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While the case of Glenis Carruthers, 20, found dead in Bristol in January 1974 has been in the news of late because of its similarities to the recent murder of Joanna Yeates, of Clifton, Bristol, whose body was found on Christmas Day, 2010, the cold case investigation into Ms. Carruthers's death was actually launched eleven months before, in January 2010.
From the Avon and Somerset Constabulary website:
The night Glenis Carruthers was murdered
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On 19th January 1974 Glenis Carruthers travelled from Bedford, where she was a student, to attend a friend's 21st Birthday party on Worcester Crescent in Clifton, Bristol.
At around 10.20pm Glenis left the party, possibly to get some fresh air or to make a call from a telephone Kiosk, situated nearby.
Just after 11.00pm there was a sighting of Glenis on the Clifton Downs. The witness thought he saw a courting couple on the grass. A short time after her body was discovered. She had been strangled to death.
The witness described the man as white, between 20 to 25 years old; around 5ft 10inches tall in height, medium build, with brown shoulder length hair. He was wearing a three-quarter length coat and a denim type cap.
At the time of the murder 175 officers assisted the investigation and more than 16,000 people were interviewed, however no information was obtained to identify the offender.
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http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/newsroom/special_appeals/glenis-carruthers/
The Possible Connection with the Death of Joanna Yeates
Detectives are investigating the possibility that Miss Yeatess killer could also have throttled Glenis Carruthers, 20, who was murdered in 1974 after leaving a party just 350 yards from where Miss Yeates lived.
A cold case review team set up last year to reinvestigate Miss Carruthers murder is liaising closely with officers in the Joanna Yeates inquiry after identifying a series of striking similarities between the two killings.
Both women had been strangled, were found fully-clothed and had not been sexually assaulted. Both women also appeared to have died quickly without being able to put up a struggle, and in both cases the victims were found without shoes on.
In each case the crime appeared to be motiveless, the victims were a similar age and were attacked at a similar time of night.
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more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-of-1974-victim-say-killer-could-be-same.html
Whether or not the two crimes are related, it is hoped that the spotlight shone on Glenis Carruthers's case because of its similarities with that of Joanna Yeates will help produce a solution after these many years.
Posts and links relevant to the Carruthers case are invited.
From the Avon and Somerset Constabulary website:
The night Glenis Carruthers was murdered
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On 19th January 1974 Glenis Carruthers travelled from Bedford, where she was a student, to attend a friend's 21st Birthday party on Worcester Crescent in Clifton, Bristol.
At around 10.20pm Glenis left the party, possibly to get some fresh air or to make a call from a telephone Kiosk, situated nearby.
Just after 11.00pm there was a sighting of Glenis on the Clifton Downs. The witness thought he saw a courting couple on the grass. A short time after her body was discovered. She had been strangled to death.
The witness described the man as white, between 20 to 25 years old; around 5ft 10inches tall in height, medium build, with brown shoulder length hair. He was wearing a three-quarter length coat and a denim type cap.
At the time of the murder 175 officers assisted the investigation and more than 16,000 people were interviewed, however no information was obtained to identify the offender.
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http://www.avonandsomerset.police.uk/newsroom/special_appeals/glenis-carruthers/
The Unsolved Murder of Glenis Carruthers 1974
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But whatever her reason for leaving [the party], Glenis walked half a mile through the pitch-black streets. At the time, Edward Heath's fight with the miners was at its height and the country was crippled by an energy crisis.
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Glenis reached a grassy spot near a slip road between The Avenue and Northcote Road. There was a telephone kiosk nearby It was there that she met her killer.
A senior overseer of the big cats, reptiles and camels at the zoo,.50-year-old Alf Elliott, who lived nearby in Northcote Road, said that he had spotted someone who fitted Glenis's description while he was out exercising his dogs.
He passed what he thought was a courting couple but when he passed them again the man got up and walked away, leaving the woman in the grass. 'I shouted to him 'Hey, what's your game?'
He didn't reply and I repeated what I had just said.
'He just stared and went on. his way,' the zoo keeper said. 'I called the police straight away. I could not see the man very well as it was quite dark and a mass of hair hid his face.'
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There was one clue the shank of a pair of spectacles which might have belonged to Glenis's assailant was found near the scene of the crime. Every optician in the county was visited but no information was forthcoming about the wearer.
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the rest of the fine article is here
The Possible Connection with the Death of Joanna Yeates
Detectives are investigating the possibility that Miss Yeatess killer could also have throttled Glenis Carruthers, 20, who was murdered in 1974 after leaving a party just 350 yards from where Miss Yeates lived.
A cold case review team set up last year to reinvestigate Miss Carruthers murder is liaising closely with officers in the Joanna Yeates inquiry after identifying a series of striking similarities between the two killings.
Both women had been strangled, were found fully-clothed and had not been sexually assaulted. Both women also appeared to have died quickly without being able to put up a struggle, and in both cases the victims were found without shoes on.
In each case the crime appeared to be motiveless, the victims were a similar age and were attacked at a similar time of night.
---
more here:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukn...-of-1974-victim-say-killer-could-be-same.html
Whether or not the two crimes are related, it is hoped that the spotlight shone on Glenis Carruthers's case because of its similarities with that of Joanna Yeates will help produce a solution after these many years.
Posts and links relevant to the Carruthers case are invited.