Cold Cases in United Kingdom
ColdCaseIndex documents 32 cases in United Kingdom, dated 1888 to 2023. 13 are recorded as unsolved. The earliest is Jack the Ripper Victims (1888) and the most recent is Baby Victoria (daughter of Constance Marten & Mark Gordon) (2023).
Regions covered: London (7), Scotland (1), North Yorkshire (1), South Yorkshire (1), Suffolk (1), England (1), Oklahoma (1), Northern Ireland (1).
- Unsolved 13 (41%)
- Charges or trial pending 1 (3%)
- Solved or convicted 18 (56%)
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Baby Victoria (daughter of Constance Marten & Mark Gordon)
Newborn Victoria died in early 2023 while her parents, Constance Marten and Mark Gordon, were living in a tent on the South Downs to avoid social services.
Brianna Ghey
Brianna Ghey, a 16-year-old transgender girl, was stabbed to death in Culcheth Linear Park near Warrington, England, on February 11, 2023.
David Carrick Victims
Former Metropolitan Police officer David Carrick admitted 49 offences, including 24 counts of rape, against 12 women between 2003 and 2020.
Lucy Letby Victims
Neonatal nurse Lucy Letby was convicted of murdering seven babies and attempting to murder six others at the Countess of Chester Hospital. She received a whole-life order.
Natalie McNally
Natalie McNally, 32 and 15 weeks pregnant, was beaten and stabbed to death at her home in Lurgan, County Armagh, on December 18, 2022.
Sarah Everard
Sarah Everard, 33, was kidnapped while walking home in Clapham, south London, on March 3, 2021, by serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens, who used his warrant card and handcuffs to detain her.
Yorkshire Ripper (death)
Peter Sutcliffe, convicted in May 1981 of murdering 13 women and attempting to murder seven more in Yorkshire and north-west England between 1975 and 1980, died on November 13, 2020 at University Hospital of North Durham after…
Sergei & Yulia Skripal Poisoning
Former Russian intelligence officer Sergei Skripal and his daughter Yulia were poisoned with the nerve agent Novichok in Salisbury, England, on March 4, 2018, and survived.
Corrie McKeague
RAF gunner Corrie McKeague, 23, vanished after a night out in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, on September 24, 2016. CCTV showed him entering an area containing commercial waste bins, and a months-long landfill search found no remains.
Liam Fee
Two-year-old Liam Fee died at his home near Glenrothes, Fife, Scotland, on March 22, 2014, from heart injuries caused by blunt force trauma.
Stephen Port Victims
Stephen Port killed four young men with overdoses of GHB at his flat in Barking, east London, between June 2014 and September 2015, after meeting them online.
Joanna Dennehy Victims
Lukasz Slaboszewski, 31, John Chapman, 56, and Kevin Lee, 48, were stabbed to death in Peterborough, England, in March 2013 and their bodies left in ditches.
April Jones
Mark Bridger was convicted on 30 May 2013 of abducting and murdering five-year-old April Jones, who was taken from the Bryn-y-Gog estate in Machynlleth, Wales, on 1 October 2012. He received a whole-life order at Mold Crown Court.
Daniel Pelka
Daniel Pelka, 4, died of a head injury on March 3, 2012, in Coventry, England, after months of starvation and beatings. His mother, Magdalena Luczak, and her partner, Mariusz Krezolek, were convicted of murder at Birmingham…
Claudia Lawrence
Claudia Lawrence, a 35-year-old chef at the University of York, was last seen on March 18, 2009, walking towards her home in Heworth, York, and failed to arrive for work the next morning.
Andrew Gosden
Andrew Gosden, 14, has been missing since September 14, 2007, when he skipped school in Doncaster, withdrew about £200 and travelled alone by train to London on a one-way ticket.
Alexander Litvinenko
Former Russian spy Alexander Litvinenko was poisoned with polonium-210 in London. A British inquiry concluded Russian President Putin probably approved the operation. Two suspects were identified.
Peter Tobin Victims
Peter Tobin was convicted of murdering Angelika Kluk, 23, in Glasgow in 2006, and of the 1991 murders of Vicky Hamilton, 15, and Dinah McNicol, 18, whose remains were found in 2007 at a house in Margate, Kent, where he had once…
Holly Wells & Jessica Chapman
Ten-year-olds Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were murdered by school caretaker Ian Huntley in Soham, Cambridgeshire, in August 2002.
Jill Dando
BBC presenter Jill Dando, 37, was shot once in the head outside her home in Fulham, London, on April 26, 1999. Barry George was convicted of her murder in 2001, but the Court of Appeal quashed the conviction in 2007 and a jury…
Dena Ann Dean
Sixteen-year-old Dena Ann Dean disappeared after leaving work at a grocery store in the Town West Shopping Center in Tulsa, Oklahoma, on June 6, 1998.
Richey Edwards
Manic Street Preachers lyricist and guitarist Richey Edwards, 27, left the Embassy Hotel in London on February 1, 1995, the day he was due to fly to the US. His car was later found at a service station by the Severn crossing.
Fred & Rose West Victims
In February and March 1994, police found the remains of nine young women and girls at 25 Cromwell Street, Gloucester, the home of Fred and Rose West; three more victims were found elsewhere.
Trevaline Evans
Antiques dealer Trevaline Evans, 52, left her shop on Church Street in Llangollen, north Wales, on June 16, 1990, with a note on the door saying she would be back in two minutes. Her handbag stayed in the shop and her car nearby.
Daniel Morgan
Private investigator Daniel Morgan, 37, was killed with an axe in the car park of the Golden Lion pub in Sydenham, south London, on March 10, 1987.
Suzy Lamplugh
Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh, 25, vanished on July 28, 1986 after leaving her Fulham office to show a property on Shorrolds Road to a client recorded as 'Mr Kipper'. She has never been found and was declared dead in 1993.
Georgi Markov
Bulgarian dissident writer Georgi Markov was assassinated on Waterloo Bridge in London when a ricin-filled pellet was injected into his leg using a modified umbrella.
Sandra Rivett
Sandra Rivett, 29, nanny to the children of Lord and Lady Lucan, was killed in the basement of the family home at 46 Lower Belgrave Street, London, on November 7, 1974.
Bible John Victims
Patricia Docker, 25, Jemima MacDonald, 31, and Helen Puttock, 29, were each strangled after nights out at Glasgow's Barrowland Ballroom between February 1968 and October 1969.
Moors Murders Victims
Ian Brady and Myra Hindley killed five children and teenagers in the Manchester area between July 1963 and October 1965, burying four of them on Saddleworth Moor.
Jack the Stripper Victims
Between February 1964 and February 1965, the bodies of six women who worked as prostitutes were found undressed in or near the River Thames in west London, in what became known as the Hammersmith nude murders.
Jack the Ripper Victims
At least five women were murdered and mutilated in the Whitechapel district of London in 1888. The killer, who was never identified, taunted police with letters signed 'Jack the Ripper.' The case became the world's most famous…