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Gone But Not Forgotten: They say there's no such thing as the perfect murder, but practically every day of the year someone is killed and their killer remains at large. This section of the archive is dedicated to the victims of the UK's unsolved murders of the 20th century... Gone But Not Forgotten: May Unknown date in May 1992 Yvonne Fitt – Otley Did prostitute Yvonne Fitt ever see the man who stabbed her to death on an unknown day in May, 1992? The question is prompted because nine years later, in 2001, the body of another murdered woman was ... more » May 2nd 1986 2/5/1986 Sandra Court – Bournemouth If you were in the Lansdowne suburb of Bournemouth in the early hours of Saturday morning, May 3rd, 1986, you may have seen a drunken woman walking the pavements barefooted. She was Sandra Court, 27, ... more » May 3rd 1948 3/5/1948 Rex Farran – Codsall A parcel sent by post to his parents’ home in Codsall, Wolverhampton, on Monday, May 3rd, 1948, intrigued Rex Farran. It was addressed to “R. Farran,” so he opened it. Inside was an omnibus edition of... more » May 4th 1921 4/5/1921 Robert Johnston – Glasgow A Wild West-style shoot-out occurred in the centre of Glasgow on Tuesday, May 4th, 1921, when a police convoy, taking an IRA prisoner on the first stage of his journey back to Ireland for trial, was a... more » May 5th 1956 5/5/1956 Margaret and Mary Ormesher – Ormskirk Nothing seems easier prey to some murderers than a sweetshop. In 1956 the one in Church Street, Ormskirk, was run by two unmarried sisters, Margaret and Mary Ormesher, aged 69 and 66. On Saturday even... more » May 5th 1912 5/5/1912 Maud Mills – Walsall Shot four times, including twice in the head, Mrs. Maud Mills, 36, remarkably lived for six days before she died in hospital. For the police and those who knew her, they were a baffling six days. Fro... more » May 6th 1964 6/5/1964 Anne Dunwell – Maltby “I’ll tell the police about you,” a 14-year-old girl told a motorist who offered her 10 shillings to go with him in his car in Maltby, Yorkshire. The motorist drove off rapidly. Six days later, on Wed... more » May 7th 1961 7/5/1961 Dr. Richard Castillo – London Neighbours heard the murder, heard the victim calling out for help. As one of them rushed to help, he found the victim, Dr. Richard Castillo, falling to the ground by the entrance to 3 Albert Bridge, ... more » May 9th 1919 9/5/1919 Ellen “Nellie” Rault – Bedford The body of Nellie Rault, a WAAC stationed in Bedford, seemed to tell its own horrific story of her last moments on earth. It appeared she had died while on her knees, probably begging for her life. ... more » May 9th 1936 9/5/1936 Constance May Hind – London Prostitution looms large in the list of careers of murder victims. Theirs is indeed a high-wire act, as Constance Hind, 24, must have known. On Saturday, May 9th, 1936, she was last seen walking to he... more » May 9th 1954 9/5/1954 Violet McGrath – London When police found the body, lying beside it was a magazine, coincidentally open at a page with an article on fingerprints. That didn’t help the investigators, though, because the killer of Mrs. Violet... more » May 17th 1959 17/5/1959 Kilso Cochrane – London “Hey, Jim Crow, let’s have your money!” a group of white yobs yelled at West Indian Kilso Cochrane, a carpenter who, having injured his thumb, was on his way to hospital. The yobs surrounded Cochrane ... more » May 19th 1921 19/5/1921 Horace McNeil – London A group of IRA men knocked on the door of a house in Bloemfontein Road, Shepherd’s Bush, London, and announced they were looking for a man who was a serving policeman in Ireland. They had come to kill... more » May 19th 1942 19/5/1942 Agnes Stafford – London London in the wartime blackout was a haven for prostitutes. They could be picked up easily in the dark – unfortunately, they could just as easily be killed in the dark. The man who murdered Agnes Staf... more » May 21st 1994 21/5/1994 Dawn Shields – Sheffield Another prostitute, this time from Sheffield’s red light district, Dawn Shields, 19, was abducted from her usual pitch, stripped, strangled and dumped in a shallow grave at Mam Tor in Derbyshire’s Pea... more » May 24th 1938 24/5/1938 Thomas Barnwell – London A fight in Hyde Park in May, 1938, proved fatal for Thomas Barnwell, a 26-year-old cinema worker and ex-Irish Guardsman. A friend who was with Barnwell said that as they were walking across the park ... more » May 24th 1957 24/5/1957 Countess Teresa Lubinska – London They called her the Angel of Ravensbruck – the notorious concentration camp where her outstanding courage and the efforts she made to comfort her fellow prisoners became a legend. Countess Teresa Lubi... more » May 24th 1966 24/5/1966 Ernest Isaacs – London A gangster was lying in wait for professional criminal Ernest Isaacs, 42, when he arrived at his flat at Penn Street, Shoreditch, London, on Tuesday, May 24th, 1966. The gangster fired four times and ... more » May 25th 1989 25/5/1989 Marie Burke – London In the late 1980s Yardie criminals were running a big money racket by buying American visas at $6,000 a time. Someone at the American Embassy in London must have been involved, and that someone may ha... more » May 26th 1938 26/5/1938 Phyllis May Spiers – Folkestone A client of prostitute Phyllis Spiers, 22, suddenly found himself inexorably mixed up with her murder when her body was found in a Folkestone wood on Thursday, May 26th, 1938. He was a labourer who ad... more » May 29th 1946 29/5/1946 Parrington Jackson – Bristol The film at the Bristol Odeon cinema on Wednesday, May 29th, 1946, was The Light That Failed, and the evening show had just begun when a shot rang out through the auditorium. The shot came from the of... more » May 29th 1930 29/5/1930 Charles Clarke – London After a violent brawl fuelled by alcohol on the SS Steel Age, docked at the Royal Albert Docks in North Woolwich, London, American sailor Charles Clarke, 59, crawled into his bed to nurse his injuries... more » May 30th 1908 30/5/1908 Marie Bailes – London Overcome by curiosity, a lavatory attendant in St. George’s Road, Islington, London, opened a brown paper parcel which, he claimed, had been left on the floor by “a nervous man” who ran off. Inside th... more » May 30th 1914 30/5/1914 David Ombler – Hull “Hull was a dangerous place to live in these years,” says a compendium of Yorkshire crime. “These years” were the time of the Great War, and the murder of David Ombler, a market trader and brother of ... more » May 30th 1934 30/5/1934 An unknown woman – Brighton Her torso was found stuffed into a trunk deposited at the left luggage office at Brighton railway station. Next day her legs were found in a suitcase at King’s Cross station. She was in her early 30s,... more » May 30th 1901 30/5/1901 Annie Austin – London At the dawn of the 20th century there was no more notorious doss house region in London than that at Dorset Street, Spitalfields, haunt of Jack the Ripper and a hive of prostitutes. Here lived Annie A... more » May 31st 1994 31/5/1994 Kenneth and May Murrells – Hillingdon Anxious that something may have happened to his mother, Shane Mills and his aunt Gay Cadden broke into his parents’ home in Weymouth Avenue, Hillingdon, and found her dead from multiple stab wounds. ... more »
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