Elizabeth MelvilleWhere are you Renee MacRae? Is Scotland’s Longest Missing Person Case Finally About to be Solved?I t was raining stair rods, as they say in Scotland, when Renee MacRae buckled her youngest son Andrew into her distinctive blue BMW. A…Apr 25, 2020Apr 25, 2020
Elizabeth MelvilleSomething Wicked This Way ComesWhen 20 year old Carole Compton stepped off the plane in Rome, she must have thought the world lay at her feet.Mar 26, 2020Mar 26, 2020
Elizabeth MelvilleThe Ecchinswell DollHer body was found on the edge of Watership Down close to the pretty village of Ecchinswell. Nicknamed ‘the Ecchinswell Doll’ because of…Mar 15, 2020Mar 15, 2020
Elizabeth MelvilleThe Strange Death of Shani Warren: The Lady of the LakeDespite being discovered gagged and bound with ligature marks around her neck, a pathologist ruled the death of 26 year old Shani Warren a…Mar 12, 20201Mar 12, 20201
Elizabeth MelvilleThe Camden Town MurderOn the 11th September 1907 a young woman, Emily Dimmock, was murdered. Her widely reported death laid bare the seedy side of London life…Mar 2, 2020Mar 2, 2020
Elizabeth MelvilleMurder in the FogWe call them pea-soupers, the thick insidious fogs that creep in from the sea and take us by surprise. The fog of December 1961 was no…Feb 23, 20201Feb 23, 20201
Elizabeth MelvilleThe Strange Death of Netta FornarioIn November of 1929, the naked body of a young woman was discovered on the windswept Scottish isle of Iona. She lay on a cross roughly…Feb 20, 2020Feb 20, 2020
Elizabeth MelvilleThe Father Christmas MurderOn a cold January night in 1925 an eleven year old child, Nellie Clarke, left home in Rock Ferry, England, to run a short errand for her…Feb 16, 2020Feb 16, 2020
Elizabeth MelvilleThe Mansion House MysteryWhen the body of a frail old woman was found battered at the bottom of her mansion stairs in Edwardian Scotland, she was depicted in the…Feb 4, 20202Feb 4, 20202
Elizabeth MelvilleFlorence Maybrick: An American Murder in Victorian England?When Southern Belle, Florence Chandler, boarded a New York steamer bound for England, she must have believed the world was at her feet…Jan 30, 20201Jan 30, 20201