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Crime victims who haven't left your mind?

104 replies

OneUmberJoker · 15/11/2025 17:26

James Bulger
Sarah Payne
Just to name two

OP posts:
RuncibleSpoons · 15/11/2025 18:01

Are you a bot, OP?

Every single one of your posts is like this one and you never return. 🤨

TangoWhiskeyAlphaTango1 · 15/11/2025 18:01

Star Hobson was horrific especially as the family had so many concerns that went ignored.

Samantha and Jasmin Bisset who should never have died if the police had done their jobs properly.

Also the murder of April Jones was truly horrific.

weegiemum · 15/11/2025 18:01

I can’t remember her last name but when I was about 12 a girl of the same age called Susan was abducted and murdered by a serial killer quite close to where I lived. He also killed a wee girl from Edinburgh.

i am also a Susan, rode my bike to my friends houses and was the same age. Its never left me. Thank goodness they caught the bastard who did it.

BaronessMachiavelli · 15/11/2025 18:03

BruisedNeckMeat · 15/11/2025 17:43

Arthur Labinjo-Hughes - the details
of his neglect and death were utterly horrific. The fact it happened during lockdowns when the people who could have spotted the signs were not there will never not make me furious.

Arthur, he absolutely broke my heart into pieces. I think about him often.

TheThingsYouDoForLurve · 15/11/2025 18:05

Claudia Laurence. Where can she possibly and how can there be no trace of her - her poor family.

Vera87 · 15/11/2025 18:07

The Russell murders.

TangoWhiskeyAlphaTango1 · 15/11/2025 18:07

Ones that stand in my mind most was the horrific crime committed by Damien Bendall - beyond words the depravity in this mans mind.

The Hunt family slaughtered in their own home - John and his surviving Daughter spoke out with dignity and courage like i have never seen after such a horrific loss they are never far from my mind.

The Uni students killed in Nottingham - my DC age and were also at Uni at the time. Just on a night out and they turn a corner and was met with the most brutal of end, the pain of the families faces will stay with me forever.

Davros · 15/11/2025 18:07

Lesley Whittle
Sandra Rivett
Sara Sharif

ItsameLuigi · 15/11/2025 18:28

Jon Bennet Ramsey

ItsameLuigi · 15/11/2025 18:28

Oh and Daniel pelka

Linnytwinny · 15/11/2025 18:31

HearMeOutt · 15/11/2025 17:47

Milly Dowler. I read her sister’s book a while back and it was the most harrowing thing I’ve ever read. For context I’ve worked in crime for a decade and it was still extremely upsetting. The family went through so much that was never made public knowledge. I often think of her sister and hope she’s doing well (and her parents).

I read the book too.

Milly Dowler's case was just a shocker in how evil the man was.

His description of what happened is in the book. How someone could be that evil to a teenager is shocking.

The sister and mother also had to get long term ptsd treatment

JSMill · 15/11/2025 18:34

weegiemum · 15/11/2025 18:01

I can’t remember her last name but when I was about 12 a girl of the same age called Susan was abducted and murdered by a serial killer quite close to where I lived. He also killed a wee girl from Edinburgh.

i am also a Susan, rode my bike to my friends houses and was the same age. Its never left me. Thank goodness they caught the bastard who did it.

Yes I remember that. I must be a similar age to you and lived in a quiet Scottish village so that case really scared me. The little girl in Edinburgh was Caroline Hogg.
Another name I will never forget is Rachel Nickell, who was murdered in front of her young son, I think in Wimbledon common. She was such a beautiful woman and clearly a loving mother. I think her partner ended up moving abroad with her son for a fresh start.

CoralPombear · 15/11/2025 18:39

Sebastian Kalinowski
Andrew Gosden.

I think having teenage boys myself has driven home that even as they start growing up and the rest of the world stops seeing it, how precious and vulnerable they still are.

SassyPearlEagle · 15/11/2025 18:39

Bernadette Walker. The evil stepdad died without saying where her body was.

I can't believe her mum Sarah Walker got such a light sentence, is now free again, and not saying where her daughter's body is. How the other relatives can support her is beyond me!

Colinthedaxi · 15/11/2025 18:51

Junko Furuta

Edwinstarrihavefaithinyou · 15/11/2025 19:00

weegiemum · 15/11/2025 18:01

I can’t remember her last name but when I was about 12 a girl of the same age called Susan was abducted and murdered by a serial killer quite close to where I lived. He also killed a wee girl from Edinburgh.

i am also a Susan, rode my bike to my friends houses and was the same age. Its never left me. Thank goodness they caught the bastard who did it.

Hogg was her surname if irc.
Wasn't there two wee girls that disappeared in quick succession .
Horrific

Edwinstarrihavefaithinyou · 15/11/2025 19:01

Saw pp Caroline Hogg.

Linnytwinny · 15/11/2025 19:02

Ashling Murphy.

Humans can be very cruel

sciaticafanatica · 15/11/2025 19:03

Joe Geeling
it was a local crime and truly horrific

Edwinstarrihavefaithinyou · 15/11/2025 19:04

My home city a girl was abducted from the city centre and abused and tortured.
She was found alive I won't name her as she may still be alive this happened 50 years ago.

HelpMebeok · 15/11/2025 19:05

It's the families who always stick in my mind. I can't imagine knowing your child was murdered and carrying on

ShieldsStation · 15/11/2025 19:10

Too many to count including some people I have known but I don’t want to list them as it’s outing but one I will mention is the murder of 15 year old Kriss Donald which was utterly barbaric. It appears to have received very little coverage elsewhere in the UK and I’ve never understood why.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MurderofKrissDonald

I was working literally around the corner while he was being abducted, didn’t know a thing about it at the time and it made me realise all of the terrible things that are happening all around us, in ordinary homes and places while most of us are going about our mundane lives and business and to never take that mundanity for granted. I walked by his memorial most days for years and I still often think of him.

MissKittyFantastico84 · 15/11/2025 19:11

For me it’s Joanna Yeates. I was the same age as her, living with my boyfriend (now husband) at the time, like her.

I remember her case so clearly, and I also remember how angry I felt when details from the killer’s defence came out of court. How he was claiming this young woman had invited him round while home alone, had wanted him to do what he did but, the classic, how it had all got out of hand. I was so relieved when the court and jury saw through all his bullshit, but I felt so angry and sad that a man had just decided he had the right to fulfill his sick fantasy and take the precious life of a woman who had her whole life ahead of her. Radicalised me more than a bit, I think.

PInkyStarfish · 15/11/2025 19:14

Keith Bennett. Still out on the moor and needs to be found and buried with or near to his mother.

Crime victims who haven't left your mind?
Hoppinggreen · 15/11/2025 19:20

That poor young woman who was gang raped in Cyprus by Israeli men whose wealthy families paid for it to all go away.