What's the first major news story you can remember living through as a child?

I remember it being on the news about a young woman called Lesley Whittle being kidnapped. The man who had taken her was known as The Black Panther'. It was 1975, so I would have been 8. Poor Lesley was missing for weeks and there were updates on the news every night before being found deceased in a drainshaft in a park a few months later. I renember being very sad she was dead. It terrified me someone could do such a thing. I truthfully felt fear up until the day I heard Donald Neilson, The Black Panther had been arrested.
I've never forgotten poor Lesley. I hope she is resting in paradise. X