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WHEN JonBenét Ramsey was reported missing on St Stephen’s Day in 1996 it appeared the six-year-old had been kidnapped, thanks to a ransom note demanding €92,000.
But that afternoon the beauty pageant star’s body was found in a basement at her home in Boulder, Colorado.
She had been strangled and hit over the head. Suspicion fell upon her parents John and Patsy. They were the only people in the house along with their other child, Burke, and the note had been written on their pad.
But there was not enough evidence to prosecute.
Despite forensic tests in 2009 appearing to show evidence of DNA from a male on JonBenet’s body, all leads have been dead ends.
LOCKED HOUSE MYSTERY
ON January 20, 1931, Julia Wallace was found bludgeoned to death at the home she shared with husband William near Liverpool’s Anfield stadium.
But the house was locked tight from outside. The previous night, insurance agent William (52) had received a phone call from a mystery man who asked him to visit the next day. William did so but said he’d been given a false address – then found his wife’s body when he got home. There was no sign of a break-in so it was thought the killer had been let in by Julia. William was convicted of the killing then cleared. No-one else was arrested.
MOTORWAY MONSTER
THE deaths of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara
Mayo seven months apart in 1970 had striking similarities.
Secretary Jacqueline (18) and teacher Barbara (24) had been hitchhiking on separate occasions from London along the M1 when they were murdered, their bodies found dumped off rural roads.
Both had been sexually assaulted and strangled with a length of flex. Despite cops carrying out 10,000 interviews, the culprit was not found.
THE BLACK DAHLIA
ON January 15, 1947, the body of aspiring actress Elizabeth Short (22) was found in LA. It had been severed at the waist, mutilated, drained of blood and a joker smile carved into her face.
Police thought someone with medical training was involved and items related to Elizabeth – who was dubbed The Black Dahlia after a recent noir flick – were even sent to a newspaper by someone claiming to be the killer. Several people confessed but were released due to lack of evidence, and police never found the culprit.
The case features in the 2006 movie The Black Dahlia, starring Scarlett Johansson.
SHOT ON HIS DOORSTEP
BANKER Alistair Wilson (30) was murdered on his doorstep in Nairn, Scotland, on November 28, 2004.
At 7pm Wilson’s wife Veronica answered the doorbell to find a stranger there, who asked for her husband by name.
Wilson went to speak to the man and was handed a blue envelope with the word “Paul” on it. He then went inside briefly before returning to the door for a second time when the gunman pulled the trigger.
There initially appeared to be no motive for the murder – but in April last year, Scottish cops revealed his involvement in a local planning dispute may have been a factor.
DEEP FREEZE MURDER
WHEN Anne Noblett’s body was found, a month after she vanished, it was frozen solid.
The shy 17-year-old’s corpse was found in woodland near Whitwell, England, on January 31, 1958, five miles from where she was last seen alive after catching a bus on December 30.
She had been travelling to her home in Marshalls Heath when she went missing.
Police believe Anne’s body had been kept in a refrigerated storage unit. They said she had been strangled and probably sexually assaulted.
But despite interviewing 2,000 people and searching all refrigeration units within a 30-mile radius, including farm freezers and ice cream vans, police couldn’t solve the case.