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Police appeal to killer of 1961 schoolgirl Linda Smith. (BBC News)
more at the link, with a heartbreaking pictureThe murderer of a schoolgirl who was killed 52 years ago has been urged by police to "do the right thing" and confess the crime.
The body of Linda Smith, 12, was found in a field near Hadleigh on 20 January 1961, four days after she went missing.
Det Ch Insp Andy Smith said the case was being "fully and extensively" reviewed and there was "every reason" to believe the killer was still alive.
"Time is running out for them to do the right thing," he said.
Her death is the oldest of about 13 unsolved murders being regularly reviewed by Suffolk Police.
Linda, who lived in Earls Colne, near Halstead in Essex, was last seen walking to a shop in the village to buy a magazine for her great-grandmother.
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