Murder + Missing
Persons Cases

Factual accounts of murder and missing persons cases. Researched with care. Told without spectacle.

Investigations

Horwich, Greater Manchester2008

Sarah Melia

A daughter returned home from school to find her mother murdered. More than seventeen years later, one question still hangs over the family home: who came through the door?

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Swansea, South Wales1985

Sandra Phillips

A city-centre murder, two unsafe convictions and a case that remains unresolved.

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Soho, London2004

Camille Gordon

A Soho hostess was killed by a customer whose face was captured on camera but never identified.

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Woking, Surrey1994

Karen Reed

A professional execution at the wrong address left an innocent woman dead.

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County Durham1996–98

Julie Smailes & Rachel Tough

Two murders, two miles apart, and questions that DNA has only partly answered.

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Eaton, Cheshire1994

Tracy Mertens

Abducted in Birmingham and set alight sixty miles away, Tracy used her final hours to describe her killers.

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