Chloe Hoson was a 5-year-old girl living in Sydney, Australia. She was described as a happy, playful girl who loved animals.

In 2003, Chloe’s mother told her to play outside while she cleaned the family caravan. While outside, Chloe saw the man who lived in the neighbouring caravan, 22-year-old Timothy Kosowicz. Kosowicz lured Chloe into his caravan telling her that she could play with his new kitten. Kosowicz claimed that while inside Chloe knocked over a pot of cannabis and that he ‘lost the plot’ and choked her before suffocating her with shopping bags and abusing her body. He then put Chloe’s remains in a sports bag which he dumped at a nearby creek.

Kosowicz was not convicted of the crime due to being found mentally ill, he spent 15 years on a psychiatric unit before being released.

The Murder of Ashleigh Hall

Ashleigh Hall was a 17-year-old student living in Darlington, UK. She was in her final year of college and hoped to become a childminder or a nursery nurse.

Ashleigh struggled with her self-esteem and preferred to make friends online. She met a boy who she believed was around her age on the social media network Facebook, he had an attractive profile picture and thousands of Facebook friends. As the pair began to speak, the boy showered Ashleigh with compliments and flattery, she eventually agreed to meet the boy in person.

On the day the two were due to meet, 25th October 2009, the boy texted Ashleigh and told her that his father would pick her up and drive her to see him. Ashleigh left her home telling her mother she was going to see a friend. When she arrived at the meeting point the boy texted her giving her a description of his father who was waiting in his car, she got in and was never seen alive again.

It soon emerged that the boy Ashleigh had been talking to was fictitious and that the man behind the profile was actually 32-year-old drifter Peter Chapman. Chapman raped and murdered Ashleigh before dumping her body in a field. Further investigation found that Chapman was a known predator and convicted rapist. He had also attempted to meet two 15-year-old girls before murdering Ashleigh. One of the girls had arranged to meet him in the car park after being lured by his fake profile but had run away when she saw him sitting in his car, it is thought that it was then that he came up with the ruse of telling Ashleigh she would be meeting the father of the boy she thought she had been speaking to.

Chapman was sentenced to 35 years in prison. Ashleigh’s mother urged families to be vigilant online and young people not to meet people without telling their family where they were going.

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