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The body of a 48-year-old woman, later identified as Dagmar Peters, was discovered concealed in a dense hedgerow on Wrotham Hill in Kent, England, on Thursday, October 31, 1946, prompting a massive investigation by Scotland Yard’s Chief Inspector Robert Fabian and Kent CID’s Detective Superintendent Frank Smeed. The victim, a quiet and reclusive former telephone … Read more

The tranquil landscape of the English Lake District, a place of serene fells and poetic inspiration, was shattered in June 1928 by a crime of such calculated brutality that it continues to haunt the region’s history. A young heiress, Wai Shung Siu, was found strangled in a secluded wood, her honeymoon cut short by a … Read more

The hunt for a police killer that would grip the nation and become the largest manhunt in British history reached its violent conclusion on a rain-soaked Sunday morning, when a hail of police gunfire ended the life of a man the press had dubbed the “Phantom of the Forest.” The 18-day rampage of Barry Prudom, … Read more

The final week of January 1990 was a stormy one around the world. Torrential rain and 100-mile-an-hour winds battered Europe, while across the Atlantic, Canada faced sub-zero temperatures and relentless blizzards. But the weather wasn’t Canada’s only problem. Amid the snow and ice, police were in the middle of the biggest manhunt the country had … Read more

The village of Clavering, in the flat and frozen county of Essex, England, had buried its dead without question for centuries, but in the winter of 1850, the bodies beneath the churchyard clay refused to stay buried in peace, and when the ground gave up its secrets, they revealed a pattern of domestic murder so … Read more