On the evening of 23rd April 2004, Robin Chard is making his way home from a quiet night out with friends in Newcastle when his life is cruelly cut short by two complete strangers, Christopher Smith and Joseph Mee.
In the early hours of 30th January 2016 after a night out with friends, distressed and vulnerable India Chipchase (20) is lured into a cab by a stranger promising to get her home safe from outside a nightclub in Northampton.
On 9th June, 2017, Yingying Zhang misses a bus to an appointment in Urbana-Champaign, Illinois, and is last seen getting a car. Yingying is never seen again.
On 7th February 2015, 69-year-old Pastor Ron Browning is home alone in Beckley, West Virginia when he answers the door to a stranger, completely unaware he has just met the stranger who will end his life in a completely unprovoked attack
On 19th December 1995, 19-year-old French hitch-hiker Céline Figard goes missing after accepting a lift from a lorry driver on the M4 in Berkshire. Her body was discovered dumped at a layby in Worcestershire 10 days later.
In April 1993, 35-year-old Debbie Buxton is walking her dogs on her local riverbank in the village of Marston-on-Dove in Derbyshire when she crosses paths with the man who will end her life.
On the evening of 6th October 1998, 21-year-old student Matthew Shepard accepts a lift home from two strangers he's been chatting to in a bar in Laramie, Wyoming.
In June 1993, 11-year-old Jeralee Underwood leaves home on her local newspaper round. It's dusk when her parents become worried and soon a neighbour confirms their worst fears, she's been abducted; forced into a car by an unfamiliar man.
In February 2009, 14-year-old Amber Dubois vanishes while walking to school in Escondido, California. A year later, 17-year-old Chelsea King disappears while jogging in San Diego.