Nightmare in Suburbia

When 15-year-old Jenna Baldwin went missing, her parents and the police thought she'd run away.

Durham couple George and Christina Button lived a happy life, but Christina was secretly mounting up debts.

29-year-old Sharon Malone was mother to two young sons and had just begun training to be a teacher when she suddenly disappeared. Her husband Garry didn’t report her missing immediately and then told police and her family that she had run off with a new mystery boyfriend to escape a serious debt. There was no evidence to suggest otherwise, until the police found her abandoned car a month later. When Garry suddenly did a midnight flit to Spain with his two young boys, the police began to search for Sharon’s body.

In January 2000, two men walking down a lane in Sheffield found a holdall and were horrified to discover it contained the grizzly remains of a man’s body. It was so decomposed that South Yorkshire Police’s forensics team were unable to discover its identity.

21-year-old Jane was abducted from a supermarket car park when she tried to help a stranger. Her abductor, Robert English, drove her blindfolded to a caravan in the countryside and subjected her to a number of sexual assaults. Finally allowed free, Jane amazingly recalled enough detail for the police to track down the caravan and ultimately her abductor.

Matthew Pyke and his girlfriend Joanna ran an internet forum site together. One of the users known only as David from Germany or Eagle_the_Lightening became obsessed with Joanna and started making regular unannounced visits to their home. No one could have predicted that his jealousy would escalate into the murder of Matthew. With barely any details to identify David or locate him, the Police were then faced with the task of tracking him down.

On 5 March 2002, Kim Newson was babysitting at her friend’s house in Lincoln. Just after 2am, the pregnant 18-year-old walked the short distance home to her flat. She was never seen alive again. During police inquiries officers visited Stephen Hughes who lived in the flat below Kim’s; he claimed to have heard her return home that night with a friend. When his flat was later searched in connection with a burglary police found Kim’s birth certificate, with what appeared to be a bloody footprint on it. Further examinations by the forensic team revealed the horrific truth about what had happened to Kim in Hughes’ flat.