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  2. Hitchhiking - Wikipedia

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    Hitchhiking waiting times worldwide with uncertainties of estimation (2024) - based on data from Hitchmap A man and woman hitchhiking near Vicksburg, Mississippi in 1936, photograph by Walker Evans A man with an outstretched thumb and a sign indicating his destination.

  3. Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo

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    Jacqueline "Jacqi" Ansell-Lamb was an 18-year-old secretary who worked in Manchester, and who was described as "very much a 60s teenager". [7] On the weekend of 7–8 March 1970, she had spent time collecting belongings from her old house in London and had attended a party in Earl's Court, where she met a young man. [8]

  4. Vanishing hitchhiker - Wikipedia

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    D. Stories where the hitchhiker is later identified as a local divinity. Beardsley and Hankey were particularly interested to note one instance (location: Kingston, New York, 1941) in which the vanishing hitchhiker was subsequently identified as the late Mother Cabrini, founder of the local Sacred Heart Orphanage, who was beatified for her work ...

  5. List of unsolved murders in the United Kingdom (1970s)

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    On 12 November 1972, a 22-year-old woman was found dead at her home in Randolph Avenue, Maida Vale, west London. She had been beaten, raped, and strangled, but the subsequent investigation failed to link anyone to the crime. In January 2017, police made a fresh appeal for information. [43] December 1972 Nora Wilfred Cardiff

  6. Murder of Céline Figard - Wikipedia

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    Murder of Melanie Hall, unsolved UK murder of a woman whose remains were found dumped by the M5 motorway; Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo, two unsolved murder cases (believed to be linked) of women who were abducted on UK motorways and dumped nearby; Unsolved UK cases where the offender's DNA is likewise known:

  7. Kidnapping of Colleen Stan - Wikipedia

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    Colleen Stan (born December 31, 1956) [1] is an American woman who was kidnapped and held as a sex slave by Cameron and Janice Hooker in their Red Bluff, California home for over seven years, between 1977 and 1984. At Cameron's trial, Stan's experience was described as unparalleled in FBI history. [2]

  8. Kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle - Wikipedia

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    George was a self-made businessman who had begun his career as a bus driver, but had established a haulage company in the 1930s, [11] which he evolved into a coach firm and which gradually became one of the most successful coach business in the Midlands, with a fleet of seventy vehicles by the 1960s. As such, the Whittle family were wealthy ...

  9. Junk (novel) - Wikipedia

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    Junk, known as Smack in the US, is a realistic novel for young adults, written by British author Melvin Burgess and published in 1996 by Andersen in the UK. Set on the streets of Bristol, England, it features two runaway teenagers who join a group of squatters, where they fall into heroin addiction and embrace anarchism.