10 Infamously Chilling Deaths And Disappearences

Beginning on May 10th, 1927, Brighton, England became the “queen of slaughtering places.” When staff of Charing Cross Railway station in Brighton noticed an “odious” smell coming from a cloakroom, they discovered a woman’s limbless body inside an unmarked trunk. Along with her shoes and handbag, severed appendages were also found in the trunk, individually wrapped in brown paper.

Again on June 17, 1924, a foul smell led a cloakroom attendant to discover a butchered woman’s corpse inside a locked trunk. The trunk contained arms and a torso parcel-tied and covered in blood soaked paper. A trunk containing the woman’s severed legs was found in a trunk at Kings Cross station. 

So far neither bodies had been identified and the only piece of evidence was a piece of paper with the name “Ford” written on it. The community was terrified and police began making “house-to-house” searches to find an answer.

On July 15, police found another locked trunk at 52 Kemp Street in Brighton. Inside was the decomposing body of 42-year-old prostitute, Violet Kaye. The house and the murder were linked to Kaye’s lover, Tony Mancini, a heavy drinker with a criminal record. However, the jury found Mancini not guilty (he claimed the murder was committed by one of Kaye’s clients). Whether Mancini actually committed the murders, and who the unidentified women were, remains a mystery.