During the afternoon of February 19th 2008 a young school girl was meant to return home after a school trip to a local swimming pool. Her disappearance united the community and ignited a nationwide search to find her. For three and half weeks, the complex twists and turns were featured daily on the front pages of national newspapers....
Colchester is said to be the birthplace of some of the most famous nursery rhymes we are told as children to make us feel safe, and lull us to sleep. However, in the spring and summer of 2014, this Essex town would get a sharp wakeup call as two brutal knife attacks would scare the public so much that people were afraid to walk home alone at...
On the morning of Thursday March 21st 2002 John Darwin took his red canoe, called the Orca, out for a paddle at the seaside of Seaton Carew in Hartlepool. After John didn't return that evening, an extensive search was undertaken across the coastline to find him. The wreckage of his canoe and a double ended paddle were recovered but with no sign...
Halloween 2010 - Joanna Brown was waiting at her home in Ascot, Berkshire expecting the return of her two children after they had been on a half-term visit to their fathers. She was in the middle of a costly divorce and it was taking it’s toll on not only her, but also her husband. When the children arrived, accompanied by their...
On the evening of Saturday September 11th in 1971 a robbery was taking place on Baker Street in London. Months of planning had finally come to fruition and Anthony Gavin, Reginald Tucker and Thomas Stephens were just hours away from getting the score of a lifetime. There was however one big problem. They were stuck in a tunnel they...
On Thursday January 14th 2016 Sadie Hartley, a 60 year old mother of two, had spent the day at work. She arrived home in the early afternoon and then set off to her local stables. Later that evening, after returning home alone, there was a knock at the door. The scene that unfolded, though seemingly random in nature, was a targeted effort to...