Cold Case UK: Buried in Silence

In this episode of Case UK: Buried in Silence, we investigate the haunting disappearance of Mary Flanagan, Scotland Yard’s longest-running missing persons case. On 31 December 1959, Mary left her family home in West Ham claiming she was heading to a New Year’s Eve work party at the Tate & Lyle refinery in Silvertown. But she never arrived. What investigators uncovered next revealed a hidden do...

June 27, 1946. Twelve-year-old Muriel Drinkwater was walking home from school through woodland near Penllergaer, South Wales. Her mother watched her enter the trees. She never came out. The following day, her body was found. She had been raped, bludgeoned, and shot twice in the chest with a World War I-era Colt .45. July 7, 1946. Eleven-year-old Sheila Martin was playing on a swing behind her home...

On the morning of 6 June 1991, Penny Bell left her home in Buckinghamshire in her blue Jaguar XJS. She told the builders she was late for a 9:50 appointment. The appointment was not in her diary. At 10:20, her car was spotted on Greenford Road, moving at 10 miles per hour with the hazard lights on. A lorry driver saw a man in the passenger seat. He appeared to be controlling the steering. Through...

On 7 July 1946, eleven-year-old Sheila Martin was last seen playing on a swing behind her home in Fawkham Green, Kent. Her body was found in the woods before midnight. She had been strangled with her own hair ribbon. The coroner called it a diabolical assault. Nobody was ever charged. Kent Police interviewed every man, woman, and child within a three-mile radius. Thousands of motorcycle racing spe...

The question “Who put Bella in the Wych Elm?” remains one of the most chilling and enduring mysteries in British criminal history. Part murder case, part urban legend, part wartime riddle, it has fascinated investigators, writers, and true crime audiences for more than 80 years. At the heart of the mystery is the discovery of a woman’s skeletal remains hidden inside a hollow wych elm tree in Hagle...

In this episode of Case UK: Buried in Silence , we examine the harrowing case of Timothy Evans , a Welsh lorry driver wrongfully convicted and executed for the murders of his wife, Beryl Evans , and their baby daughter, Geraldine , at 10 Rillington Place in Notting Hill, London. What began as a tragic domestic case soon exposed one of the most disturbing miscarriages of justice in British history....