First Crime story you remember?

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I would say the first one I remember was Damilola Taylor briefly , I was about 7 and remember seeing it on the news.

Locherbie but very vaguely
James Bulger
The Cromwell street murders

Vicky Hamilton from Bathgate I think. Got the bus at falkirk bus station and went missing. I also remember seeing a lot of posters for Caroline hogg and Susan maxwell in motorway service stations so they all stick in my mind.

Louise Woodward Case. I remember seeing it every day on GMTV. We used to talk about it at school but we were only six at the time so I doubt we understood what was going on but I did always worry I would shake a baby to death while playing with it.

Susan Maxwell & the Yorkshire Ripper

James Bulger I was 6 and remember going to lay flowers for him with my Mum. So heartbreaking

Sarah Harper - I was her age and had been in the shop she had gone to on the same day. Chilling.

Genette Tate. I was at primary school in Cornwall and it was a very big story in the South West. Every few months now I drive past a turning to her village, and whenever I see the signpost I think of her.

Leah Betts and dunblane.

Caroline Hogg. I was five years old and saw her picture in the newspaper.

Tracey Turner murder. I was very young and couldn't understand why someone would be a prostitute at a trucking stop. I was very naive obviously.

Susan Maxwell.

We were on holiday in Cornwall. I'll never forget my burly Dad and uncle sat in deck chairs on the beach with tears steaming down their faces, as they read in the paper about her poor parents putting her teddy bear in her coffin

Stranger danger became real......

For me it was Christine Derby killed and found at Cannock Chase. We went on holiday there shortly after.
Mum was a bit about going she had a gaggle of little girls with her and none of us listened much and ran about all over playing hide and seek in the tall ferns in the woods.

Suzy Lamplugh

Dunblane, I specifically remember where I was sat in my junior school (I was yr5) classroom when we were talking about what we would have done. I'm fairly sure I even remember who was sat next to me.

Aberfan. My mother crying. I was two, but I remember it.

Madeline McCann. I remember being sat at my grans watching the news after it had happened. I would have been 11.

I vaguely also remember 9/11 but I was at school at the time and can temper my mum being late to pick us up because she was watching the news fixated

Fred West and James Bulger

Lockerbie & Suzy Lamplugh for me.

I was also alive and remember James Bulger but didn't know very much about it at the time. I've always avoided reading anything at all about it as I understand that it's absolutely unbearable and so very sad.

The disappearance of Mark Tildersley at a funfair in the next big town to where I lived as a child, I wondered about it frequently over the years and googled it a few years back as it occurred to me there might have been an update, there was, it was unbelievably horrific and definitely worse than I even imagined, suffice to say he was murdered, so so sad

Carl Bridgewater. Similar age to me. If I ever see a school photo of him now on the t.v., it touches me that he didn't get to grow up or grow old.

Suzy Lamplugh. Again, similar age and circumstances to me. I can look back at old photos of me from then and laugh. Those photos of her are among the last one ever taken.

Susan maxwell and Caroline Hogg for me. My dad was a police man and he used to take me into the police office when he was exercising and I would see their missing posters and that stayed with me. And then, a few short years later Vicky Hamilton’s picture joined them.

Suzy Lamplugh. She was an estate agent who went missing in 1986 after an appointment to show a house to a man who called himself Mr Kipper.

Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman, who were the same age as me.

Gosh, it is hard to concieve that Holly and Jessica would be women now, perhaps mothers

Christine Derby killed and found at Cannock Chase.

Me too. It was all over the local papers, I could see the Chase in the distance from my bedroom window.