Unsolved English murders
In the United Kingdom, there are a number of unsolved murders. In the past thirty years numerous children have disappeared or been found dead, with no known suspects for the deaths:
- Christine Markham, 9, missing from Scunthorpe 1973
- Lesley Molseed, 11, disappeared in 1975 within a few minutes, from a country lane in Delamere Road, Rochdale, and her body was found three days later on open moorland above the A672 Oldham to Halifax Road in Ripponden, West Yorkshire.
- Genette Tate, 13, missing from Aylesbeare, in Devon, on August 19, 1978
- Sean McGaun, 15, murdered on April 7, 1979
- Suzanne Lawrence, missing in Essex, 1979
- Martin Allen, 15, vanished from central London on November 5, 1979
- Marion Crofts, 14, murdered at Fleet, in Hampshire, on June 9, 1981
- Vishal Mehrota, 8, murdered in Putney, West London, on July 29, 1981
- Jason Swift, 14, murdered in Hackney, East London, on July 11, 1983
- Imran Vohra, 9, killed the same afternoon at Preston, in Lancashire
- Colette Aram, 16, murdered at Keyworth, in Nottinghamshire, on October 30, 1983
- Lynda Mann, 15, killed in Narborough, Leicestershire, on November 21, 1983
- Chris Laverack, 9, murdered in Hull on March 9, 1984
- Mark Tildesley, 7, vanished from Workingham, Berkshire, on June 1, 1984
- Patsy Morris, 14, missing in 1990
- Barry Lewis, 6, murdered in Walworth, South London, on September 15, 1984
- Marion Crofts 1990
- Lisa Hession 1990
In all these cases no suspect has been positively identified, and each investigation has now stalled.