body was found by her bed. Minnie had been beaten with a hammer, her bed set alight and her home ransacked. A local man was arrested and charged over her death but the case against him collapsed.[62]
May 1938 William Murfitt Risby, Suffolk William Murfitt, 56, was poisoned with cyanide at his home, Quays Farm, on 17 May 1938. Suspicion fell on his housekeeper but there was insufficient evidence to charge anyone.[63]
October 1938 Phyllis Hirst Bradford, West Yorkshire Eight-year-old Phyllis Hirst was murdered on the evening of 28 October 1938 after she had been outside playing with a friend. Her body was found on a lane near All Saints' Church in Little Horton Green.[64]
April 1939 George Stapleton Greenfield, Bedfordshire Bludgeoned to death with a fence post. Stapleton, a farm worker aged 66, was attacked on Friday, 21 April 1939 while walking along a bridleway in Greenfield from Ruxox Farm to his lodgings, the White Hart Inn in Flitton, and his wages were stolen. The police report said the attack was maniacally brutal.[65][66][67]

1 September 1939–1969[]

Year Name of victim(s) Location body found Notes
September 1939 Joyce Cox Cardiff Four-year-old Joyce Cox vanished while walking home from school with her older brother on 28 September 1939, her body was later found on a railway embankment in Coryton, Cardiff. Subsequent research by a family member suggested that the police believed the prime suspect had died in the 1950s.[68]
November 1940 Minnie Stott Bolton, Lancashire 17-year-old Minnie 'Peggy' Stott went out for the evening on 16 November 1940 and her body was found by a police officer shortly before midnight in the yard of Parker's Garage, through an archway on Bradshawgate, Bolton. She had been strangled with her scarf and sexually assaulted. There were various sightings of her during the evening but no firm leads emerged. It was suggested years later that the investigating police officers had traced the crime to a man who committed suicide before he could be arrested, but this has not been substantiated.[69]
April 1943 Wych Elm Bella Wychbury Hill, Hagley, Worcestershire Skeletal remains of a woman were discovered inside a hollow tree in April 1943. Police established the victim had died approximately 18 months earlier but could not identify her. In 1944, the message "Who put Bella in the Wych Elm? - Hagley Wood" was found painted on a wall in Birmingham. Various theories about the identity of the victim and her killer have been proposed.
August 1943 Mabel Harper Cardiff 53-year-old Mabel Harper was attacked while walking home from visiting friends on the night of 12 August 1943. Her body was found on a grass verge on Western Avenue, Cardiff, the following day. Mabel had been gagged, stripped, and had facial injuries; her attache case and handbag were missing.[70]
November 1943 Norah Bartlett Swansea The body of Norah Bartlett, 33, was found on the evening of 18 November 1943 in a lane close to her home on Rhyddings Park Road, Brynmill, Swansea. She had been strangled, and it was reported that she had last been seen in the company of an American soldier.[71]
February 1945 Charles Walton Meon Hill, near Upper Quinton, Warwickshire On Valentine's Day 1945, the body of local farm labourer Charles Walton was found pinned to the ground with a pitchfork. He had been murdered with his own trouncing hook.[citation needed] The body had a large cross engraved into the chest and neck, which caused rumours to circulate linking the murder to witchcraft or satanism.[72]
October 1945 Caroline Evans Coedpoeth, Wrexham 39-year-old schoolteacher Caroline Evans was murdered next to a path through Pant Tywyll which she had taken on her way to visit her mother at the City Arms pub in Minera. Caroline was last seen on the evening of 6 October and her body was found the following day, she had been strangled.[73]
December 1945 Betty Hadden Torry, Aberdeen On the morning of 12 December 1945, a severed arm was found on the foreshore at Torry. Fingerprint analysis revealed that it had belonged to Elizabeth 'Betty' Hadden, a local 17-year-old girl; she had previously been arrested for shoplifting and police had kept her fingerprints on file. Betty had last been seen the previous day and there had been reports of screams being heard in the early hours of 12 December. The rest of Betty's remains were never found.[74]
May 1946 Robert Parrington Jackson Bristol The 33-year-old manager of the Odeon cinema in Union Street, Bristol, was shot on 29 May 1946 during a showing of the movie The Light that Failed. 2,000 people were watching the film when Robert Parrington Jackson was shot twice in his office but they remained oblivious to the attack. Robert died later in hospital. Robbery was a suggested motive but the key to the safe remained in the manager's pocket and the money in the safe was left untouched. In 1993, a man claimed that his father, a criminal called Billy 'The Fish' Fisher, had confessed to the murder on his deathbed in 1989.[75]
June 1946 Muriel Drinkwater Penllergaer, near Swansea Drinkwater, a 12-year-old schoolgirl, was raped and shot in the woods at Penllergaer, a village a few miles from Swansea. The case became known as the Little Red Riding Hood Murder.[76] In 2020, the BBC One documentary Dark Land: Hunting the Killers suggested that Ronnie Harries could have been the murderer. Harries was hanged in 1954 for the double murder of John and Phoebe Harries.[77][61]
July 1946 Sheila Martin Fawkham, Kent Sheila Martin, 11, was murdered in the early evening of 7 July 1946. She had last been seen at 4.30pm and her body was found early the following morning in Stony Field Wood, also known as Sun Hill Wood, in Fawkham Green. Sheila had been strangled with her hair ribbon and it was believed she died between 5pm and 6pm on 7 July.[78]
November 1946 Margaret Cook Narrow passage near Carnaby Street, Soho, London 26-year-old Margaret was shot dead outside the Blue Lagoon nightclub. Nobody was charged with her murder at the time, but Scotland Yard detectives interviewed a suspect in 2015 after he confessed to it.[79]
February 1948 Evan Harris Swansea Docks Evan David Harris, 71, was a retired industrial chemist who was a nightwatchman at Swansea's Consolidated Fisheries.[80] His body was found in the company's dry dock at South Dock on the morning of 28 February 1948. Although Evan had died from drowning, murder was suspected when signs of a struggle were discovered in the boiler house.[81]
April 1948 Jerzy Strzadla Aberdare, Glamorgan 32-year-old Jerzy Strzadla, a miner, was stabbed over forty times in Abedare Park in an apparent robbery on 19 April 1948. Money and his watch were stolen.[82]
November 1948 Terence McNamara 46 Richmond Street, Middlesbrough, North Yorkshire Terence was a 22-month-old infant who was murdered in his own home whilst his mother was out at work. His father had died in 1947.[83]
January 1949 Ernest Melville Swansea Two girls playing on a bomb site on Croft Street, Swansea, on 22 January 1949 came across the body of 38-year-old Ernest Melville, he had been brutally battered with bricks. He had last been seen the previous evening drinking in the Full Moon pub on High Street. Ernest was homosexual and police believed at the time that this was a reason for his murder.[84]
April 1949 Emily Armstrong St John's Wood, London Emily Armstrong, 69, was beaten to death and her body later found at her place of employment, a dry cleaner's shop on St John's Wood High Street. Police later determined she had been killed roughly an hour before her body was found at around 4:00 pm. A post-mortem examination also showed that her skull had been shattered by at least 22 blows from a blunt object, later believed to have been a claw hammer.
June 1949 Gertrude O'Leary Stokes Croft, Bristol 66-year-old Gertrude O'Leary was found beaten and strangled to death in the off-licence she owned on Thomas Street in Stokes Croft. It was determined that a gold watch and a jewelled pendant were missing, suggesting robbery as the motive. Despite extensive enquiries, the killer was never found.[85]
July 1951 Christine Butcher Windsor, Berkshire Seven-year-old Christine Butcher vanished on 8 July 1951 when she went to see the boxer Sugar Ray Robinson who was staying at the Star and Garter Hotel before his fight on 10 July with Randy Turpin at Earl's Court, London. Christine's body was found two days later in a meadow close to Windsor Castle, she had been strangled.[86][87]
March 1952 Lily Volpert Cardiff 41-year-old Lily Volpert was found dead in her shop, Volpert's Clothing Store, in the docklands area of Cardiff on 6 March 1952. Mahmood Hussein Mattan was found guilty of Lily's murder and hanged in September 1952. After a campaign to clear his name, Mahmood's conviction was quashed in 1998 and Lily's murderer has not been caught.[88]
November 1952 Patricia Curran White Abbey, County Antrim, Northern Ireland Curran, 19, was found dead in the ground of her father's estate house. Her father was a High Court judge. Iain Gordon, 21, an airman from Scotland stationed in Northern Ireland, confessed to the killing and was found insane at court. In 2000, having been released from hospital after several years by then-Prime Minister Brian Faulkner, the Court of Appeal agreed Gordon's confession was inadmissible as it had been tainted by controversially aggressive interview techniques employed by police and was potentially false. There being no other evidence against Gordon, the verdict was overturned and the crime remains unsolved.[89]
January 1954 Penelope Mogano Coventry, Warwickshire Penelope Mogano was found dead in a living-room chair, her face mutilated with a knife and the top of her head caved in from hammer blows. The killer did not ransack or steal whilst at the property.

Investigators wondered whether both 44-year-old Penelope's murder and an earlier incident involving her husband's car being set alight had a perpetrator with an attitude of contempt towards the old-style ballroom dancing the couple regularly participated in, but the line of inquiry into this theory led to a dead end. Another line of inquiry with disappointing results concerned a bogus official who called at houses near the Moganos' on the afternoon of the murder and in the days preceding it, saying that he was there to inspect the electricity meter and in at least one instance also making sexual advances to the woman who answered the door to him.

Neighbours told detectives of seeing Penelope make frequent afternoon trips from her home beginning in late 1953, but where she was going or whom she was going to meet on each of those occasions was not established. In all, some 25,000 people were interviewed by the police about her murder.[90]

April 1954 Olive May Bennett Stratford-upon-Avon, Warwickshire On Saturday, 24 April 1954, Olive May Bennett, 45, was seen drinking alone in the Red Horse Hotel in Bridge Street, Stratford. Shortly before midnight she was seen again, standing outside the hotel as the streets around her emptied. She had led a sheltered life until middle age, when she started smoking and drinking, taking endless pains with her make-up, drawing large sums of money from her Post Office bank account, and filling her address book with the names of men she was meeting.

The next morning her body was found wedged against an obstruction on the bank of the River Avon. She had been strangled with a long woollen scarf and her body was weighted with a 56 lb. tombstone wrenched from a riverside churchyard. Two women told police in 1962 that on the night of the murder, they were in the churchyard with two men and one of the men threatened to push them into the river and weigh them down with a tombstone. The men have never been traced.[91]

September 1954 Jean Townsend Ruislip, Middlesex On 15 September 1954, 21-year-old Jean Mary Townsend was found murdered on what was then wasteland near to the junction of Victoria Road and Angus Drive.[92] The autopsy report stated that she had been strangled with her own scarf. In 1982 the Metropolitan Police announced that they were to review their files on the case following some anonymous telephone calls. To this day, no one has been charged with Jean's killing and it remains unsolved. Britain's National Archives have indicated that the police files on the case are likely to be made available for public inspection in 2031.[93]
September 1955 Alice Barton Birkenhead, Merseyside A schoolboy found the body of Alice Barton, 49, in a wartime pillbox near the Woodchurch estate, Birkenhead, on 24 September 1955. Alice had been a sex worker and had been known to take her clients to the location where her body was found. A local woman has shared her suspicion that her grandfather may have been responsible for the murder.[94]
May 1956 The Ormesher Sisters Ormskirk, Lancashire The two elderly sisters, who ran a sweet shop in the small market town, were murdered in their own home. Despite national media coverage and an extensive investigation in which all of the adult male population of the town were fingerprinted, the identity or identities of the murderer or murderers has/have never been established.
September 1956 Jean Chalinder Cardiff 32-year-old Jean Chalinder, from Roath, was murdered while picking blackberries. Her body was found in a ditch at Llyn-y-Grant Farm on 20 September 1956, five days after she went missing. Jean had died from head injuries and police said the crime appeared to have been motiveless.[95]
May 1957 Teresa Łubieńska Attacked in South Kensington, London, died in hospital Teresa Łubieńska was a 73-year-old Polish countess who had been a lieutenant in the Polish Underground Army and survived two concentration camps. She was fatally stabbed on the eastbound Piccadilly line platform at Gloucester Road tube station on the evening of 24 May 1957. Her attacker was never caught.
June 1957 Emily Pye Halifax, West Yorkshire White-haired 80-year-old Emily Pye had run her grocery shop in Gibbet Street, Halifax for over 60 years. When her niece called on her on 8 June 1957, she found her aunt's body in a crumpled heap in the living quarters at the back of the shop. She had been battered to death with a fireside poker and had a fractured skull. Police immediately thought robbery was the motive for the attack when they discovered her killer had made off with just a few pounds from the till. Det Supt Herbert Hannam and Det Sgt Christopher Rowe called the killing a horrible murder case at the time and appealed for local people to get in touch. But from Halifax's population of 97,000 just four responded with leads which came to nothing. The murder remains unsolved as of today.[96]
June 1957 June and Royston Sheasby Bristol June Sheasby was seven and her brother, Royston, was five years old when the pair left their home in Brockworth Crescent, Stapleton, to visit some horses on 20 June 1957. They never returned home and after a large search, their bodies were found on 1 July in undergrowth near the River Frome in Snuff Mills Park. Both children had suffered head injuries. In 1964, a Home Office psychiatrist stated that a deceased prisoner jailed for a minor offence had confessed to him that he had killed two children. The psychiatrist didn't name the prisoner or confirm if he had been referring to the Sheasby children.[97]
December 1957 Anne Noblett Whitwell, Hertfordshire On the night of 30 December 1957, 17-year-old Anne Noblett alighted a bus on the corner of Lower Luton Road and Cherry Tree Lane in Wheathampstead and began the short walk home to Marshalls Heath. A month later her partially disrobed body was found seven miles away in Rose Grove Wood near Whitwell. Known as the Deep Freeze Murder, mystery surrounds the circumstances over her abduction and disappearance due to the frozen condition her body was found in and the relatively mild weather at the time. Despite extensive enquiries her killer has never been caught.[98][99]
January 1958 Mary Kriek Boxted, Essex Mary Kriek, a 19-year-old Dutch au pair, was beaten to death with a tyre lever after waving goodbye to a friend still on the bus she had just alighted from. It was 10:45 pm when Kriek got off the bus as it passed through Eight Ash Green – the village where the family she was staying with lived and a place some 14 miles from where her body would be found early the next day, on Monday, 6 January.[100] A link with the murder of Anne Noblett was suspected.[101]
April 1958 Susan Southgate Writtle, near Chelmsford, Essex A duster was stuffed into the 83-year-old's mouth and she was then gagged with insulation tape while the duster was still in there, tied to a chair (left in a turn of the stairs after getting stuck as it was being carried up with her in it) and burgled on 17 April 1958. One of the culprits later called the police from a phone box in Barking to make a request for officers to go to Susan's house and release her, but she had suffocated to death by the time she was found.[102]
June 1958 Harry Baker High Legh, Cheshire 61-year-old Harry Baker was last seen at 1.45 pm on 5 June 1958 talking to a man on Strand Road, Bootle. His body was found seventeen days later, on 23 June, wrapped in two sacks in woods at High Legh, near Knutsford. He had been beaten, strangled and robbed. The search for Harry's killer was one of the biggest ever manhunts on Merseyside.[103]
April 1959 Carol Ann Stephens Horeb, near Llanelli, Carmarthenshire Six-year-old Carol Stephens left her home on Malefant Street, Cardiff, to play outside on 7 April 1959. She never returned home and her body was found two weeks later in a river culvert near the village of Horeb, north of Llanelli. Carol had been suffocated before being dumped in the water. Police made a new appeal for information on the sixtieth anniversary of Carol's death in 2019.[104] In 2020, the BBC One documentary Dark Land: Hunting the Killers suggested that confectionery salesman Ronald Murray could have been the murderer.[105][61]
1959–1965 1959: Elizabeth Figg; 1963: Gwynneth Rees; 1964: Hannah Tailford, Irene Lockwood, Helene Barthelemy, Mary Fleming and Margaret McGowan; 1965: Bridget O'Hara West London Hammersmith nude murders, aka "Jack the Stripper" murders
August 1959 Florence Gooding Attacked in Oxted, Surrey, died at Wimbledon Hospital in London Florence Gooding, 75, was found badly beaten in her bed at her home on Oast Road, Oxted, on 4 August 1959. She died the following day. It is reported that forty years after Florence's death, a detective recalled that the main suspect had died before he could be interviewed.[106]
August 1959 Miles Vallint Croydon, London Eleven-year-old Miles Vallint was last seen alive on 27 August 1959 visiting a bicycle shop in Croydon; he had travelled there by bus from his home in Farnley Road, South Norwood. His body was found the following day on the site of a demolished vicarage on Tavistock Road, Croydon.[107]
January 1960 Eva Booth Hartley, Plymouth, Devon Found deceased with head injuries in an airing cupboard of her home on 25 January 1960. She was 70 years old.[108]
December 1960 Ronald Coomber Ilford, London 28-year-old Coomber was fatally stamped on in the neck on Friday 23 December in the grounds of the Ranch House Club on Ashurst Drive. He had been drinking at the club and was followed outside after getting into an argument with its owner and hitting him. Four men were acquitted over Coomber's death and awarded compensation.[109]
January 1961 Linda Smith Polstead, Suffolk Twelve-year-old Linda Smith, from Earls Colne in Essex, was talking to a cobbler in the main street of that village when she was last seen alive. A retired farmworker found her body in the Suffolk countryside four days later, and wrapped tightly around the neck was the scarf that had been used to strangle her (her own school scarf). There has never been an arrest in connection with this murder.[110]
April 1961 Patrick Mulligan Worcester When Patrick Mulligan, 22, was seen staggering and then collapsing in the street close to midnight on 8 April 1961, it was found that it was because he had been stabbed, and he soon died from the wound. The stabbing had taken place in public toilets in an adjoining road. A 39-year-old vagrant was cleared of Patrick's murder after a senior transport policeman had stated in court that he had seen the vagrant at a railway station many miles from Worcester that night.[111]
December 1961 Maureen Dutton Liverpool 27-year-old Maureen Dutton died in the presence of her sons (both under three years of age) when she was repeatedly stabbed in their house on Thingwall Lane, Knotty Ash within four weeks of giving birth to the younger of the two. The murderer did not leave the house with anything belonging to any of the Duttons and seemed to have gained entry to it by Maureen answering the door.

Three people who remain unidentified became suspects: a young male bogus doctor who had visited a woman at her Halewood address to offer postnatal care, a young man seen running along Thingwall Lane and vomiting outside a nearby church, and a young Irishwoman heard muttering to herself on a bus that she had to leave Liverpool as a matter of urgency, had "done something terrible" and was going to catch a plane from London.[112]

July 1962 Olive Duncan Hammersmith, London Spinster Olive Duncan, 61, worked as a secretary and was at home in her flat on Sulgrave Gardens when a man who had entered it via an open window bound and gagged her before leaving the property. She managed to ungag herself and alerted the caretaker of the flats by smashing a window, but died not long afterwards of heart failure.[113][114]
October 1962 Annie O'Donnell Clerkenwell, London Murdered on 12 October at the religious bookshop she owned, her assailant bludgeoned her and ransacked the premises before making off with money totalling about £600. Because a fingerprint of his was discovered at the scene and a witness claimed to have seen someone matching his description in the environs of the shop at or near the time of the crime, a 19-year-old was soon charged with it, despite appearing to have a good alibi. Tried three times in 1963, he was finally found not guilty of the 73-year-old's murder when no new evidence against him was presented during the third trial.[115]
September 1963 George Wilson Sneinton, Nottingham George Wilson's wife found him dying in a pool of blood close to the Fox & Grapes pub (of which he was the landlord) when she opened the door to it after hearing their dog barking and scratching at it from outside. The autopsy revealed stab wounds to various parts of his body. He had been having a nighttime stroll with the dog at the time of the attack.[116]
September 1963 Linda Cook Redcar, North Yorkshire On 21 September 1963, Linda Cook, a 22-year-old on the verge of relocating to Leeds to live in her father's property due to having separated from her husband, was staying at a friend's flat but never returned after telling him she was going to see her ex-employer (a local doctor whose surgery she had been working at as a receptionist) and would be back later. A milkman found her strangled to death in Green Lane the next day. Police interviewed thousands of people about the murder of the Redcar woman, but the information given to them during those interviews failed to lead to an arrest or to enable them to build up a detailed picture of her last movements.[117]
October/November 1963 Katherine Lillian Armstrong Newcastle Known by her middle name of Lillian, the 70-year-old retired headteacher was found dead in her home on Goldspink Lane, Sandyford, Newcastle, on 1 November 1963. She had been stabbed 28 times and had a nylon stocking tied around her neck, as well as defensive wounds on her hands. There was no sign of forced entry into her home.[118]
May 1964 Anne Dunwell Near Maltby, South Yorkshire On 7 May 1964, the body of 13-year-old Anne Dunwell was found strangled on a manure heap. She had been sexually assaulted. It is believed she was killed the previous evening after leaving her aunt's house to catch a bus to be with her grandmother. Despite a reported DNA 'breakthrough' in 2006, Anne's murderer has never been identified.[119][120]
October 1964 Arthur Cope Radcliffe-on-Trent, Nottinghamshire Lack of evidence of a break-in at Arthur Cope's caravan (where he was bludgeoned to death) led the police to think it was probable that the 56-year-old and his killer were known to each other. Analysis of a pair of bicycle handlebars taken from the crime scene ruled out either as the murder weapon, but they were kept in storage afterwards in spite of that. Builders found those handlebars during a renovation of a former police station in Newark in 2013.[121]
April 1965 Florence Lewis Wigmore, Kent Florence Lewis, a widow aged 77, was hit with a blunt object 14 times after opening the front door to her bungalow. The culprit might have targeted it because they were hoping to get their hands on a large quantity of money that they assumed would be stored away there somewhere.[122]
September 1965 Sidney Leeson Leicester Sidney Leeson, 75, was battered to death with a vase at his home by somebody he appeared to have let in. £23 was missing from a drawer that had been prised open there, presumably by the killer or an accomplice.[123]
October 1965 Elsie Frost Wakefield, West Yorkshire On 9 October 1965, the body of 14-year-old Elsie Frost was found with fatal stab wounds. A subsequent investigation turned up one suspect who was later released. After this there was no further investigation and details of the case were made exempt from a Freedom of Information request. The siblings of Elsie filed an FOI request when the original exemption date was coming to an end, only to find the exemption had been extended until 2060.[124][125] The case was reopened in 2015 after a series of reports on BBC Radio 4. Convicted child murderer, Peter Pickering, a man in his late seventies was arrested in September 2016 on suspicion of murder, more than 50 years after Elsie's death.[126] He was expected to be charged with Elsie's death but died before police could do so.[127]
December 1965 Ivor Pearce Stanmore, London The 30-year-old Edgware man was found dead in his taxi, killed by someone firing a bullet from an automatic pistol into the back of his head. A letter indicating that he and the perpetrator might have known each other had been received by the police by the fourth week of January 1966.[128]
December 1965 Alfred Bowler Attacked in Kegworth, Leicestershire, died at the Leicester Royal Infirmary 74-year-old Alfred Bowler owned a shop on Derby Road and died 23 days after being stabbed in the stomach during a struggle to stop a man taking money out of the till there.[129]
April 1966 Fred Craven Bingley, West Yorkshire Fred Craven's head was battered at his Wellington Street betting office and £195 was taken from the premises by the assailant (or possibly an accomplice). A man appearing to be in his 20s was seen near there during the crucial time window and soon regarded as a suspect, but efforts to identify him with certainty have not been successful. The victim was in his 60s.[130]
June 1966 Louis Bega Eccles, Manchester The father-of-two aged 43 was stabbed 26 times in his living room. As he lay dying from his wounds, he was heard to name his wife's lover as the culprit, but the police thought he had been killed because he had disturbed someone who was in his property to commit burglary.[131]
November 1966 Helen Davidson Amersham, Buckinghamshire On 9 November 1966, 49-year-old Dr Helen Davidson, a popular GP, was battered to death in dense woodland in Hodgemoor Wood a few miles from her Amersham home. She had been bird-watching and exercising her dog. Her body was found the next day, but nobody has been convicted of her murder.[132][133]
December 1966 Mavis Hudson Chesterfield, Derbyshire 15-year-old Mavis was last seen alive on 26 December 1966. The following day her body was found in a derelict building. She had been strangled. In spite of appeals on national TV, no arrest was ever made and the case remains unsolved.[134]
January 1967 Bernard Oliver Tattingstone, Suffolk Bernard Oliver, 17, disappeared on 6 January 1967 and his dismembered body was found in suitcases 10 days later at Tattingstone, near Ipswich. No-one has been charged over his murder but Suffolk Constabulary stated in January 2017 that DNA evidence may help to yield some clues 50 years on.[135]
March 1967 Ruth Bradbury Crowthorne, Berkshire 14-year-old Ruth Bradbury was shot dead in Simons Wood, close to Wellingtonia Avenue, on the morning of 29 March 1967 as she walked home from a shopping errand for her grandmother. Close by in the woodland was evidence that someone had been using trees and tin cans for target practice with a .22 rifle. It was believed that Ruth was accidentally shot as she walked through the woods.[136]
May 1967 Keith Lyon Woodingdean, East Sussex 12-year-old Keith Lyon was stabbed to death on a bridleway that links the villages of Ovingdean and Woodingdean, near Brighton, on 6 May 1967. Despite arrests in connection with Keith's death as recently as 2006, no-one has ever been charged with his murder.[137]
October 1967 Herbert Wilkinson Middlewich, Cheshire In October 1967, the body of 54-year-old solicitor Herbert Wilkinson was discovered in a shallow grave alongside the Trent & Mersey Canal at Whatcroft. Wilkinson, who had been struck off by the Law Society seven months earlier, had disappeared on 2 June after scribbling a note for his housekeeper. Based on the remote location, police believed Wilkinson had been taken there by boat. Beyond that, nothing could be determined, and a Coroner's Inquest in March 1968 returned a verdict of murder by person or persons unknown.[138]
November 1967 Rita Ellis RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire On 12 November 1967, the body of Rita Ellis was found partially hidden under leaves and foliage at Rowborough Copse, part of the RAF Halton Estate. Ellis, who was in the WRAF and worked in the catering department of the RAF hospital on the camp, had been beaten, sexually assaulted and strangled. She was last seen on the previous evening (11 November). The case was re-opened in 2017 for a second time, although new DNA techniques have meant that the police now have a DNA profile of the killer.[139]
January 1968 Kimberley Jackson Norton, County Durham Five-month-old Kimberley Jackson was taken in her pram from outside the back door of her home in Carmel Gardens, Norton. She was found an hour-and-a-half later drowned in water at nearby Billingham Bottoms. A teenage boy was seen pushing the pram and it was abandoned in Amble View, a short distance from where Kimberley was found.[140]
1968–1969 February 1968: Patricia Docker; August 1969: Jemima McDonald; October 1969: Helen Puttock Glasgow "Bible John" victims.
February 1968 Mary Judge Leeds The naked and battered body of prostitute Mary Judge, 43, was found on 26 February near Leeds Parish Church. It has been speculated but never proven that it was Peter Sutcliffe (dubbed "the Yorkshire Ripper" some years after this slaying) who killed her.[141]
March 1968 David Lawrence Southwark, London Five-year-old David Lawrence was murdered in public toilets in a children's playground in Tabard Gardens, Southwark, on 8 March 1968. David had lived with his family in Rochester House on Manciple Street - the building overlooks the park where he had been playing.[142][143]
August 1968 Adeline Bracegirdle Macclesfield, Cheshire A 22-year-old man's conviction for the murder of Adeline Bracegirdle was quashed in July 1984 (he was 38 by then) following a second appeal against it. Bracegirdle, an 84-year-old spinster, had died from strangulation at her home.[144]
November 1968 Ernest Bennett Lewisham, London 57-year-old Ernest Bennett was a newsagent and his attacker stole £200 from the till in his shop on George Lane after battering him there and leaving his body (or leaving him for dead) in a disused air-raid shelter behind the shop.[145]
April 1969 Annie Walker Heather, Leicestershire Annie Walker, a retired pub landlady in her 70s, was beaten to death in her home on 2 April. The perpetrator stole cash totalling £1,000 from there as well. In 2005, by re-examining bloodstains on a piece of clothing from the scene, forensic scientists were hoping to extract DNA samples which would positively identify the murderer.[146]
September 1969 Reginald Stevens Luton, Bedfordshire Whilst working at the post office where he was employed as a sub-postmaster, Reginald Stevens was shot dead during a raid that witness statements indicated four men were involved in. Three men received prison sentences for his murder and the raid, but in 1973, the conviction of one of them was quashed. Ongoing concerns about the convictions of the other two meant that in 1980, they too were allowed to walk free; however, the guilty verdicts against them were not formally declared unsafe until a court ruling posthumously exonerated both men in 2003. No other person has been charged with murdering Reginald or robbing the post office that day.[147]

See also[]

  • List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom

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