It should have been a happy day. The 28th November 1981 saw the  Lee family, celebrating the second birthday of their youngest daughter, Katrice. The Lees lived in West Germany as Richard, Katrice’s Father, was stationed there with the British Army. A party was planned later that day but first they needed some supplies from the British Forces supermarket. During the short trip the toddler was out of sight for a matter of seconds, but it was long enough for Katrice to vanish without a trace. What happened to her remains a mystery to this day.

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Disappearance of Katrice Lee: How the investigation has unfolded

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/i-never-give-up-search-25507505.amp

https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/19746748.missing-katrice-lees-sister-appeals-information-two-years-swindon-home-searched/

https://www.sundaypost.com/news/scottish-news/killer-robert-blacks-chilling-link-unsolved-1981-abduction-toddler-katrice-lee/

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14497914.father-missing-katrice-lee-dismisses-robert-black-theory/

https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/10007227/dad-katrice-lee-still-alive-37-years/amp/

https://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/crime/robert-black-could-have-snatched-toddler-1239190?amp

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https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10459795/amp/DNA-blood-tests-finally-solve-1997-murder-Billie-Jo-Jenkins-13.html

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A couple of days after Christmas 1888, seven year old John Gill got up early, as he did most mornings, to assist local milk man William Barrett with his deliveries around the area of Manningham in Bradford. It was an icy morning so John was wrapped up warm as the horse and cart trundled off and he waved goodbye to his mother. John was never to return. 48 hours later his mutilated remains were discovered in a stable close to his home. The young man who had stumbled upon the gruesome sight, immediately recalled the newspaper stories detailing five horrific murders that had occurred in the East End of London over the autumn of that year. He quickly sprinted for help yelling “Jack the Ripper has been!”

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British Newspaper Archive

Bradford Daily Telegraph
03/01/1889
04/01/1889
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06/01/1889
08/01/1889
09/01/1889
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14/01/1889
18/01/1889
19/01/1889
25/01/1889
Hartlepool Northern Daily Press
29/12/1888
31/12/1888
Aberystwyth Observer
5 Jan 1889
South Wales Echo
31/12/1888
Freemans Journal
01/01/1889
South Wales Daily News
06/02/1889
Lloyds Weekly Newspaper
03/02/1889
Portsmouth Evening News
04/02/1889
Eastern Daily Press
06/02/1889
Glasgow Herald
12/03/1889
Batley Reporter and Guardian
13/04/1889

Websites

https://www.jack-the-ripper-tour.com/generalnews/the-murder-of-john-gill/

https://www.leedstrinity.ac.uk/blog/blog-posts/the-bradford-murder-mystery-jack-the-ripper-up-north.ph

https://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15601386.amp/

https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/178303745/john-gill

https://kpoulin1.wordpress.com/2009/11/04/the-murder-of-john-gill/

https://www.shortstories101.com/story/the-john-gill-case/amp/

https://wessyman137.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/manningham-cold-case/

https://crimeshop.org/tag/john-gill/

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/article/jack-the-ripper-revealed-they-all-love-jack-bruce-robinson/amp

https://victorianripper.forumotion.com/t1032-murder-of-john-gill

https://www.reddit.com/r/HistoricCrimes/comments/4c09jr/the_ripperesque_murder_of_john_gill_1888/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

https://www.casebook.org/suspects/james_maybrick/maybrick.html

https://www.jack-the-ripper.org/james-maybrick.htm

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It was approaching 4.00am when a train pulled into Korsor station on the island of Zealand in Denmark. 17 year old Emilie Meng and her friends had been on a night out in a neighbouring town to celebrate the end of their 2016 summer exams. The two friends got into a taxi but Emilie decided to walk the short distance from the station back to her home. She never made it back and for the next six months her disappearance gripped the nation, with dozens of sightings of her across Europe. This story was not to have a happy ending and on Christmas Eve the family’s worst fears were confirmed and a murder investigation was begun. 

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• https://medium.com/the-mystery-box/unsolved-mysteries-the-abduction-and-murder-of-emilie-meng-c40db137b8e9
• https://reasonedcrimechronicle.com/the-unsolved-murder-of-17-year-old-emilie-meng-a-danish-tale/
• https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8465131/Swedish-journalist-dismembered-inventor-new-book-links-teenage-girls-death.
• https://www.reddit.com/r/UnresolvedMysteries/comments/g2acoy/update_in_the_emilie_meng_case_possible_sightings/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf

Danish sites translated 

• https://www-tv2east-dk.translate.goog/drabet-paa-emilie-meng/mysteriet-om-emilie-meng-dag-for-dag?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://www-bt-dk.translate.goog/emilie-meng-mysteriet/uhyggeligt-drab-i-island-pludselig-kaedet-sammen-med-emilie-meng-var?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://www-nrk-no.translate.goog/nyheter/drapet-pa-emilie-meng-_17_-1.13060966?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://www-dagens-dk.translate.goog/112/emilie-har-vaeret-vaek-i-fire-maaneder-her-er-politiets-tre-teorier?_x_tr_sl=da&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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16 year old Kevin Hicks vanished on a Sunday evening in March 1986 after going on an errand to the local corner shop. Two and a half years later 15 year old Lee Boxell disappeared on a Saturday afternoon, he was thought to be on his way to watch a football match. Both boys lived relatively close to each other in neighbouring boroughs of South London. Neither of the boys have been seen since and their families continue to search for the truth. In the last decade police have said they suspect foul play.

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https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/14976865.schoolboy-went-missing-30-years-ago-murdered-police-now-believe---20-000-reward-information/

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4052178/amp/Schoolboy-16-vanished-30-years-ago-going-buy-eggs-murdered-say-police-offer-20-000-reward-new-information.html

https://www.standard.co.uk/news/crime/kevin-hicks-ps20-000-reward-to-solve-mystery-of-boy-who-vanished-after-going-to-buy-eggs-in-croydon-a3424541.html?amp

https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/local/14977602.Schoolboy_missing_for_30_years_was_groomed_before_he_was__murdered___detectives_believe/

https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9036610.how-cheam-child-rapist-william-lambert-was-finally-caught-20-years-after-his-crimes/

https://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/news/disappearance-of-lee-boxell/

https://amp.theguardian.com/uk-news/2014/apr/08/lee-boxell-disappearance-three-men-arrested

https://www.yourlocalguardian.co.uk/news/9026382.st-dunstans-church-gravedigger-convicted-of-sex-charges-against-young-girls-in-cheam/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/boy-died-trying-to-expose-youth-club-abuse-say-police-wq79mcj2l

https://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/man-walked-out-after-argument-20851041.amp

British Newspaper Archive 

Staffordshire Sentinel 
19/04/94

Aberdeen Press and Journal
05/10/93
Sunday Mirror
06/05/93
Daily Mirror
28/07/90
10/04/91

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The murder of Father Alexander Men was one of the defining moments of the last years of the Soviet Union. One Sunday morning in September 1990 on his journey to lead Mass the 55 year old priest was struck down with an axe by unidentified assailants. Father Men was a much-loved parish priest, an influential theologian and somewhat of of a celebrity, but he had many detractors. The KGB, Russian Nationalists and conservative elements within the Orthodox Church have all come under suspicion for the murder. Despite fifteen confessions, one trial and numerous theories and conspiracies, the crime remains unsolved. 

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• https://www.ncronline.org/news/people/struck-down-orthodox-priest-alexander-men-also-struck-chord
• https://www.google.co.uk/amp/s/peoplepill.com/amp/people/alexander-men
• http://www.alexandermen.com/Assasination_of_Father_Men
• http://www.alexandrmen.ru/biogr/english.html
• http://www.passportmagazine.ru/article/1701/

Translated from Russian 

• https://m-lenta-ru.translate.goog/articles/2020/09/09/meny/amp/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://www-kommersant-ru.translate.goog/doc/266547?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://www-miloserdie-ru.translate.goog/article/otets-aleksandr-men-30-let-so-dnya-ubijstva/?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://www-svoboda-org.translate.goog/amp/28978316.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://24smi-org.translate.goog/celebrity/42160-aleksandr-men.html?_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://ria-ru.translate.goog/20100909/273252837.html?_x_tr_sl=auto&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp
• https://golubinski-ru.translate.goog/gb/men.html?_x_tr_sch=http&_x_tr_sl=ru&_x_tr_tl=en&_x_tr_hl=en&_x_tr_pto=wapp

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There was nothing that Vera Page loved more in the world than swimming at the Lancaster Road Baths, in  Notting Hill, West London.  The 10 year old was proud of her achievements in the pool, especially of the two certificates she had just been awarded. On Monday the 14th of December 1931,  Vera got home from school and headed two minutes down the road to her  Aunt Minnie's house to collect the certificates which she had left with her the previous day.  She was excited to show them to other members of her family.  Vera told her Mum she wouldn't be long.  She arrived at her Aunt's at 4.40pm and chatted briefly before leaving for home.  For whatever reason, Vera did not return straight home and instead walked past her house and continued to Portobello Road, a popular shopping area. She was spotted several times over the next couple of hours, but Vera never returned home.

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https://truecrimeengland.wordpress.com/2020/10/31/the-murder-of-vera-page/amp/

https://www.truecrimelibrary.com/crimearticle/vera-page/

http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=1348&termRef=Vera%20Isobel%20Minnie%20Page

https://en-academic.com/dic.nsf/enwiki/487292

https://mysteriousuniverse.org/2020/03/the-mysterious-disappearance-and-death-of-vera-page/

https://truecrimediva.com/vera-page/

British Newspaper Archive

Dundee Evening Telegraph
16/12/31
10/02/32
11/02/32
Dundee Courier
11/02/32
Daily News (London)
17/12/31
17/12/31
24/12/31
06/01/32
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11/01/32
25/01/32
12/02/32
Daily Mirror 
19/12/31
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22/12/31
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Sunday Mirror
20/12/31
24/01/32
Daily Herald
06/01/32
08/02/32
12/03/32
West London Observer
25/12/31
07/01/32Leicester Evening Mail
22/12/31
Ballymena Weekly Telegraph 
26/12/31
Reynolds Newspaer
27/12/31
Western Daily Press
01/01/32
Sunday Sun (Newcastle)
03/01/32
Belfast Telegraph 
04/01/32
05/01/32
12/02/32
Weekly Dispatch 
23/01/32
28/02/32
14/02/32
Northampton Mercury 
29/01/32
The People
17/01/32
31/01/32
Nottingham Evening Post
18/02/32
Graphic
20/02/32
Aberdeen Press and Journal
08/02/32
15/02/32
Sheffield Independent 
25/01/32
Derby Daily Telegraph 
15/01/32
Western Mail
18/01/32

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Like many children living in Atlanta, Georgia in the early twentieth century, thirteen year old Mary Phagan no longer went to school. Instead she regularly worked ten hour days to help put food on her family’s table. Life was tough but the morning of 26th April 1913 Mary awoke excited; it was a holiday and she was looking forward to the parade later that afternoon. First she had to run an errand and collect her pay from the National Pencil Factory where she worked. Mary arrived just after midday but would never leave the factory. Over 12 hours later her murdered body was found in the dingy basement of the factory, triggering a tragic saga that continues to have wide reaching consequences over 100 years later.  

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https://www.britannica.com/biography/Leo-Frank

https://www.history.com/.amp/this-day-in-history/girl-murdered-in-pencil-factory

https://amp.tennessean.com/amp/4819312002

https://www.famous-trials.com/leo-frank/38-ballad

https://www.famous-trials.com/leo-frank/27-home

https://www.atlantamagazine.com/news-culture-articles/did-leo-frank-kill-mary-phagan-106-years-later-we-might-finally-find-out-for-sure/

https://law.jrank.org/pages/2788/Leo-Frank-Trial-1913-Little-Mary-Phagan-Murdered.html

https://law.jrank.org/pages/2789/Leo-Frank-Trial-1913-Prosecutors-Emphasize-Frank-s-Nervousness.html

https://law.jrank.org/pages/2793/Leo-Frank-Trial-1913.html

https://www.leofrank.org/the-troubling-testimony-of-alonzo-mann-in-the-murder-of-little-mary-phagan/

https://littlemaryphagan.com

https://www.adl.org/sites/default/files/documents/assets/pdf/education-outreach/people-v-leo-frank-teachers-guide-the.pdf

https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/history-archaeology/leo-frank-case/

https://heathermonroe.medium.com/the-divisive-death-of-mary-phagan-1317c5e0c981

https://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/books/who-killed-mary-phagan.htm

Oney, Steve. And the Dead Shall Rise: The Murder of Mary Phagan and the Lynching of Leo Frank. Random House. 2004.

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Anne Noblett was last seen alive at 6.03pm on 30th December 1957. The 17 year old had just returned from a rock and roll dance class in a neighbouring village. She vanished on the short walk from the bus stop to her family's home on Marshall Heath Lane in Wheathampstead, Hertfordshire. A month later, her body was found in a secluded woodland around 17km away. Anne was fully clothed and her arms had been placed across her chest. Silver and gold coins adorned the ground and it looked like the body had been frozen before being so delicately posed in this macabre tableau.

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https://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/nostalgia/crimelibrary/annenoblett/

https://defrostingcoldcases.com/anne-theresa-noblett-1940-1957/

http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=1046

https://www.herts.police.uk/news-and-appeals/60-year-murder-anniversary-appeal-Anne-Noblett-1292G

https://reasonedcrimechronicle.com/unsolved-case-of-anne-noblett-the-deep-freeze-murder-1957/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-42341980

http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=886&termRef=Mary%20Kriek

https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/birmingham-christmas-killing-shocked-nation-8277490.amp

http://www.unsolved-murders.co.uk/murder-content.php?key=1279&termRef=Diana%20Suttey

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Liverpool Echo 
02/01/58
07/01/58
01/02/58
07/02/58
Leicester Evening Mail
02/01/58
06/01/58
07/04/58
Daily Mirror 
03/01/58
07/01/58
23/01/58
05/02/58
06/02/58
17/02/58
03/04/58
14/04/58
15/04/58
Manchester Evening News
03/01/58
03/02/58
06/02/58
29/03/58
05/12/58
Daily News (London) 
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04/01/58
07/01/58
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30/01/58
04/02/58
07/02/58
11/02/58
15/02/58
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01/04/58
02/04/58
15/04/58
11/09/58
Daily Herald
04/01/58
08/01/58
10/02/58
15/02/58
26/02/58
29/03/58
03/04/58
03/07/58
05/12/58
Western mail
05/02/58
13/04/58
15/04/58
12/05/58
Halifax Evening Courier
01/02/58
06/02/58
Birmingham Daily Post
07/01/58
11/02/58
01/04/58
04/06/58
Shields Daily News
27/01/58
Sunday Mirror
02/02/58
Newcastle Chronicle 
02/04/58
Coventry Evening News
07/01/60

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When the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers walked off stage at the London Astoria on 21st December 1994, they left in their wake a mangled mess of guitars and amps. The band had signed off their last date on tour by smashing their instruments, which, in hindsight, signaled the end of an era. 6 weeks later, troubled lyricist and driving force of the band Richey Edwards disappeared on the eve of a promotional tour to the USA. He has not been seen by his family or his band mates since that day. A couple of weeks later his car was found abandoned near a notorious suicide spot, but no body has ever been found. Rumours of sightings and conspiracies have fueled the belief that Richey is still alive and a recent book has presented a compelling case that the 27 year old faked his own death and staged his disappearance in order to vanish into obscurity. 

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• /https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/richey-edwards-manic-street-preachers-disappearance-missing-25-year-anniversary-a9308046.html?amp
• https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/culture/article/richey-edwards-disappearance/amp
• https://www.nme.com/news/music/new-evidence-emerges-suggest-richey-edwards-staged-disappearance-2438975?amp
• https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/richey-edwards-manic-street-preachers-17661457.amp
• https://www.penguin.co.uk/articles/2019/jan/withdrawn-traces-richey-edwards-day-of-disappearance.html
• https://amp.theguardian.com/music/2008/nov/29/richey-edwards-manic-street-preachers
• https://www.indiependent.co.uk/the-legacy-of-richey-edwards-26-years-later/?amp=1
• https://repeatfanzine.wordpress.com/2019/01/31/withdrawn-traces-searching-for-the-truth-about-richey-manic/amp/
• https://m.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/richey-edwards-family-pain-revealed-30952604.html
• https://www.nme.com/blogs/nme-blogs/richey-edwards-share-your-memories-779334?amp

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A crowd quickly gathered outside the Private Shop on Dilwyn Street, Swansea, following news of the horrific and shocking events of the morning. The body of 38 year old shop manager Sandra Phillips had been found inside in a pool of blood. The mother of four had been sexually assaulted, bludgeoned and strangled. Two homeless brothers, Wayne and Paul Darvell were among the onlookers in the crowd and were quickly arrested for the crime.  This was the beginning of a dark tale of lies and injustice that continues to haunt South Wales to this day.

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• theguardian.com/uk/2005/jun/14/ukcrime.stevenmorris
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/8299042.stm
• www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/detectives-lied-to-murder-trial-court-told-brothers-convictions-for-sex-shop-killing-relied-on-forged-entries-in-police-interview-notebooks-1422873.html%3famp
• www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/police-made-up-statement-in-murder-inquiry-1533077.html%3famp
• www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/swansea-sex-shop-murder-latest-2075370.amp
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4087890.stm
• https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/detectives-lied-to-murder-trial-court-told-brothers-convictions-for-sex-shop-killing-relied-on-forged-entries-in-police-interview-notebooks-1422873.html?amp
• https://southwalesmedia.com/the-swansea-murder-with-a-south-wales-police-apology
• https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/family-backs-sex-murder-review-2460001http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4087890.stm
• https://alchetron.com/Rough-Justice-%28TV-series%29
• https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/big-response-sex-shop-killing-2371500.amp
• https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/swansea-sex-shop-murder-latest-2075370.amp
• http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/4309800.stm
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