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Has world’s oldest cold case been solved: Rape and murder case of 16-year-old girl scout Margaret ‘Peggy’ Beck which was reopened 57 years after her death leads detectives to suspect aged 80 traced through a DNA database Margaret ‘Peggy’ Beck, 16, was raped and killed at in Colorado, U.S. in 1963 57 years later new … Read more
A rusty 70-year-old Ford Popular found buried in a garden was put there by its previous WWII veteran owner 56 years ago because it had been too expensive to repair or tow away, it emerged today. The 1950s Ford Popular 103E car was unearthed by father-of-two John Brayshaw, 40, just inches beneath the surface of … Read more
In 2002 Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted as Britain’s second best person after William Churchill in a BBC poll In 2002 Isambard Kingdom Brunel was voted as Britain’s second best person after William Churchill in a BBC poll. The engineer was born on April 9, 1803, in Portsmouth. His father was a French engineer who … Read more
Detective Chief Inspector Caroline Goode stood in the garden of a derelict house in Birmingham and watched in nervous expectation as lifting equipment swung into place over a large, freshly dug hole in the ground. All day, a forensic expert had scraped away at the earth layer by layer until, with daylight beginning to fade, he … Read more
The scientist who cracked the 150-year-old mystery of the the sinking of the H.L. Hunley Confederate submarine has revealed the painstaking steps she took to demonstrate what killed its eight-man crew. Rachel Lance, a biomedical engineer and blast-injury specialist, describes her breakthrough in the forthcoming book In the Waves: My Quest to Solve The Mystery of A … Read more
Eighteen Amish children – who mysteriously died over the course of 15 years – had all inherited a faulty gene from the same ancestor, a new report has found. Mutation of the RYR2 gene found in the heart muscle caused the organ to suddenly stop in the otherwise healthy boys and girls who were running about … Read more