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June 29 — Bob Crane, an actor and director who was best known for his role as Robert E. The police could find no motive for the crime, there were no witnesses and no leads. Therefore, his death remains unsolved. His mother Margaret Livesey, 43, was jailed for life for murder after she confessed to the crime. She recanted the confession a few days later. She was released from prison in and died of throat cancer in , still maintaining her innocence.
Stephen Chafer, 17, who was related to her through marriage, had been out drinking during the afternoon and came across her sitting in the snow crying while he was walking to their house. He was released in , returned to prison in for arson — but then released again on licence in He admitted arson with being reckless whether life would be endangered and was sentenced to 26 months in prison, but was released on licence on 9 August Then on 23 June he went to the home of Faye Mills, a year-old woman with dementia whom he had known for about 15 years, in Peterborough.
He will be sentenced on Jan 4, October 10 — Carol Wilkinson, 20, a bakery worker, was killed as she walked to work in the Ravenscliffe area of Bradford. Anthony Steel, a council-employed gardener thought to have worked nearby, was arrested 18 months later over her murder. He was jailed for life and spent 20 years in jail protesting his innocence.
Psychological evidence obtained while he was in prison showed that he was of low IQ, had learning difficulties and was easily led and suggestible. He was released but remained in poor health and died, of a heart attack, aged 52, in It has since been suggested the real killer may have been Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper. June18 — Gurdip Singh Chaggar, 16, was murdered in Southall by a gang of white racists. Nobody was convicted of his murder.
Read was acquitted. She was the ex-wife of Righteous Brothers singer Bill Medley. In DNA was used to identify the killer. He was Kenneth Troyer, who was killed by police in His body wad found in reeds on the banks of the river Tyne. A man confessed to killing Gary and was convicted of manslaughter due to diminished responsibility. But his conviction was later quashed after Kenneth Woodhouse confessed in She had long, reddish-brown hair, and seven expensive gold crowns. She was between 25 and 35, possibly older.
She weighed to pounds, and stood 5 feet 6 to 5 feet 8 inches. She had been dead for up to two weeks.
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October — Bronwynne Richardson, 17, a beauty queen, was raped and murdered after being abducted outside a church in Albury, New South Wales, close to the Victoria border. In Colin Newey, 62, was charged with murder but the charges were dropped in Lorry driver John Preece , from the Midlands, was jailed for life but freed on appeal in after suspicions about the forensic work of Dr Alan Clift. June 7 — Derby Day — the body of Judith Roberts, 14, was discovered under a pile of hedge clippings and plastic fertiliser bags in a field near Tamworth, Staffordshire. She had left her home in Wiggington to ride her green bicycle along Comberford Lane, Tamworth.
She was dragged from her cycle, battered to death and her body partly concealed. At the height of the inquiry, more than detectives were looking for the murderer of the shy teenager. They took more than 15, sets of fingerprints and more than 11, statements. Nearly 11, house-to-house inquiries were made and road checks were set up. A total of 4, separate pieces of information were acted on.
Four months later Andrew Evans , a depressed asthmatic young soldier, confessed to her killing. He confessed after being disturbed by a dream in which he believed he saw the face of the murdered girl and said he wanted to see a photograph of her. He was jailed for life for murder in In the campaigning organisation Justice took up his cause. He was eventually freed by the Court of Appeal three years later.
Oct 12 — Barbara Mayo, 24, a trainee teacher from London, vanished while hitch-hiking up the M1. Six days later her body was discovered in woodland near Ault Hucknall, Derbyshire.
She had been bludgeoned over the back of the head and garotted. DNA evidence had been left at the scene. His battered body found the following day. There is DNA evidence. She had been raped and strangled. Police have the DNA of the killer. Her body was found six days later by a farmer in Square Wood, near Knutsford, Cheshire. She had been raped and strangled with an electric cord. October — Paul Booth, 19 months old, died at his home in — Stockton-on-Tees when his father swung him around and smashed his head against a fireplace.
He was also convicted of child cruelty. Her body was found in woods at Mere, near Knutsford, Cheshire. She had been sexually assaulted and strangled. There has been speculation linking her to serial killers Peter Tobin and Peter Sutcliffe. Jan 6 — Bernard Oliver, 17, vanished from home in Muswell Hill, north London, where he lived with his father and five siblings.
His dissected body was found in two suitcases in a field in Tattingstone, Suffolk on 16 January. April — Fred Craven, a bookmaker, was bludgeoned from behind with a hammer in Bingley, West Yorkshire. There have been suggestions the killer could have been Peter Sutcliffe, later known as The Yorkshire Ripper. September 12 — Sidney Leeson, 75, was bludgeoned to death at his home in Leicester city centre after reading the local paper.
The case remains unsolved. Sep 8 — George Wilson, 41, a former miner, was stabbed to death outside his pub, the Fox and Grapes in Sneinton, Nottingham. He was found by his wife Betty.
The killing became known as the Pretty Windows murder because of the attractive glasswork at the pub and triggered one of the biggest manhunts carried out by Nottinghamshire Police. Oct 28 — Mary Horton Vail, drowned in Mississippi. Her husband Felix Vail, by then 74, was charged in and awaits trial on Nov 17, He is also suspected of killing his common-law wife, Sharon Hensley, who disappeared in ; and his wife Annette Vail, missing since Dec — Maureen Dutton, 27, a mother of two, was stabbed to death in the afternoon in the front room of her home in Knotty Ash, Liverpool.
Her toddler son David and baby boy Andrew were the only witnesses. One of the most bizarre theories detectives considered, for a short while, was that Mrs Dutton was killed by a Polynesian cult as a sacrifice to their God Tiki. In a twist, a year-old male nurse living in Upper Parliament Street was arrested and charged with theft of drugs and equipment from three Liverpool hospitals in He was also said to have masqueraded as a doctor and had a reversed swastika tattoo on his arm — the identification mark of a Tiki-worshipper.
It remains unsolved. Robert Dickson, another lighthouse keeper, was sentenced to death but this was commuted and he was sentenced to life in prison. But he died two years later, of a drug overdose. The gunman Ove Conry Andersson, 17, fled on the road to Ytterby. But the following morning he handed himself and confessed. Andersson was sentenced to psychiatric treatment in a secure hospital.
He was later released and committed suicide on 12 August It was one of the first known shootings in a school in Europe. It usually took her 15 minutes. She was seen walking towards the shop and looking in the window but did not enter. Later she spoke to a local cobbler but she later vanished. Her body was found four days later in a field 18 miles away at Polstead, Suffolk.
She had been strangled with a school scarf. She never returned home. John Feit, who was the priest at Sacred Heart, was arrested in when, aged 83, he lived in Scottsdale, Arizona. He faces a murder trial. Dec 19 — Christine Walker, 24, was raped and shot when she arrived home in Sarasota, Florida. Her husband Cliff, 25, was then shot, as were their son Jimmie, 3, and Debbie, who was not yet 2.
She was drowned in a bathtub. A serial killer named Emmett Monroe Spencer subsequently confessed to the murders but his confession was discredited. The case remains unsolved although there is another theory of a connection to the unsolved Zodiac killings in California. Oct 31 — William Roy Prather, 15, a black boy, was shot in the face by a group of white teenagers in Corinth, Mississippi. Eight white teens were charged with murder, but only one was convicted.
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Jerry Darnell Glidewell, then 16, pleaded guilty to manslaughter in January and served less than a year in state prison. May 17 — Kelso Cochrane , 32, a black carpenter, was stabbed to death with a stiletto knife by a white youth in Notting Hill, west London, against a backdrop of simmering racial tension. There were also suspicions that the police feared a violent backlash if a white man were to be tried and hanged for murdering a black man less than a year after the Notting Hill race riots.
She died shortly afterwards. Examinations revealed she had been stabbed five times; one wound was straight through her heart.
The case was later linked to the murder of Gloria Booth in South Ruislip in She had taken the bus home, singing as she headed for remote Tyle Du farm where the parents, Percival and Margaret, lived.