| Victim | Convicted | Location | Disappeared | Conviction date | Description |
| William Harrison | John, Richard and Joan Perry | Chipping Campden, England | August 16, 1660 | Spring 1661 | A wealthy 70-year-old man last seen walking to Charingworth. After his hat, coat and neckband were found on the side of the road with a sharp cut and sprinkled in blood, his servant John Perry claimed that Perry's own brother and mother had murdered Harrison to rob him, and subsequently dumped the body in a pond. The pond was drained but no body was found. The Perrys then alternated between pleading guilt and innocence, until they were all found guilty and hanged. However, Harrison reappeared in 1662, claiming to have been abducted by Barbary pirates. It has been said that this case was the source of a mistaken view that without a body there could be no trial for murder in England. |
| William Moore | William Kidd | Indian Ocean | October 30, 1697 | May 23, 1701 | Privateer's gunner murdered at sea after making a disrespectful remark to Kidd, his captain. |
| John Davidson | Thomas Davidson | Hanwell, London, England | December 1933 | September 1934 | The eight-year-old son of the convict, who confessed to drowning him and burning his body on a rubbish tip. Davidson later changed his mind and claimed that he had merely found his body in the canal, and maintained this until his death. |
| Diana Rowden, Vera Leigh, Andrée Borrel, Sonia Olschanezky | Fritz Hartjenstein, Werner Rohde, Peter Straub, Emil Brüttel, Magnus Wochner, Franz Berg | Vosges Mountains, Nazi Germany | July – August 1944 | June 1, 1946 | Four SOE agents murdered and cremated at Natzweiler-Struthof concentration camp during the Second World War. Three accused were acquitted at trial while the others were variously sentenced to death or imprisonment. |
| Gay Gibson | James Camb | Atlantic Ocean, west coast of Africa | October 18, 1947 | March 22, 1948 | An actress who was on an ocean liner, the MV Durban Castle, when her dead body was pushed through the porthole of her cabin. According to James Camb, the man convicted of killing her, she died during consensual sex and in a panic he pushed her body through the porthole. He always denied killing her. |
| William, Donald and Amy McSwann; Archibald and Rosalie Henderson; Olive Durand-Deacon | John George Haigh | London | September 9, 1944 – February 19, 1949 | August 10, 1949 | Victims of con artist and serial killer John George Haigh, who dissolved the bodies in acid under the belief that he couldn't be prosecuted for murder without a corpse; the resulting liquified remains were disposed of in a manhole. There was ample documentary evidence tying him to his victims, however, and a search found remains of human fat, three gallstones and a couple of dentures in the vat he had used to dissolve the body of his last victim. |
| Stanislaw Sykut | Michail Onufrejczyk | Llandeilo, Wales | December 14, 1953 | August 1954 | Partner of the convict in the management of a farm rehabilitated by the Polish Resettlement Corps after World War II. Onufrejczyk, who had been previously denounced by Sykut for violence and was about to lose the farm as a result of legal action, offered wildly varying stories to explain his partner's sudden disappearance. He was convicted largely because of the finding of over 2000 blood stains in the passage leading from the farm's kitchen to the backyard, which Onufrejczyk claimed to be from rabbits he had skinned, but which were confirmed by tests to be human blood. Police believed that Onufrejczyk dismembered Sykut's body in the kitchen and fed the parts to the pigs. The ruling was cited as a precedent in later murder without a body cases in England and Wales. |
| Malika Maria de Fernandez | Peter Reyn-Bardt | Wilmslow, England | June 1961 | December 1983 | The estranged wife of the convict. When the bog body later known as the Lindow Woman was found in a bog behind his home in 1983, police questioned Reyn-Bardt, whose wife had been missing for over two decades. Reyn-Bardt, also believing that the partial body was that of his wife, admitted to have murdered her when she blackmailed him under threat of revealing his homosexuality. Afterward, he dismembered the body and buried the pieces in a trench leading to the bog. Carbon 14 dating later showed that the body was nearly 1,800 years old. While Malika's own body was not found, the detailed confession was enough to pronounce her husband guilty. |
| John Smith | William Taylor Thorburn | Cardiff, Wales | June 17, 1964 | May 4, 1966 | Thorburn was convicted of the killing of 52-year-old John Smith after pleading guilty and stating that he had killed him for having an affair with his wife. Thorburn claimed he threw the body into the River Taff but it was never found. |
| Jack McVitie | Reggie Kray, Charlie Kray, Freddie Foreman, Cornelius Whitehead, Ronald Bender, Christopher and Tony Lambrianou | Stoke Newington, England | October 29, 1967 | March 4, 1969 | Gangster working for the infamous Kray twins, Ronnie and Reggie. After failing to murder the Krays' business manager Leslie Payne, McVitie was stabbed to death by Reggie Kray. His body was disposed of in the English Channel. Eyewitness testimony from some of those present during the murder led to the convictions of Reggie Kray and several accomplices. |
| Muriel McKay | Nizamodeen and Arthur Hosein | London | December 29, 1969 | October 6, 1970 | The wife of Alick McKay, deputy of Rupert Murdoch, who was abducted from her home in Wimbledon. It is believed that the Hoseins intended to abduct Murdoch's wife Anna Murdoch and hold her for ransom, but that they mistook McKay for her after she used Murdoch's car to buy groceries. After several failed attempts to ransom her to McKay's family, the Hoseins were arrested and convicted to life in prison for her murder despite no trace of her being ever found. |
| Mary Yafi | Ali Abdullah Saleh Yafi | Newport, Wales | September 1, 1971 | 1972 | Mary Yafi was killed by her husband who was quickly convicted of her killing despite her body having not been found. |
| Michelle Kirkwood | Stephen Michael Marley | Atlantic Ocean | September 15, 1973 | December 12, 1973 | Marley was convicted of killing 15-year-old stowaway Michelle Kirkwood on the ship SS Rotherham Castle, which was travelling between Cape Town and Southampton. Marley killed her and then threw her overboard. Kirkwood had been drunk and had broken a model ship of Marley's, and another stowaway then witnessed him tie a cord around her neck and kill her. The witness reported what she had seen to a motorist when the ship docked in Southampton and Marley was jailed despite Kirkwood's body being missing. |
| Patricia Allen, Jonathan Allen and Victoria Allen | Anthony John Allen | Salcombe, Devon | May 25–30, 1975 | December 16, 2002 | The victims were all members of the same family and the perpetrator was the father, who eradicated all records of their existence after they vanished in May 1975. The father had previously been convicted of bigamy and faking his own death, and never reported his family missing. His wife's VW car was later found in a car park in Salcombe with dingy oars protruding from the windows. |
| John Coughlan | Michael Topham | Glasgow, Scotland | 1975 | September 8, 1980 | 57-year-old family man Coughlan left home in 1975 and never returned. On 8 September 1980, a man was convicted of his murder after pleading guilty and admitting murdering him with a hammer and lead weight. He said that he killed Coughlan after he had caught him stealing paint from a building site they both worked at. Coughlan's body has never been found. |
| Terence Eve, Robert Brown, George and Terry Brett, Frederick Sherwood and Ronald Andrews | John Childs | London | November 1974 – October 1978 | December 4, 1979 | The six claimed victims of confessed hitman John Childs, who said he carried the killings on behalf of the other convicted, and that he dismembered and burned the bodies in his apartment's fireplace. No evidence ever existed besides Childs's testimony. Pinfold and MacKenney's convictions were overturned in 2003 after Childs was ruled to be a "pathological liar". |
| Terence Eve, Robert Brown, George and Terry Brett, Frederick Sherwood and Ronald Andrews | Terry Pinfold, Harry MacKenney | London | November 1974 – October 1978 | November 28, 1980 | Pinfold and Mackenney were jailed for life in November 1980 after being implicated in the murder by a former employee of the two men, Bruce Childs, who confessed to a series of contract killings. In 2003, the pair were cleared of the charges on appeal. |
| Renee and Andrew MacRae | William MacDowell | A9, south of Inverness, Scotland | November 12, 1976 | September 29, 2022 | Renee MacRae and her son disappeared on 12 November 1976. That night her car was found on fire in a lay-by south of Inverness but both Renee and Andrew were missing and never found. From the start the chief suspect was William MacDowell, a man who it was discovered was having an affair with MacRae. He was finally brought to trial and convicted in 2022 at the age of 80 and sentenced to a minimum of 30 years' imprisonment, but died only months later. |
| Robert Nairac | Liam Townson | Dromintee, Northern Ireland | May 14, 1977 | November 1977 | British Army Captain murdered by the IRA during the course of an undercover operation. It is believed that Nairac's body was buried in farmland in Ireland. |
| Robert Nairac | Gerard Fearon, Thomas Morgan | Dromintee, Northern Ireland | May 14, 1977 | 1978 | British Army Captain murdered by the IRA during the course of an undercover operation. It is believed that Nairac's body was buried in farmland in Ireland. |
| Frances Rundle | Arthur David Rundle | South Norwood, Surrey, England | October 1978 | 5 July 1980 | Arthur David Rundle was convicted of the murder of his wife. He said he killed her during a violent row at their home. Her remains were never discovered. |
| Monica Taylor | Peter Taylor | Boscombe, Bournemouth, England | April 3, 1982 | March 19, 1993 | Peter Taylor was convicted of murdering his wife Monica over a divorce settlement on the evidence of a man he had previously attempted to hire to kill his wife. He was also convicted of attempting to solicit an undercover police officer to murder his son-in-law. |
| Mark Tildesley | Leslie Bailey | Wokingham, England | June 1, 1984 | December 9, 1992 | A seven-year-old boy who disappeared while visiting a funfair in Wokingham, Berkshire. He was lured away from the fair and his bicycle was found chained to railings nearby. In 1990 it emerged that Mark had been abducted, drugged, tortured, raped and murdered by a London-based paedophile gang on the night he disappeared. |
| Carole Packman | Russell Causley | Bournemouth, England | 1985 | December 18, 1996; overturned in 2003; reconvicted upon retrial in 2004 | Carole Packman went missing shortly after initiating a divorce with her husband. Initially, police investigated the possibility that Causley murdered his wife, but closed the investigation when sufficient evidence was not forthcoming. Years later, when Causley was discovered to have faked his own death in an attempted life insurance scheme, police reopened the investigation, which led to Causley's first conviction. Packman's disappearance became the subject of the 2016 television series The Investigator: A British Crime Story. |
| Helen McCourt | Ian Simms | Billinge, Merseyside, England | February 9, 1988 | March 1989 | A 22-year-old woman last seen walking towards the pub owned by the convict, who had previously made rejected advances on her, and had also banned her from the pub after she had an argument with another patron. Forensic evidence included McCourt's blood found in Simms's car; a plastic binfold left by a river, that contained McCourts's clothes, hair and a flex with toothmarks that were matched to one of Simms' dogs; and a set of clothes and two towels, property of Simms and sprinkled with McCourt's blood, that were found abandoned near the Manchester Ship Canal. |
| Laura May Al-Shatanawi | Hassan Shatanawi | Hartlepool, County Durham, England | June 1993 | October 1994 | Laura May Al-Shatanawi disappeared in June 1993. Her husband did not report her missing for a month, and after he appeared on television supposedly appealing for information a man told police that he had been asked by the husband to burn a garden shed he had just bought for his allotment at the same time Laura went missing. The shed was recovered and her blood and parts of her scalp were found on its floor. The husband was convicted of her murder and it is believed he killed her to hide his affair. |
| Janice Wood | Michael Sagar | Bradford, England | August 22, 1994 | November 24, 1995 | A 36-year-old mother of two who was shot dead with a shotgun by her former lover. Her body was never found but her blood and parts of a human liver were found in the man's car. |
| Jane Harrison | Kevin Doherty | Wood Green Shopping City, London, England | June 15, 1995 | January 29, 2013 | A 32-year-old woman who disappeared while shopping for a holiday she was due to take with her partner in two days time. The partner, who claimed she had run off with another man, was soon questioned about the disappearance and was convicted of her killing in 2013 after it was heard that he had made two false phone calls to himself pretending to speak to Harrison after her disappearance. |
| Theresa Shephard | Peter Turner | Sheffield, England | July 1995 | July 26, 1996 | 25-year-old Shephard disappeared after going to meet a man in Sheffield. Her ex-boyfriend was convicted of her murder, since her blood was found in his car and he had a clear motive to kill her, as she was due to give evidence against him in an upcoming assault trial. |
| Allison McGarrigle | Charles O'Neill and William Lauchlan | Rothesay, Isle of Bute, Scotland | June 20, 1997 | June 10, 2010 | McGarrigle disappeared after arguing with two paedophiles and threatening to tell police about their abuse of a child. The two men were convicted of her murder in 2010. |
| Gracia Morton | Michael Morton | Notting Hill, London, England | November 12, 1997 | August 1, 2005 | A 40-year-old woman who vanished after visiting her estranged husband Michael Morton's home to discuss their daughter's schooling. They were known to have then argued about the matter. Her case was featured on Crimewatch, and Michael Morton was finally convicted in 2005. |
| Arlene Fraser | Nat Fraser | Elgin, Scotland | April 28, 1998 | January 29, 2003, May 30, 2012 | A woman murdered by her husband, who maintains innocence of the crime. He was given a new trial in 2012, but he was convicted. |
| Surjit Athwal | Bachan Kaur Athwal and Sukhdave Singh Athwal | Punjab, India | December 1998 | July 26, 2007 | A woman killed in a so-called "honour killing" on the orders of her 70-year-old mother-in-law acting in acted in collusion with Surjit's husband. Although she was killed in India, the pair were tried and convicted in a British court in 2007 in what was the first conviction in a British court of an honour killing committed outside the UK. Her body has never been found, but police determined she was killed after her mother-in-law and husband discovered she was having an affair and wanted a divorce. |
| Tulay Goren | Mehmet Goren | Woodford Green, London, England | January 7, 1999 | December 17, 2009 | A 15-year-old Muslim schoolgirl who was murdered by her father in a so-called "honour killing". He had disapproved of a relationship she had with an older man who was from a different branch of the Islamic religion. He would not be convicted until 2009. |
| Debbie Griggs | Andrew Griggs | Kent, England | May 5, 1999 | October 28, 2019 | Debbie had not been seen alive since she disappeared from her family home in Deal, Kent, on 5 May 1999. Andrew Griggs was an initial suspect in the Police's investigation into her disappearance; however, the Crown Prosecution Service found in 2003 the evidence submitted to them offered "no realistic prospect of conviction". A new investigation began in 2018 upon which Andrew was later charged and found guilty of her murder following a trial held at Canterbury Crown Court. Mr Griggs was handed a life sentence with a minimum tariff of 20 years.
In 2022, her remains were found buried in a back garden in Dorset, England. |
| Adam Alexander | Thomas Pryde | Errol, Scotland | November 14, 1999 | March 25, 2010 | In 2010 businessman Thomas Pryde was convicted of the murder of lorry driver Adam Alexander, after Pryde confessed that he had killed him after a row about a business deal. Pryde had told police where he had buried Alexander after his arrest in 2008, but searches failed to find the remains before the trial. In 2012, Alexander's remains were finally located. |
| Margaret Fleming | Edward Cairney and Avril Jones | Inverkip, Inverclyde, Scotland | December 1999 or January 2000 | June 2019 | Edward Cairney and Avril Jones became carers for Margaret Fleming following the death of her father in 1995. In 2016 Jones made a new benefits application in Fleming's name which raised concerns. A large-scale police search was unable to locate Fleming and it was discovered the last independent sighting of her was in December 1999 when she was aged 19. Throughout the investigation and trial the couple maintained that Fleming was alive and had left Scotland for London in January 2000. |
| Don Banfield | Shirley Banfield and Lynette Banfield | Wealdstone, London, England | May 13, 2001 | April 3, 2012 | 63-year-old Banfield was last seen leaving his family home in May 2001. His wife and daughter were convicted of his murder in 2012 after it was determined that they financially gained from the sale of his home and lied about seeing him in 2008 in order to fraudulently claim his pension. Their convictions were later quashed on appeal in 2013, even though they had pled guilty to fraud, forgery and perverting the course of justice and the defence saying that the "likelihood" was that "one or other" had murdered him. This was because they had been convicted under joint enterprise and judges ruled there was insufficient evidence to prove that both had acted together to kill him. |
| Danielle Jones | Stuart Campbell | East Tilbury, England | June 18, 2001 | December 19, 2002 | The convict's 15-year-old niece disappeared while walking to a bus stop. A pair of stockings with blood from both Jones and Campbell, and lip gloss used by Jones were found in Campbell's apartment. In addition, Campbell claimed to have received a text message from Jones after she disappeared, but it didn't match Jones's texting style, and Mobile Switching Center records showed that both Campbell's and Jones's cell phones were in the same place when the message was sent. |
| Jason Martin-Smith | Mark Searle | Hastings, England | August 21, 2001 | August 21, 2015 | 28-year-old Martin-Smith disappeared from Hastings at a time when he was receiving threats from other men after informing police that they had been involved in a burglary. Long-time suspects Mark Searle and Steve McNichol were convicted of the abduction and murder of Martin-Smith on the 15-year anniversary of his disappearance, after more witnesses came forward to report that the men had been seen dismembering a body in lock-up the day after he vanished. |
| Belinda Gibson | David Gibson, Leslie Gibson | Southampton, Hampshire, England | February 16, 2002 | July 2004 | Both were convicted of murdering David's wife Belinda, who disappeared in 2002. David later admitted disposing of her body in the Solent. |
| Jonathan Dalton | Stuart Martin | Milton Keynes, England | February 25, 2002 | December 16, 2004 | 42-year-old Stuart Martin was convicted of the killing of his 22-year-old colleague Jonathan Dolton in December 2004. He had fled the country the day after Dalton's disappearance and went on the run, before being extradited to stand trial. |
| Linda Razzell | Glyn Razzell | Swindon, Wiltshire | March 19, 2002 | November 2003 | Linda Razzell disappeared on her way to work at Swindon College. Traces of her blood were later discovered in the boot of a car which her estranged husband had borrowed from a friend, although they were initially overlooked by the forensics team. In 2018 a BBC Two documentary Conviction, reviewed the case, and considered a possible link to a convicted serial killer, Christopher Halliwell. |
| Tina Baker | Martin Baker | Sunbury-on-Thames, Surrey | July 8, 2002 | November 16, 2006 | Tina Baker was last seen on 8 July 2002 after saying she was going to feed the animals on her and her husband's farm. Her pet dog was later found abandoned nearby. Police soon became suspicious of her husband and he was convicted of her murder in 2006. His first wife testified at his trial that he had previously threatened to kill her and feed her to the pigs when they were getting divorced, and evidence put him close to the farm on the day. The motive for the murder appeared to be that he feared he was going to lose the £100,000 14-acre farm. |
| Ravinder and Devinder Chohan | William Horncy and Kenneth Regan | Hounslow, London | February 15, 2003 | July 1, 2005 |
Horncy and Regan were convicted of murdering the entire Chohan family, including the infant children Ravinder and Devinder, whose bodies have never been found. A third defendant, Peter Rees, was convicted of murdering the children's father Amarjit Chohan but acquitted of the other murders. |
| Charlotte Pinkney | Nicholas Rose | Ilfracombe, Devon, England | February 28, 2004 | January 2005 | Pinkney disappeared after leaving a party, and six days later her handbag were found in undergrowth near Ilfracombe. Scaffolder and attendee of the party Nicholas Rose was convicted of her murder after her blood was found in his car and on his shoes. Her boot was also found a minute from his home. |
| Chantel Taylor | Stephen Wynne | Birkenhead, Merseyside, England | May 2004 | January 25, 2006 | 27-year-old sex worker Taylor disappeared in May 2004. Client Stephen Wynne confessed to her murder in 2006 after he was arrested for setting fire to a mosque, revealing he had killed her with a meat cleaver and had dismembered her body. Although he was convicted, her body has not been found. |
| Michelle Gunshon | Martin Stafford | Digbeth, Birmingham, England | December 2004 | July 31, 2012 | 38-year-old Gunshon disappeared while staying at a pub in Digbeth. An employee at the pub with a history of violence and sex offences, Martin Stafford, soon became a suspect after he was caught on speed cameras driving the victim's car in the aftermath of her disappearance, before it was found abandoned. He fled to his native Ireland afterwards but was extradited and convicted of her murder in 2012. |
| Janet Brown | Donald Graham | Hexham, Northumbria, England | June 15, 2005 | June 20, 2014 | Brown vanished in June 2005 but it would not be until 2010 that her disappearance was discovered and a fraud investigation was launched, after suspicious activity was found on her bank accounts. After she went missing up to £400,000 was transferred from her account to the account of her lover, Donald Graham, and it was found she had also inexplicably transferred a large amount to him on the day she was last seen alive in 2005. Graham was convicted on her murder in 2014. |
| Jenny Nicholl | David Hodgson | Richmond, North Yorkshire, England | June 30, 2005 | February 19, 2008 | The 19-year-old mistress of the convict, a 45-year-old married father of two, with whom she had been having an affair for five years. Nicholl also had a relationship with Hodgson's older brother, which Police considered the motive of the murder. Hodgson was sentenced to life with a minimum of 18 years. |
| Li Hua Cao | Robert Ekaireb | Hampstead, London, England | October 23, 2006 | December 19, 2013 | Li Hua Cao went missing from the house she shared with her husband. She had become unhappy with her marriage and had spoken to doctors about terminating her pregnancy. The husband, Robert Ekaireb, had previously assaulted his pregnant wife and was convicted of her murder in 2013. |
| Paige Chivers | Robert Ewing | Blackpool, England | August 23, 2007 | July 10, 2015 | Vulnerable 15-year-old child Paige Chivers was reported missing from Blackpool in August 2007. 60-year-old Robert Ewing was convicted of killing her in 2015 after it was heard he had an "inappropriate sexual interest" in the child and that spots of her blood were found in the flat Ewing lived in at the time. Ewing died in 2022 without revealing where the body is. |
| Katie Prout | Adrian Prout | Redmarley, Gloucestershire, England | November 5, 2007 | February 2010 | Katie Prout was murdered by her husband, who was convicted of her murder despite her body not being found and the husband claiming his innocence. This claim would be proven to be a lie in 2011 when he confessed to the murder and led police to where he had buried her. |
| Susan Rushworth | Stephen Griffiths | Bradford, England | June 22, 2009 | December 21, 2010 | Sex worker Susan Rushworth disappeared from Bradford in June 2009. In 2010 it was revealed that she had become a victim of serial killer Stephen Griffiths, who killed two other sex workers in the city. Griffiths told police he had murdered her and her blood was later found in his flat. He was convicted of murdering all three women on 21 December 2010, although Rushworth's body was never found. |
| Jesse Richards | Kevin John Huston, Matthew Robert Taylor, Joseph Doe | Cleeve Prior, Worcestershire, England | July 2009 | April 19, 2012 | A father-of-three killed due to a drugs debt. Five men admitted being responsible for his killing but his body was never found. |
| Thomas Groome | Jason Thaxter | Thorne, South Yorkshire, England | January 1, 2010 | December 19, 2016 | Thaxter was convicted of the murder of Thomas Groome six years after his disappearance. His mother had previously been convicted of manslaughter after pleading guilty, having also been found guilty of defrauding Groome. She said there was a man present at the killing but refused to reveal who this was. In 2016 her son Jason was identified as this man and convicted of Groome's murder. |
| Emma Ward | Nicky Ward | Rockland St Peter, England | March 2010 | April 2011 | Murdered by her husband, who claimed that she had left him for another man. He later admitted the crime but claimed to have no memory of it. |
| Suzanne Pilley | David Gilroy | Edinburgh, Scotland | May 4, 2010 | March 15, 2012 | A woman believed to have been murdered by her ex-boyfriend. Evidence cited by the prosecution included scratches on Gilroy's body, that he stopped sending frequent text messages to Pilley the day she disappeared, an unjustified roundabout trip of Gilroy's car to the other extreme of Scotland on the same day and the fact that the car was later cleaned. |
| Lynda Spence | Colin Coats and Philip Wade | Glasgow, Scotland | April 14, 2011 | April 8, 2013 | Spence was killed by the offenders after she failed to pay back money she owed to them. Her blood was found in a flat of an associate, which had also been extensively cleaned, and a friend testified being suspicious of the pair trying to "get rid of something" from a boat. Coats later confessed to a fellow inmate that he put her body in a furnace. |
| Paul Morson | Ray Brierley and John Burns | St Helens, Merseyside, England | June 8, 2011 | November 23, 2012 | Morson was a car dealer who had previously been imprisoned. His former business partners were convicted of his murder, which was motivated by a drugs dispute. One of the men admitted killing him and said he dumped him in the Manchester Ship Canal, although he continues to claim the killing was "self-defence". |
| Unidentified Taliban insurgent | Alexander Blackman | Helmand Province, Afghanistan | September 15, 2011 | November 8, 2013 | Three Royal Marines were charged with murder after a video emerged of the summary execution of a wounded Taliban insurgent by Alexander Blackman. Two of the defendants, Marine B and Marine C, were acquitted, but Blackman was convicted of murder, later downgraded to manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. The identity of the insurgent and the location of the body are unknown. |
| Alethea Taylor | John Taylor | Orleton, Herefordshire, England | January 2012 | April 2, 2013 | Alethea Taylor was ruled to have been murdered by her husband, who was having an affair at the time. The husband falsely claimed she had dementia and wandered off, and also lied about having tried to repeatedly call her after she disappeared. Her blood was also found in their home. |
| Claire Holland | Darren Osment | Bristol, England | June 6, 2012 | December 11, 2023 | Claire Holland, aged 32, disappeared on June 6, 2012 after leaving the Seamus O'Donnell's pub in Bristol, England. It was later discovered that she had been murdered by her former partner, Darren Osment. Osment was convicted after he had confessed to numerous people that he had murdered Holland, including an undercover police officer. Holland's body has never been found and it is believed that Osment disposed of her body in water. |
| April Jones | Mark Bridger | Machynlleth, Wales | October 1, 2012 | May 30, 2013 | A five-year-old girl murdered in 2012. The convict stated he had deposited the body in both the Afon Dulas and River Dovey, although authorities presume the remains are near the man's home. |
| Charlotte Murray | Johnny Miller | Moy, County Tyrone, Northern Ireland | October 31, 2012 | October 8, 2019 | Charlotte Murray was last heard from on Halloween 2012, when she emailed explicit pictures of herself and another man to her ex-boyfriend, Johnny Miller. Miller claimed Murray was still alive and had sent him text messages from Belfast after she disappeared, but mobile data showed that he had been using her phone to send the messages himself. Miller was found guilty of murder in 2019. |
| Lisa Bennett | Kathleen Salmond and Kevin Flanagan | Birmingham, England | May 19, 2013 | December 13, 2019 | Bennett was killed by homeless couple Kathleen Salmond and Kevin Flanagan, who then continued to claim her benefits. Flanagan admitted benefit fraud and preventing a burial. The prosecution said that they put Bennett's body in a wheelie bin which was later incinerated at a waste disposal facility. |
| Rania Alayed | Ahmed Al-Khatib | Salford, Greater Manchester | June 7, 2013 | June 4, 2014 | 25-year-old mother Alayed was never seen again after 17 June 2013, the same day that she had gone to her brother-in-law's house at the instigation of her husband. The husband, Ahmed Al-Khatib, was convicted of her murder a year later in what was a suspected "honour killing", carried out as Al-Khatib believed she had become too Westernized. Al-Khatib said at his trial that he had become unhappy when his wife started college and started wearing make-up. He confessed to killing her, although her body was not found. |
| Farah Boscolo-Gnolo | Federica Boscolo-Gnolo | Russell Square, London, England | January 2015 | 13 April 2016 | The convict was a mentally ill Italian woman who was visiting London in January 2015. She admitted to having suffocated her two-month-old daughter but the body was not found. |
| Sylvia Stuart | Ali Qazimaj | Weybread, Suffolk, England | May – June 2016 | March 2017 | Qazimaj was convicted of murdering Sylvia and her husband Peter, whose body was found in a nearby marsh, after blood and hair matching their DNA profiles was found in his car. |
| Patricia "Patti" Henry | George Metcalff | Girvan, South Ayrshire, Scotland | November 13, 2017 | October 7, 2021 | Henry was a 46-year-old mother who was raped, assaulted and killed in her flat by 67-year-old pensioner George Metcalff. They had lived in the same block of flats since 2008. The pair made 143 calls to each other between 1 November and 13 November 2017, but Metcalff never contacted her again after 13 November and she disappeared. He made several late night trips to the victim's flat following her murder. He was convicted in 2021 despite her body never having been found. He was also convicted of two rapes committed in 1971 and 2004. |
| Julie Reilly | Andrew Wallace | Govan, Glasgow, Scotland | February 6, 2018 | February 4, 2019 | Wallace pleaded guilty to killing and dismembering Reilly in February 2019. Only two human femurs believed to have belonged to Reilly were recovered buried near Wallace's home. |
| Sarah Wellgreen | Ben Lacomba | Kent, England | October 9, 2018 | October 28, 2019 | A 46-year-old mother of five murdered in 2018. Lacomba was her ex-partner who was convicted after a four-week trial at Woolwich Crown Court and was handed a life sentence with a 27-year minimum tariff to serve. Kent Police report that the search for Sarah's body is the largest search conducted in the force's history. |
| Joy Morgan | Shohfah-El Israel | Ilford, London | December 26, 2018 | August 5, 2019 | University student Morgan was last seen at a church celebration in Ilford on 26 December 2018. Two days later on 28 December her name was removed from a "church social media chat group". It was not until 7 February 2019 that concerned flatmates reported her missing. Two days later a man who attended the same church as Morgan was arrested and Morgan's keys were found in his car. It was later found that her phone had been detected in his car on 28 December, most likely as he attempted to dispose of her body. The man, Shohfah-El Israel, was convicted of her murder on 5 August 2019, but he refused to reveal the location of her body. Two months after the conviction her body was found in woodland near Stevenage. |
| Michael O'Leary | Andrew Jones | Carmarthen, Wales | January 27, 2020 | October 19, 2020 | Jones lured O'Leary, a man his wife was having an affair with, to a remote farm in January 2020 and killed him with a shotgun before burning his body. Although his body was not found, O'Leary's blood and part of his intestine was found at the farm. Jones had used O'Leary's phone to text his loved ones pretending he had killed himself, but the messages did not match his texting style. The case featured on the ITV documentary No Body Recovered. |
| Leah Ware | Mark Brown | Hastings | 7 May 2021 | 1 December 2022 | Leah Ware was an escort living out of a shipping container on Little Bridge Farm, which was owned by her boyfriend Mark Brown. She was last seen alive on 6 May 2021 when she met a male friend; her phone disappeared from the network the following day. Police became aware of Leah's disappearance while investigating the murder of Brown's second partner, Alexandra Morgan, and found that Brown had bought six litres of petrol on the day she disappeared, and after she disappeared had withdrawn money from her bank account, rehomed one of her pet dogs, and drowned the other in a pond. |
| Bernadette Walker | Scott Walker | Peterborough, Cambridgeshire | July 18, 2020 | September 10, 2021 | Scott Walker was found guilty of murder and perverting the course of justice and was jailed for life, Bernadette's mother was also imprisoned for six years for perverting the course of justice. Bernadette, from Peterborough, disappeared in July 2020, and is presumed dead as her body has never been found. Scott died in prison on 22 December 2023. |
| Frank McKeever | Surie Suksiri, Juned Sheikh | Highbury, London | August 28, 2021 | November 20, 2023 | McKeever disappeared while visiting his stepdaughter Surie Suksiri in Highbury in August 2021. The last time he was seen alive was in a 47-second video clip in which he was forced to admit to sexually assaulting Suksiri when she was six, which Suksiri sent to her boyfriend's sister on WhatsApp. Suksiri and her boyfriend Juned Sheikh were convicted of McKeever's murder in November 2023. |
| Maureen Gitau | Mark Moodie | Deptford, London | December 5, 2022 | November 17, 2023 | Maureen Gitau was reported missing by her family on 10 December 2022 after they had not seen her for five days. She had last been seen leaving her aunt's birthday party to meet caretaker Mark Moodie. CCTV showed that Moodie had taken Gitau to a block of flats where he worked, which she never left alive. Moodie was later seen moving a communal waste bin down to the basement before sending it to a processing plant where the contents were incinerated. Gitau's body is believed to have been concealed in the waste bin. Moodie was convicted of her murder in November 2023. |
| Fiona Holm | Carl Cooper | Catford, London | June 20, 2023 | June 28, 2024 | Fiona Holm was last seen in June 2023. Her abusive partner, Carl Cooper, was found guilty of her murder and that of another woman, Naomi Hunte. During the trial Cooper tried to suggest that Fiona was still alive and had been kidnapped by Hamas. |