When Missing Turns to Murder

In December 1988, 22-year-old Lorraine Benson arrived at Raynes Park tube station after going to a work Christmas party. Shed arranged to meet her friend Peter, but he wasnt there as planned. Peter was due to move to Australia the following day. Lorraine called Peters mother to ask where he was, and his mother told her that he wasnt back from meeting friends yet.

On June 5, 1998, 11 year- old Wesley waved goodbye to his mother Liz and rode off on his bike to go to the local shop to get some sweets, he was a popular lad and well-liked by the community. Liz reported him missing to the police when he failed to return home and it was getting dark.

School girl, Danielle Jones, aged 15, was last seen on the morning of June 18th, 2001 near her home in East Tilbury, Essex. Like hundreds of thousands of other children that day, she was on her way to catch the school bus. But Danielle never got on the bus and didnt arrive at St Cleres School.

17-year-old Jayden Parkinson met Ben Blakley when she was just 15 years old through her friendship with Bens younger brother. Jayden and Ben started a relationship when she was just 16. She had been living with her mother Sam but moved to a hostel which provided emergency 24-hour accommodation for 20 homeless young people, aged 16-25.

Janet Muller was a bright and fun loving 21-year-old German exchange student studying at Brighton University. She had no previous history of mental illness but became unwell ahead of her final exams, and in March 2015, she was admitted to Mill View hospital in Hove after being found by the police at a bus stop in her night clothes.

Mihrican ("Jan") Mustafa, a 37-year-old Turkish-Brit mother disappears.

Carol Taggart, a mother in Fife, Scotland

Surjit Athwal returns to the house where her family had arranged her murder, then disappears.

Louise Smith, after a childhood in and out of foster care, turns 16 and is only marginally supported by the government in halfway houses. Shady characters there draw her into a group of sociopaths who victimize her before causing her disappearance.

Adam Alexander

Investigators scour CCTV footage in their search for a Buckinghamshire student last seen returning home in a taxi after celebrating final exams.

After a week passes with no word from a Manchester woman to her family, a burnt body is discovered in an obviously staged, smoke-filled crime scene.

A blatant lie alerts a womans family that the jet-setting, controlling boyfriend who troubles them is deceiving them about her whereabouts.

Authorities discover that the disappearance and murder of an Ipswich woman is linked to another local killing, and to a hard-drinking social group.

The Sikh community in London reels at the bizarre murder of a prominent TV producer whose body is discovered bound in the trunk of a burning car.