CASE 023Horwich, Greater Manchester/2008Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb & Barbara MayoA 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?CASE 023Horwich, Greater Manchester/2008Sarah MeliaA 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?CASE 022Swansea, South Wales/1985Sandra PhillipsA city-centre murder, two unsafe convictions and a case that remains unresolved.CASE 021Soho, London/2004Camille GordonA Soho hostess was killed by a customer whose face was captured on camera but never identified.CASE 020Woking, Surrey/1994Karen ReedA professional execution at the wrong address left an innocent woman dead.CASE 019County Durham/1996–98Julie Smailes & Rachel ToughTwo murders, two miles apart, and questions that DNA has only partly answered.CASE 018Eaton, Cheshire/1994Tracy MertensAbducted in Birmingham and set alight sixty miles away, Tracy used her final hours to describe her killers.CASE 017Leigh, Greater Manchester/1984Lisa HessionA teenage girl was murdered yards from home after a series of attacks in the same area.CASE 016Johnstone, Renfrewshire/1981–84Pamela Hastie & Tracey WatersTwo young women were murdered near their homes and doubt still surrounds the investigations.CASE 015Epping Forest, London & Essex/1989–90Patricia Lee Parsons, Terry Gooderham & Maxine ArnoldThree execution-style murders in and around Epping Forest remain unsolved.CASE 014Preston, Lancashire/1996Janet MurgatroydJanet survived a violent attack only to be left helpless in the River Ribble.CASE 013Huntingdonshire, Cambridgeshire/1983Janice WestonA London solicitor was found murdered beside the A1, and her car surfaced sixty miles away.CASE 012Irvine, North Ayrshire/1994Shona StevensA mother was fatally attacked on a public footpath. More than thirty years later, a man has been charged and proceedings are active.CASE 011County Clare, Ireland/2005Emer O’LoughlinA burned-out mobile home, a concealed murder and a suspect who disappeared abroad.CASE 010Bedford, Bedfordshire/2005Kamila GarsztkaA death in Bedford’s Priory Lake led to a conviction that expert evidence could not sustain.CASE 009Eastbourne, East Sussex/2005Jennifer KielyJennifer was stabbed and set alight on Eastbourne seafront. In 2025, familial DNA led police to identify a deceased suspect.CASE 008Rainford, Merseyside/1994Julie FinleyJulie’s clothing, a van and a witness account created leads that have never produced a charge.CASE 007Grantham, Lincolnshire/1994Sharon Harper + Julie PaceyTwo women were strangled months apart in Grantham, but detectives still disagree over whether the murders are linked.CASE 006Baitings Dam, West Yorkshire/1988–89Laurence WinstanleyA mechanic missing from Oldham was found murdered and concealed in a reservoir a year later.CASE 005Hull, East Yorkshire/2017Renata AntczakRenata vanished during a marriage breakdown and one of Hull’s largest murder inquiries followed.CASE 004Middlesbrough & North Yorkshire/2000Vicky GlassSix weeks after Vicky disappeared, her remains were found near Danby. A 2026 arrest was followed by bail while enquiries continue.CASE 003Kettering, Northamptonshire/2000Sarah BenfordA fourteen-year-old in local-authority care vanished after repeated warnings that she was at risk.CASE 002Wooburn Green, Buckinghamshire/2006Beata BrylBeata’s burned remains were found in woodland in one of Thames Valley Police’s most disturbing unsolved cases.CASE 001Manchester & Staffordshire/1993–94Adnan Abdul Hameed Al SaneA Kuwaiti businessman was murdered, dismembered and left at two locations after a London dinner.
