Elizabeth Short, known posthumously as the Black Dahlia, was an American woman found murdered in the Leimert Park neighborhood of Los Angeles, California, on January 15, 1947.

Susannah Lamplugh was a British estate agent reported missing on 28 July 1986. She was officially declared dead, presumed murdered, in 1993. The last clue to Lamplugh's whereabouts was an appointment to show a house to someone she called Mr Kipper.

On June 14, 2015, sheriff's deputies in Greene County, Missouri, United States, found the body of Clauddine "Dee Dee" Blanchard face down in the bedroom of her house just outside Springfield, lying on the bed in a pool of blood from stab wounds inflicted several days earlier.

In the early hours of June 6th, 1992, three women vanished from the Springfield, Missouri, home where two of them lived. The missing women were Sherill Levitt, the homeowner, her 19 year old daughter Suzy Streeter, and Suzy’s friend, 18 year old Stacy McCall.

Alissa Turney was an American 17-year-old girl who was last seen in the Phoenix, Arizona area on May 17, 2001.

19-year old Jay Slater, a British tourist disappeared from the Masca on the Spanish island of Tenerife on 17 June 2024. He had visited Masca overnight and at 8am he asked a stranger when the next bus to Los Cristianos was due and when told it was 10am, Slater walked off into the mountainous terrain some 20 miles (and potentially 11 hours walk) from his apartment where he was staying.

In April 1994, Anthea Bradshaw married her high school sweetheart in a beautiful Adelaide wedding. 96 days later, she was found lifeless in a pool of blood, half a world away from home, in Brunei, South East Asia.

Jane Nartare Beaumont, Arnna Kathleen Beaumont and Grant Ellis Beaumont, collectively referred to in the media as the Beaumont children, were three Australian siblings who disappeared from Glenelg Beach near Adelaide, South Australia, on 26 January 1966 in a suspected abduction and murder.