When Missing Turns to Murder

22-year-old insurance clerk Helen McCourt was returning home from work in Liverpool before going out on a date with her new boyfriend that evening. She got off the bus on Rainford Road in Billinge - just 500 yards from her home - and went missing.

22-year-old Lorraine Benson arrived at Raynes Park to meet her friend Peter, who was due to move to Australia the following day, but Peter never showed.

Young mother Natalie was killed by her boyfriend Paul Hemming in their family home whilst her three children slept upstairs.

On June 5, 1998, well-liked 11-year-old Wesley waved goodbye to his mother Liz and rode off on his bike to go to the local shop to get some sweets. He never returned.

Sam Gillingham was 16 when her mother, Carole Packman, vanished from the family's suburban home in the seaside resort of Bournemouth.

15-year-old Danielle Jones was last seen on the morning of June 18, 2001 near her home in East Tilbury, Essex.

When habitual runaway Shafilea Ahmed went missing for the last time in September 2003, neither of her parents made any attempt to contact her or the police, and authorities quickly grew suspicious.

On the weekend before she was killed, 17-year-old Jayden Parkinson told her mother Sam that she was pregnant and that her controlling boyfriend Ben was the father.

On December 29, 1999, Evelyn Lund left the home of her close friend in the remote Tarn region of southwest France. She never made it home.

Ten days after exchange student Janet Müller was formally sectioned at Mill View hospital in Hove, she climbed over a wall to escape. Missing turns to murder only one day later.