Overview
- Reach plc and regional newsrooms compiled the database from Freedom of Information returns to every UK police force and extensive archive research.
- The publicly searchable tool supports the special publication Britain’s 1,000 Unsolved Murders Vol II: Midnight Stalkers and spans cases from the pre-war period to the last decade.
- Research highlights two wartime Cardiff stranglings in 1943 that criminologist Professor David Wilson says could be connected, a link not made at the time.
- South Wales Police states historic homicides sit with its Major Crime Review Unit and can be re-investigated if new information arises or forensic advances offer opportunities.
- Regional coverage spotlights local cases across London, the North East, Merseyside, Yorkshire, and Greater Manchester, illustrating both wartime challenges and later unresolved killings.