The murder of Joanna Yates in 2010 really freaked me out. She was a couple of years older than I am, and was killed by her neighbour. They suspected the landlord for a while (and he was quite dodgy looking) - it was a bit of a trial by media, but the neighbour confessed in the end. They used to show cctv footage of her going to the shop to buy her dinner on her way home, then her boyfriend got back and she had disappeared. I still don’t really know what happened but she probably trusted the neighbour and had maybe let him in?
There’s another case where a young woman was murdered by her neighbour, I can’t remember her name. She was on her way home from a night out and for some reason got out of the taxi and spent a long time sitting on a bench. Then they found her body in the river and the neighbour was arrested for her murder. I just can’t think what she would have been doing and how she ended up in the hands of that monster. It’s so scary.
Another one I think of sometimes is one I saw ages ago on crime watch. It was a kidnapping where a woman was thrown into the back of a van but was able to send a text message to alert somebody, they tracked it for a while but eventually the phone was turned off. If anyone know what case this was I’d love to know so I can read about it again.