Tuesday 12 March 1963 had been just another day at his St Owen Street, Hereford surgery for respected 41 year old Doctor Michael Wyndham Parker, until just before 7.00pm he was brutally stabbed in the chest and left for dead on the floor of his own surgery. Parker’s surgery was part of a three man... Read More
In 1953 Diana Dors was on the verge of becoming the most well known film star in Britain. Married to Denis Hamilton Gittins she was no stranger to publicity but on Wednesday 22 July she found herself getting rather more publicity than she would have liked. Read More
On Friday 22 May 1953 in the small Leicestershire village of Blaby three young boys were playing in Blue Banks Wood, a favourite area for the local kids, when they heard a series of piercing screams. Rushing to investigate the trio made a terrible discovery – a man pulling at the head of what they... Read More
It all started typically enough, pretty teacher Helen Hooper, 31 and married with three children, went missing on St Valentines Day 1976. Hooper who lived in an isolated bungalow in Broken Green in Standon, Hertfordshire was married to Walter Hooper, who at 63 was more than twice her age. She was also having an affair... Read More