Tracey-Louise Phillips

The Chicago Tylenol murders were a series of poisoning deaths resulting from drug tampering in the Chicago metropolitan area in 1982. On the morning of September 29th, 1982 twelve year old Mary Kellerman of Elk Grove Village, Illinois died after taking a capsule of Extra-strength Tylenol. Adam Janus of Arlington Heights, Illinois died in hospital later that day, shortly after Adam's brother Stanley and sister in law Theresa Janus of Lisle, Illinois died after gathering to mourn his death having taken pills from the same bottle. In the coming days Paula Prince of Chicago and Mary Reiner of Winfield also died in similar incidents. Investigators soon discovered the Tylenol link, urgent warnings were broadcast and police drove through Chicago issuing warnings over loudspeakers. As the tampered bottles came from different factories and seven people had died all in the Chicago area, the possibility of sabotage during production was ruled out. Instead the culprit was thought to ...

Kyron Horman aged 7 went missing on June 4th 2010 when he did not arrive home from Skyline Elementary School in Portland, Oregon. On June 4th 2010, Kyron was taken to school by his stepmother Terri who stayed with him while he attended a science fair. Terri stated that she left the school around 8.45am and remembered seeing Kyron walking down the hall to his first class, however Kyron never made it to class; instead he was marked absent for the entire day and has not been seen since. Terri's statements to the police indicate that after leaving the school at 8.45am, she ran errands at a grocery store until around 10.10am. Between 10.10am and 11.39am, she states that she drove around town in an attempt to soothe her daughter who had a earache with the motion of the vehicle. Terri went to the local gym at 11.39am and worked out until around 12.40pm. By 1.21pm she had arrived home and posted photos on facebook of Kyron at the science fair earlier that morning.   Kyron at the...

On Friday 3rd August 12 year old Tia Sharp is seen leaving her grandmothers home in New Addington, South-East London, at around midday. Tia told relatives that she was going to the Whitgift Centre in Croydon, it was the last time anybody saw Tia. On Monday 6th Tia's family makes an emotional plea for her to return home as police find no trace of her on CCTV. On Tuesday 7th A CCTV image of Tia outside of her local Co-Op is released as her grandmother says she hopes it will jog someones memory. It is thought that the last person to see Tia is her grandmother's partner, Stuart Hazell. Police begin searching a local wood scouring the undergrowth. The Sun newspaper offers a £25,000 reward. Tia's uncle makes a televised plea for her safe return. Fifty-five sightings were reported by members of the public, but none were substantiated. Eighty police officers were assigned to the search, and 800 hours of CCTV footage were collected. On August 8th Police take a German She...

On Thursday May 26th 2005, Natalee Holloway (18) and 124 fellow graduates of Mountain Brook High School arrived in Aruba for a five day unofficial graduation trip. The teenagers were accompanied by seven chaperone's. (According to a teacher and chaperon, "the chaperone's were not supposed to keep up with their every move.) On Monday May 30th around 1.30am Natalee was seen by classmates leaving the Aruban bar and nightclub Carlos'n Charlies in a car with 17 year old Joran Van Der Sloot and his two friends 21 year old Deepak Kalope (the owner of the car) and 18 year old Satish Kalope.  Later on that day Natalee had been scheduled to fly home but she did not appear for her flight. When Natalee failed to make her flight and her packed luggage and passport were found in her room without her,  Aruban police initiated searches for her throughout the island and surrounding waters but did not find her. When Natalee failed to make her flight her mother Beth and stepfa...

On 12th February 1993 Denise Bulger, James bulger (aged 2) and Denise's brothers girlfriend Nicola ( not every source mentions she was there others say it was only Denise and James) went to the New Strand shopping centre in Bootle. Nicola went to TJ Hughes to exchange some clothes, Denise waited near by watching the children ( there is only one source I've found that states that there were "children" implying that James was not the only child with them that day). For a moment James went out of sight, he was becoming agitated and made a fuss of having been in the pushchair, James then wondered off only to soon find himself alone and cry out . Denise picked James up and left to buy the "children" as snack in the hopes it would calm James down. A source states that someone who saw James said that he was full of energy, at a clothing shop he was throwing clothes around and in another store grabbed sweets and juice from the shelves before his mother could sto...

On Sunday August 4th 2002, Holly Wells and Jessica Chapman were reported missing at 9.45pm by their parents after the girls hadn't come home from buying sweets. Earlier on in the day the girls had been at a barbecue at Holly's home in Red house Gardens, Soham, Cambridgeshire. At about 6.15pm the girls went out to go buy some sweets and on their way back walked past the house of Ian Huntley the caretaker at the local school but the girls never came home. After the girls were reported missing the police released a photograph taken only hours before the girls disappearance of the them wearing Manchester United replica football shirts and a physical description of each of them.  In the early days of the search for the missing girls a women living in the village of Little Thelford claimed to have seen two girls who matched the appearance and clothing of that of Holly and Jessica walking past her home on the morning after they were reported missing. On August 7th police seized ...