cold cases

The murder of six-year-old JonBenét Ramsey remains one of the most famous and heavily debated unsolved cases in American true crime. On 26 December 1996, JonBenét was reported missing from her family's home in Boulder, Colorado, after a ransom note was discovered inside the house. Later that...

Some missing person cases stay with you long after you first hear about them. Even years later, you might find yourself searching their name occasionally to see whether there has finally been a breakthrough. It could be a case you've followed from the beginning, one that happened close to where...

One of the most frustrating things about unsolved cases is when there seems to be one particular piece of evidence that should have provided the answer, but somehow it never did. It might be CCTV footage that doesn't quite show enough, DNA that has never produced a match, an unidentified...

There are so many unsolved cases where families have waited years, or even decades, for answers. Some have become incredibly well known, while others receive very little attention despite still having unanswered questions. If you could choose just one unsolved case to finally have all the...

On 6 June 1991, 43-year-old Penny Bell was found murdered inside her car at the Gurnell Leisure Centre car park in Greenford, west London. She had suffered numerous stab wounds, and despite an extensive police investigation, her killer has never been identified. The case became one of Britain's...