The Disappearance of Martin Brown
It was Saturday evening, May 25, 1968. Four-year-old Martin went out to play, but his parents started to get worried when he didn’t come home. The family lived in a working-class neighborhood in Scotswood, Newcastle – in the northeast of England.
Mary Bell. Source: Wikipedia
This was in the days when young children would be allowed to roam the neighborhood freely because, apparently, stranger danger wasn’t a thing until the 1990s. Martin would often go play outside with his friends and come home in the late afternoon for his tea (that’s what we Americans call dinner.)