For 14 months a community lived in absolute fear as a terrifying figure haunted the streets of Thornaby, prowling for young women on the street and attacking them in their beds.
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For 14 months a community lived in absolute fear as a terrifying figure haunted the streets of Thornaby, prowling for young women on the street and attacking them in their beds.
On the morning of Halloween in 1991, a woman is found bludgeoned to death in a storeroom locked from the inside.
Suspect me if you may, but without my keys I could not have gained entry to the garage and so could not have killed my wife.
Warren Green
A taxi driver is found stabbed in the heart; 30 years on it is yet to be solved. Who killed Leonard Gomm?
He was no threat to anyone. There was no need to attack him so violently or inflict such vicious injuries.
Family Statement
A father and his two young sons band together and kill the woman in their lives.
She deprived me of my life.
Glenn Howells
A 3-year-old girl skipped the 20 metres from home to an ice cream van to buy an ice pop on a warm summers afternoon. She would never return.
Rosie Palmer was murdered in Hartlepool by her own neighbour, and it took police days to find her just metres from her own home.
She was always a bright, happy little girl who was full of life, never able to sit still as is the case with any three-year-old.
Captain James Smith
Doris Shelley was a frail pensioner who had been brutally beaten in her own home and left for dead, yet there seemed to be no motive.
She was almost Churchillian, ‘I’ve lost my husband, I live alone, I’m not going to let it beat me and I can do it without anybody’s help
Frank Ryder