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[Music] in 1996 London was on the up it had seen steady recovery from the recession of
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the early eighties and from the string of crises that plagued the British economy for most of the 70s homegrown
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car manufacturing was seeing a resurgence with a record number of new cars sold in Britain there was also a
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shopping centre boom with one centre build that year being the largest in Europe the economy was growing despite
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the stock market crash that would come the following year eighty-seven two major newspapers were launched today
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enter the independent the hunger for thrilling front-page stories was high the real estate market was strong the
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house market boom occurred during this period and followed the deregulation of the mortgage market the equal pay and
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sex discrimination legislation brought about in the 70s helped push more women into the workforce and progressive
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London saw many industries encourage female workers into careers as opposed to just jobs with more women having
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greater access to mortgages the rise in female real estate agents also grew young professional women understanding
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the needs of other professional women buyers was important 25 year-old Suzy Lampley launched herself into the career
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of a southwest London real estate agent in 1985 [Music] born on the 3rd of May 1961 Suzy lamb
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who was the second oldest in a family of one boy in the three girls her parents Paul and Diana originally
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from affluent children bought them up to be a close-knit family Paul was a solicitor and Diana previously the
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co-owner of a nationwide health and fitness organization called slim castex which ran classes combining exercise
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with healthy eating stress control and life skills Suzy Lee included was headstrong and independent with a zest
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for life often described as insatiable she had a hectic social life surrounded by a tight-knit group of friends her
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mother affectionately referred to as the Putney set all well heeled with young professional women who loves socializing
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in the wine bars of Putney Putney is a sub over South West London and is where Suzy lived in a flat on her
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own Suzy was the one in the family who kept everyone in check she was the one who looked after them all the one they
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relied on on the 27th of July 1986 Diana caught up with Suzy as they were having
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an early celebration for Diana's fiftieth birthday they chatted about a theater show Diana had seen and caught
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up on what Suzy had been up to Suzy had just been windsurfing and she spoke about how exciting it was Diana
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questioned whether Suzy was over all these different adventures and Suzy said no my life is philippi Suzy had worked
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at Sturgis and Suns real estate on Fulham Road for just over a year upmarket Fulham is part of the inner
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city borough of Hammersmith and Fulham in southwest London it lies on the north bank of the River Thames pocketed
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between Hammersmith Kensington and Chelsea Suzy lived in her own flat in Putney just south of the river a seven
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minute drive or 25-minute stroll across the Putney bridge agents at Sturgis and sons filled their days with her showings
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most of the day was spent ferrying would-be buyers from house to house 1996 being a time when prospective buyers
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would either phone the office landline or drop into the storefront to make appointments face-to-face diaries were
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all handwritten on the 28th of July 1986 25 year-old Suzie lamp who went to work
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like every other day she left her flat that morning wearing a peach colored blouse grey skirt black jacket into
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black shoes her shoulder-length blond hair had just been diet only days before it was summer in London and Susie liked
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the change from her usual dark brown hair the office at Sturgis and Suns real estate was busy and everyone was rushing
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about their day just after 12:30 p.m. Susie left the office with her purse which contained 15 pounds her credit
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cards and her car keys she left her handbag behind she drove her work car a white Ford Fiesta to an appointment on
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Charles Road inform her diary entry red 12:45 mr. kipper 37 Charles Road OS OS meaning media
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outside the property she was seen waiting outside the three-story white Victorian Terrace
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just after 12:45 and 1:00 p.m. the next-door neighbor at number 35 Charles Road looked out his window and saw Susie
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greeted good-looking well-dressed men with swept-back dark hair dressed in a suit and tie he was between five foot
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six and five foot nine and around 25 to 30 years of age mr. kipper minutes later
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a second witness saw Susie and mr. kipper walking away from the house together mr. kipper was carrying a
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bottle of champagne with a large ribbon on both of these witnesses helped with artists composites of mr. Cuba which
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turned out to very closely resemble each other other witnesses believed they saw them
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lying on the grass in nearby Bishop's Park with what looked like a bottle of champagne a local shopkeeper recalled
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that morning he had served a man who asked for the most expensive bottle of champagne he had he left with an
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expensive bottle without waiting for the change another witness confirmed seeing Susie
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and a man outside another property that was for sale on Stevenage Road full about one-and-a-half miles away from the
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first property on Charles Road there was a possibility that Susie had gone from the second property first showing with
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mr. kipper as well later witnesses saw Susie arguing with a man in a black or dark-colored BMW also on Steven he drove
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a van driver told detectives he had to swerve and hit the curb to avoid a collision when a white Ford Fiesta came
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flowing towards him he saw a striking blonde at the wheel arguing with a man in a suit in the passenger seat a jogger
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leaving Bishop's Park around 150 p.m. told police that a dark car mather a BMW or Mercedes dragged towards him sounding
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the horn continuously the blonde woman in the car who stared at him as they passed appeared to be fighting with a
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male companion why late afternoon when Susie hadn't returned to the office her workmates
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started to wonder where she was it wasn't like Susie to take long lunch breaks or take time off she would always
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let someone know where she was they checked the diary and saw the entry Susie had made for the appointment with
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mr. Cooper he was not known to anyone at the agency and there was no one with that name in their records there was no
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contact phone number for him either Susie's manager called Susie's mother and said do you have any idea where your
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daughter might be mrs. Lane blue we wondered whether she could have called in to home for lunch I don't want to
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worry you mrs. Lane blue but Susana left to show a house to a client just before
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lunch and she is not returned we just wanted to check anywhere we could Diana recalled that it was so unlike Susie who
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usually stuck to the rules and regulations something must have gone wrong Susie's brother Richard received a
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call from their father Paul who told him Susie hadn't returned to work after showing someone a house everyone started
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to get very worried at 6:45 p.m. her manager reported Suzy's disappearance to the police
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with the remaining hours of daylight police retrace Suzy steps and spoke to her work colleagues while the time night
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fell they stepped up the search and upgraded Suzy's disappearance from a normal missing-persons inquiry to a
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higher-risk incident that night midd Jones of the Metropolitan Police went with other officers the Suzie's
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flattened partner and forced their way inside there was nothing in the flat to explain her disappearance no sign of any
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struggle or attack nothing out of place or unusual on their way back to full and
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police station they received news that other police officers combing the area had found Suzie's white Ford Fiesta it
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was found at 10:01 p.m. parked near the property for sale in Stevenage Road the second property she was seen outside of
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one and a half miles away from the appointment marked in her diary it looked like her car had been abandoned
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it was parked half over at garage driveway it was unlocked the handbrake was off and that the
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positioning of the seats suggest that someone other than Suzy had been driving Suzy's purse still containing the 15
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pounds was in the glove compartment a case for missing her straw hat was still sitting on the dashboard police
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acknowledged that they were likely dealing with a sinister situation extra officers were drafted in and started a
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meticulous search of the surrounding area trained search dogs were also called in
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divers searched the Thames River near Stevenage Road where her Ford Fiesta was found abandoned and a police helicopter
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also covered the surrounding areas Scotland Yard which is the headquarters of the Metropolitan Police released an
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artist's impression of mr. kipper Susie's parents joined the search and went into overdrive trying to find their
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daughter Diana said my initial reaction of frozen shock gave way to a flood of adrenaline which shot me into overdrive
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we must find her physically all that energy must be directed into action my husband and I went down to the river
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where her car had been abandoned we called we shouted we encouraged our dogs to search velvet we must have been
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disturbing the neighborhood but more than that as the police who were there made clear we
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were getting in the way initially it was thought Susie had been lured to an empty
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property by stranger posing as a client but it wasn't long before they realized that was likely Susie was thought that
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this was a plan to kidnapping and she may have even known the assailant if counts of the champagne seemed to fit
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this idea Deborah or of the independent newspaper in London described it as follows it appears to be beyond to doubt
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that she was pinpointed by a stalker who evolved the plan to ensnare her by using
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the vulnerability which her working life necessarily exposed the investigators moved quickly to interview friends
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family and work colleagues they wanted to paint a picture of Susie's habits in social life what was clear is that Susie
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had a close family and a very tight group of friends Superintendent Carter went public very early on and gained the
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help of the media the public reaction to Suzy's disappearance seemed unprecedented at the taunt people saw
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themselves in Susie's shoes or her family's shoes a young woman going about her day at work had mysteriously
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disappeared it could happen to anyone the metro police thought if they went public as quickly as possible while
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people's memories were still fresh they would have the best chance of finding Susie in the days where there was no
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CCTV and too no mobile phone records or tower pinging by witness accounts and the media were the number one tool used
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in investigations such as this the police felt that something was seriously wrong but what they were yet to realize
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was that Suzy's disappearance would become one of the largest investigations in British criminal history the
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following day at the 29th of July those are nautical in the London Evening Standard with a headline kidnap fears
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first aid agents go Scotland Yard reported there were grave concerns for Susie's safety
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police released the information that a black or dark-colored BMW could be involved theory started to fly about the
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name mr. Cooper with police investigating possible links to the Dutch name wiper but despite police
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investigations nobody of this name is found to be connected police records came up with nothing
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an incident room was set up at Fulham police station and more than 100 police were involved in the initial search
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detective Superintendent Nick Carter said the longer time goes by the more fearful I become finding her alive
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because such behavior two nights away from home without contacting a soul is totally out of character she's
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intelligent and a level-headed she is possibly being abducted police asked other local estate agents to compile
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lists of empty places in case the men had obtained keys to other properties at the time of Suzy's disappearance police
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didn't work on computer systems everything was written down on cards these cards were a little bigger than a
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standard envelope and were filed in long drawers or sometimes sat on round spinning holders to make flicking
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through them easier Suzie's card started to fill boxes is the amount of information even in the early part of
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the investigation surpassed 26,000 cards one thing which confused the public at the time was the Susy was described as
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blunt but the photos of Susy released by the police showed her with dark brown hair this was because Suzie had recently
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dyed her hair in the weeks that followed shops across London started to sell out
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of personal alarms a lot of people mostly young women felt they could be next the following Wednesday the 30th of
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July was Diana's 50th birthday in the family home in mortlake was crawling with journalists
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Diana welcomed the media hoping it would help find Susy Susie's parents made an emotional appeal to her kidnapper to let
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Susy go they said they were convinced that their daughter was still alive but we're terrified she was tied up in a
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place where she couldn't get out her father Paul said I don't believe she's being murdered I can't explain it but we
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feel very strongly that she is still alive and up with everybody's help we can find her
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the next day Diana and Paul appeared twice on television on BBC's breakfast time as well as good morning Britain
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Diana told a host I feel she's shut up somewhere that she's being held against her will I feel that because she hasn't
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contacted us she's a very strong very fit lady she should be able to cope with most situations as the media interest
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grew the family started receiving piles of letters some were from friends who were praying for them this seemed so
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particularly unjust the thing to happen to a family which is always shown caring
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love for others especially in their distress others were from strangers who had met Suzy Suzy bought my car off me
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and she struck my husband and I as a smashing girl and others were harder to decipher but Diana and Paul felt they
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needed to read every single one just in case it helped them find Suzy Diana showed a journalist the piles of letters
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and said it's something everyone can relate to and a lot of them said they felt almost as if it had happened to
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them but after one week had passed diana admitted on television that she was beginning to realize that her daughter
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might be dead quote i can face up to the fact that she has died but i cannot face
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up to what has happened in between that's too much diana revealed that suzy suffered from
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claustrophobia she had once panicked in a cable car they knew she would have been terrified to be shut in some way
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they found that easier to believe she was dead than imagine her suffering despite a police reconstruction and
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extensive media coverage during the early part of the investigation no information had moved them any further
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to determining what had happened to Suzy after returning to work at a fish shop in Hartford sure Suzy's brother Richard
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recalled that after the fish came in they would wash the floor of the shop and put a newspaper down as he laid out
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the newspaper he noticed the photo of Suzy it was then that it hit home for him he may never see his sister again
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by the beginning of August the police had over 700 calls from the public with possible information regarding Suzy's
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disappearance they also had 100 calls from people claiming to have seen Suzy on the day she vanished or just after
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each lead proved to eventually be a dead end our other witness accounts did seem
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to point towards the fact that Suzy may have known mr. kipper family and friends
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said Suzy had no enemies and they did not know of anyone who could be capable of abducting her but they did talk about
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a new me and Suzy admit not long before she disappeared Suzy had been talking about a new man she had met who came
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from Bristol or at least had a connection to Bristol a city one and a half hours west of London Suzy said the
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man often had delayed dates early or abruptly but she didn't know why she openly asked friends if they thought he
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had a wife always attached to someone else because he was forever making calls to
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Bristol during a conversation with her mother Suzy said she wasn't going to be fooled around with the next time Suzy
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mentioned the man from Bristol to her mother she said he had taken her motor-racing
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but she had become a bit scared of him she was receiving a lot of phone calls at work she mentioned the same thing to
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friends and other family members Donna asked if she needed help but Susie said she would handle it she planned to have
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lunch with him and tell him it was over Paul and Diana channelled their frustrations into a charity in Suzy's
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name the Suzy went blue trust launched on the 4th of December 1986 just a few months after she went missing
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the initial aim was to raise money for self awareness courses for people at work but over the years that has
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extended to enabling people from all walks of life to live life fully but safely the charity was started from the
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land Lewis house in southwest London in an office in the garden they wanted to ensure this wouldn't happen to anyone
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else they believed the lack of personal safety within working hours was a huge contributing factor in Suzy's
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disappearance they wanted to establish ways of educating people to improve their personal safety without curtailing
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their freedom and liberties their focus was to set up laws around safety for loan workers as well as educate
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workplaces and individuals they also wanted better education and legislation around stalking Diana and Paul threw
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themselves into the charity as a way of honoring their daughter and helping others they felt helpless as police
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continued to investigate without getting anywhere the family held a memorial service for
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Suzy her brother Richard said it was at this point he knew for sure she wasn't coming back
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he admitted to himself for the first time that Suzy had been murdered the family focused on moving forward and
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keeping the Suzy lamb blue trust going Diana worked tirelessly on numerous committees and led campaigns for changes
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in the law the most successful of which included measures to combat harassment and stalking the registration of sex
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offenders ended the registration of minicabs in the UK the charity was the driving force behind the Act passed in
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England to ensure registration for all private hire vehicles a popular taxi service called minicabs where at the
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time unregulated and drivers didn't have to be registered in any way they saw the
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risks of people's safety and were successful in getting an Act passed the change this Diana became the public face
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of the trust as she travelled relentlessly up and down the country giving talks and organizing conferences
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and seminars for every kind of organization as one year passed there was no suspect no motive no evidence and
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still no trace of Suzy by October 1987 the case officially tapered down the police vahdat would not be closed but
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they had exhausted all leads and would have to wait for something new to show itself money and resources were needed
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in other areas of policing in London there is an active Provisional IRA campaign happening in London at the time
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with various bombings and threats occurring throughout the city as well as a number of other high-profile crimes
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large-scale bank robberies drug busts a mass shooting a large underground fire killing 31 people end of the great storm
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of 1987 which killed 23 people in England and France the investigation into Suzy's
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disappearance halted and so did the media attention on the 8th of October 1987 one year in
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two months after Susie went missing 29 year-old Shirley banks disappeared from a multi-story shopping centre car park
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in central Bristol a major City 240 kilometers west of London she had spent the evening doing some late night
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shopping sometime after 7:40 p.m. when she last used her credit card to buy a dress at Topshop she and her orange mini
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club and vehicle disappeared Shirley was supposed to meet her new husband Richard for a drink after
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shopping but never showed up they had been married for only four weeks when the police launched the investigation
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into Shirley banks disappearance the next morning there was not linked in any way to Suzy lamb clue Bristol was 240
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kilometers away and the mystery man with ties to Bristol Suzy's friends and family said she was seen wasn't at the
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forefront of the investigators minds also police weren't immediately sure Shirley had met with foul play the
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morning after she went missing her workplace received a call around a 9:00 a.m. supposedly from Shirley herself saying
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she wouldn't be in she'd been up all night with an upset stomach Shirley was not seen or heard from again and
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although her workplace was sure it was her who made the call police couldn't prove it one way or the other at the
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time Bristol police received another report that the night before Shirley banks disappeared a woman had been
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approached by a man with a gun while getting into her car in Bristol she had fought him off and managed to drive away
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but suddenly Shirley's disappearance 24 hours later was starting to look very sinister in the nearby town of lemon
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conspire three weeks after Shirley banks disappeared a man wearing a motorcycle helmet walked into a dress shop and
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attempted to attack two female workers with a knife they managed to chasing me out and scream for help police arrived
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and with the help of two locals they found a bag stashed in the street containing the helmet and a knife the
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knife had blood on it and the police guessed the attacker may have injured himself while on the run
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a short distance away they noticed the men walking calmly and casually they stopped him and asked to see his hands
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one was cut and bleeding he was arrested and taken to the local police station his name was John cannon he had a set of
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keys in his possession that were traced back to his black BMW parked close to the dress shop locking in was under
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arrest the police searched his house they lifted prints and went through all of his possessions in a briefcase they
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found a car tax registration sticker which they traced to the vehicle of Shirley banks they also found an empty
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bag from the local top shops thought in the back of Karen's BMW Topshop is the store that Shirley had purchased a dress
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from off shopping before her disappearance then they found Shirley's car it was parked in the garage of
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canon's flat in Bristol it had been badly repainted royal blue and had a new license plate fitted with the
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registration SL p3 h6s John Kernan was still in custody in the lemming Tain's bar for the attack at the dress shop at
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this point the police were only able to hold him for 36 hours before laying charges or releasing him if they started
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asking him questions about Shirley banks the clock would continue to run on the dress shop attack if they then stopped
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asking questions about Shirley and went back to the dress shop attack the clock for Shirley's case would continue to run
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and it was already getting tight there was no way they could start interviewing Cannon about Shirley banks without
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running out of time for the dress shop so they made a decision John Kinnear was charged and granted
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bail for the dress shop attack as soon as Cannon signed his bail papers he was arrested by Bristol police in relation
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to Shirley banks disappearance so they now had another 36 hours to question him they heard Shirley's car in cannons
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garage he was a great suspect but it still wasn't evidence of anything Shirley still hadn't been located they
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needed a confession or further evidence or they risk Kinnear walking 50 officers were immediately placed on
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the case while holding cannon for that 36 hours six task force teams searched 15 separate areas of woods and 11
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different underwater locations in search of Shirley's body the Royal Air Force did aerial searches and a forensics team
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closely went over cannons flat that weekend newspapers ran stories of the possible links between King and Shirley
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banks and to the disappearance of Suzy lamb blue Suzy's family felt cannon matched the photo feet of mr. Cuba who
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Suzy was last seen with plus he seemed to fit the man she was seen just prior to her disappearance the men with links
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to Bristol so who was John cannon he was born in 1954 in the small town of Sutton
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Coldfield ten kilometers northeast of Birmingham centre it was good at sports although his father didn't approve his
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father an engineer was strict and had strong ideas for John's future cannon left school at the age of 17 joining the
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Merchant Navy he only lasted three months Janine's father was the general manager
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of a prestigious car showroom of British cars and he got his son a job in used car sales kenan earned the nickname
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billy lawyer for his devious ways on the job kenan got married and had a child in
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1978 they initially lived with his parents as things were tough financially but Canion abandoned his family in 1984
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another woman who was seen when this woman left him he brutally attacked her his list of prior offenses included
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robbery theft assault with a weapon fraud and rape Canon's arrest record began in 1968 when
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he indecently assaulted a woman in a phone box he was just 14 years old he was placed on probation
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just after Kinnear married there were a string of sex attacks committed in Birmingham houses with sale signs were
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being visited by men who attacked a woman if they were alone in the house although police believed Kinnear may
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have been involved they had no evidence and can even denied any involvement kenan rubbed the petrol station at
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knifepoint in february 1981 in the following month before being sentenced for that crime he robbed and raped the
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shop assistant in a knitwear shop he was sentenced to eight years behind bars in
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Bristol for the rape of the shop assistant but he only searched five in December 1985 kenan was sent to London
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to begin his rehabilitation this was seven months before Siouxsie disappeared Canion was released into a prison hostel
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on a day release program just outside the gates of the prison at Wormwood Scrubs Wormwood Scrubs is in the London
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borough of Hammersmith and Fulham right where Suzy lived worked and disappeared from well on day release Kenan was
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allowed to work he got a job as a porter at a local props hiring company he was allowed to go to bars socialise and the
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libby's days like a free man Kenan was released from the day release program entirely just three days before
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Suzy went missing police looked into him further and discovered that while canam
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was still living in the prison hostel he had an affair with a solicitor in Bristol which ended just after Suzy's
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disappearance Kinane threatened her and her family Canon also bragged to a workmate that he had met a pretty girl
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in a full and bar and told another about a special girlfriend in form he talked often about how women just felt him he
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had this charm about him a woman who worked near Suzi notified police that she saw a man staring into
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the window of Susie's real estate agency from across the street Susie's flatmate
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recalled how she received unwanted phone calls at home and several bouquets of flowers from someone which she was
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getting annoyed about it was now being suggested this men was John Kinnear Kenan was never included in the first
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police inquiry into Suzy lamb whose disappearance sex offenders and prisoners on day release were not
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targeted for questioning Susie's parents said we told them the Suzy had met a man
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from Bristol we told them about his personality that he made her feel uncomfortable they did nothing but now
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the possible links between John Kinnear and Suzy's disappearance were very clear
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but as the Press ran with it and went into a frenzy the police could find no solid evidence linking Kinnear to Suzy
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as police near the end of their 36 hour holding time for Shirley Banks disappearance they had to either charge
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cannon or let him go with the evidence they had they were able to charge him with the theft of Shirley's motor
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vehicle plus there was the assault with intent to rob from the dress shop in Limington Spa this was enough to get
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canal in front of a magistrate who granted police three more days to question him in relation to the night
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Shirley disappeared cannon told many detailed stories about shops he visited and people he saw police immediately
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recognized this tactic he was explaining real situations he had encountered very
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convincingly it was convincing because they were true accounts of him purchasing one or inquiring about buying
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curtains or seeing a friend but these events were likely to have occurred on different days this was a tactic used so
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the police would believe he was telling the truth to make his story seem more genuine but the police could not
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corroborate his alibi ball cannon was still in custody several more witnesses came forward a woman
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named Christine from a local pottery shop had been invited by John to his house for dinner the Saturday after
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Shirley went missing she told police she had tried to phone him all week because
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she had to cancel but she never got an answer about 9:00 a.m. on Friday October 9th 1987 the morning after Shirley's
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disappearance she tried again this time Johnny answered within one ring and Christine described his behavior as very
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odd he didn't remember who she was and he sounded nervous with one day left a question can n police asked the woman
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who was attacked at gunpoint at her car in Bristol the not before Shirley's disappearance to attend an identity
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parade at the station she agreed she walked into a room with one-way glass and immediately told the officers it was
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number three who attacked her number three was junking in this new charge of attempted abduction bought police
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another three days a taxi driver then came forward he had seen the location of cannons flat in the newspapers he said
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that at 2:00 p.m. the day after Shirley banks disappeared he received the request to pick up a woman from flat 2
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at 40 house which is where can-am lived only when he arrived and knocked on the door of the flat which was what taxis
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did back then John Kinnear entered the door and abruptly said no woman had ordered any taxi the taxi driver left
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confused that same afternoon Kannan asked the neighbor if he could borrow her vacuum cleaner another
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neighbor saw him with a bucket and cloth cleaning his black BMW police believe that Shirley banks was
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kept hostage and condensed flat until sometime in the afternoon the day after she was abducted so it probably was her
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that called in sick to her workplace that morning most likely against her will police found a receipt for a dry
00:32:49
cleaners in Karen's flat and when they followed it up they found it was a raincoat which had been left for
00:32:54
cleaning and it had not yet been collected the woman working at the dry cleaners said that when the raincoat was
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dropped off it had been covered in red mud forensic testing confirmed there were bloodstains on the coat at that
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time there was only limited forensic testing available so they were only able to confirm the blood group the blood
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could have belonged to John Cannon but it also could have belonged to Shirley banks they felt they had enough to
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charge can end with kidnapping Shirley if there was a chance that Shirley could be alive police felt their only choice
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was to go public with a picture of cannon with the advice of John Drewe the bristol count prosecutor at the time
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they released the photo to the media they did this understanding the risk that if the case went to trial then any
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identifying evidence of caen and from that point on would be tainted by the fact that public had been exposed to his
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photograph there would certainly be an argument from pennons defense that he may not receive a fair trial but they
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took the risk headlines across Britain read have you seen this men radio and news reports asked for anyone who knew
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John Kernan or had anything to do with him in recent months to come forward fingerprint experts build a composite of
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Shirley's prints from various items found around her home they could then try to place a match two prints found in
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cannons BMW as well as his flat it was on a single piece of paper found in a wooden chest in John cannons flat where
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they got their match on the side of the page was Shirley's thumbprint Shirley touch the piece of
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paper while being held captive when Kenan cleaned up afterwards he put the paperwork away in the chest they could
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no charge Canion for murder even though the media release hadn't worked and now we yet to find Shirley on Easter Sunday
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the following year 1988 seven months after Shirley banks disappeared her body was found a woman going to collect moss
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in the forest stumbled upon her remains just over an hour's drive from Bristol in Somerset Shirley was found in a
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forest that Quantic Hills in a wooded wetland area known as dead woman's ditch cannon had holidayed in his forests
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numerous times as a child three months later police were able to link an end to the rape of a woman in reading under the
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attempted abduction of another woman in Bristol both of these attacks occurred on the same day a few months after Suzy
00:35:22
had disappeared advancements in DNA technology played a part in linking him to the rape and although they could link
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him to the area of the attempted abduction on the same day as well there was insufficient evidence to charge him
00:35:34
with that attack so in April 1989 John cannon stood trial for the murder of Shirley banks the rape of the woman in
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Redding enter the attempted abduction at gunpoint of the woman in Bristol the night before Shirley disappeared by this
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time 150 officers from five different police forces had spent around 140 thousand hours on the case
00:35:58
the trial lasted three weeks and the jury deliberated for 10 hours cannon was found guilty and sentenced to serve
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three life sentences for the attacks he was given a minimum sentence of 35 years
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his appeal against his conviction was rejected in 1991 despite being given a minimum term during sentencing the judge
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said you should never again be at Liberty outside of prison walls in the trial that came out that in 1987 almost
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a year after Suzy's disappearance and only three days before the abduction and murder of Shirley banks Junkin in went
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to a dating agency in Bristol and made a video he used the name John Peterson well I think apart from the physical
00:36:46
side again I think somebody who's pleasant who's natural is relaxed I know somebody who's career oriented to
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myself I couldn't blame them for that as soon as Cannon was sentenced the Metro police in London arranged an interview
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with him he denied any involvement in Suzy's disappearance he even denied ever being informed he did not have an alibi
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for the day she disappeared police knew cannon had a type of woman he liked attractive young professional women he
00:37:34
was charismatic and good-looking he knew how to entice women with romantic gestures he perfectly fit the
00:37:41
description of mr. kipper the men Susie was seen with the day she disappeared he
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drove a black BMW and he could live with these but they couldn't come up with any
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solid evidence linking him to Susie Lampley when the investigation into command failed to produce any results Susie's
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parents went to the High Court and obtained a ruling to declare Susie deceased this became official in
00:38:06
February 1994 Susie Lampley was officially declared dead presumed dead murdered in 1997 the Susie Lampley trust
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played a key role in the passing of the protection from harassment act which clamped down on crimes involving
00:38:20
stalking and allowed for stalkers to be prosecuted and imprisoned in late 1999 police pushed to reopen the cold case of
00:38:29
Susie in blue with advances in forensic testing they believed there was a chance
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they could move forward with the investigation and in the year 2000 the case was officially reopened with Jim
00:38:40
Dickie named to senior investigator it was codenamed Operation Phoebus Dickie waded through the vast amount of
00:38:48
notes made in the initial investigation and looked into the many different theories that surrounded the case
00:38:54
everyone from criminologist to psychics had sent their theories to police but what the case was lacking was hard
00:39:01
evidence after a review police admitted opportunities were missed due to the sheer volume of information that came in
00:39:08
during the investigation causing the pursuit of a lot of false leads they had a number of suspects on that list one by
00:39:15
one they eliminated every suspect until they got down to the one name they couldn't eliminate John King in cannon
00:39:23
was ring interviewed twice more about Suzy's disappearance he again denied ever visiting form but police had proof
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he had he also denied having access to a black BMW in 1986 even though he was arrested with one the following year the
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new officers on the case began to uncover a vast amount of circumstantial evidence against cannon during his time
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in prison prior to Suzy's disappearance cannon was nicknamed kipper Daphne sergeant an ex-girlfriend of
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cannons came forward and said as soon as I heard about Susie I knew it was John I
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had all the hallmarks right down to the champagne Canon's own sister told the media that
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she believed he did it and implored him to reveal the whereabouts of Susie's body former Detective Chief Inspector
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Brian Saunders set inquiry showed that he went window shopping for girls he would spot an attractive girl in an
00:40:21
estate agents office or Building Society and to pursue her they also questioned him on the license plate he had put on
00:40:28
Shirley banks Minnie he had changed the license plate to one that read ASL p38 6s they thought SLP could have stood for
00:40:37
Susie lamp Lou with a number 86 being the year he killed her police felt canon was the type of men to play this sort of
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cat-and-mouse games he was extremely manipulative during questioning yet an act of turning the
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questioning back on to interviewing officers and would address officers by their first names even though he was
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serving life Canion treated police interviews like he was having a casual chat in the pub an officer asked him if
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he realized the significance of the letters of the license plate Cannon said yes when asked to elaborate cannon said
00:41:12
I bought that car off a Bristol businessman for 100 pounds that man is in a lot of trouble the police officer
00:41:20
said no John you were in a lot of trouble too which can and said yes but that mean committed the murders of
00:41:27
Shirley banks Susie green blue and another girl the officer said is that me a new genre
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he answered yes but within two seconds he retracted his statement and denied it cannon had to pause the interview as he
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was overcome with emotion it was the first time he had shown any sign of weakness but police still didn't have
00:41:48
the evidence required to charge Kinnear for Suzy's disappearance a reenactment in 2000 bought new
00:41:55
witnesses Ford with further circumstantial evidence the jogger had seen Suzy in a car with a man fitting
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the description of John Kinnear the car was a black or dark-colored BMW police identified a car that Kinnear had used
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with another criminal from the prison hostile to commit a crime around the same time of Suzy's disappearance that
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car was a dark colored BMW a woman came forward identifying John Kinnear as the man who had appeared at her house in
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1986 in full uninvited at the time of Suzy's disappearance the woman's house was for sale and Kinnear knocked on the
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door without an estate agent he asked to have a look around and although she felt
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uneasy and suspicious she let him in what Kannan didn't know was that the woman's husband was home when Kinnear
00:42:44
saw the husband he acted even more strangely and fled the house this mo mirrored the string of attacks on women
00:42:51
selling their homes in Birmingham also linked to Kinnear another witness came forward confirming she'd seen a man
00:42:58
fitting John cannons description staring into the window of Susie's office the day before Susie disappeared
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Kennan's ex-girlfriend Gilly page came forward and gave details of a conversation she remembered having with
00:43:12
Kenan while driving from Bristol to Birmingham via the m5 motorway Janine allegedly confessed to her that he had
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raped and murdered the estate agent while driving in the car past Norton barracks at Wooster shooting he said
00:43:25
maybe Suzy is in there by the time police received this information it had been 15 years since Suzy went missing
00:43:33
Jim Dickey said Norton barracks was a completely different place to what it had been in 1986 it had since been sold
00:43:41
off to developers and a housing estate had been built all buildings have been knocked down or completely redeveloped
00:43:47
if they're going to excavate the area they would now have to remove people's homes which they didn't feel they could
00:43:53
do the investigation team did dig up what they could but by no means could they search the entire area prior to the
00:44:02
housing estate the area was isolated army barracks where the SAS trained the use of the site by Special Forces was a
00:44:09
closely guarded secret a former SAS member said the barracks had a number of sellers and passageways and the whole
00:44:16
site was a very isolated adding that it was used for special exercises at least until 1985 the year before Suzy
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disappeared the areas that could search on the now redevelop site turned up nothing they decided to search the area
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of dead woman's ditch the forest in Somerset where Shirley banks body had been found
00:44:36
Kinnear knew the area well but again they found nothing a year later they did another search in
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Somerset this time in an area called the Somerset Levels a coastal plain and wetland area which borders the Quantic
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you'll swear Shirley's body had been found police received information that John cannon frequently visited that area
00:44:56
before being sentenced to life in prison the Royal Air Force flew over the area taking photographs for the police to
00:45:02
analyse for other possible spots to search the Royal Marines help search waterways and other local areas but
00:45:09
again nothing was found they came up empty after a second search of the Forman Norton army barracks with
00:45:17
even more advancements in forensics police began the enormous task for testing the DNA of 800 unidentified
00:45:23
bodies and skeletal remains no match was made what had happened though is that John cannon had started talking in
00:45:32
prison several prison inmates told police of silk confessions by cannon since his conviction well the police
00:45:38
accept the need for skepticism have their reliability of cell confessions taken together they were too compelling
00:45:45
to ignore according to one inmate can and confess the sushis murder same yes soft donor but I'll never find the body
00:45:53
there's no body no crime they can't prove a thing another inmate top police that after watching a news
00:46:00
report from prison can and said they won't find her there when asked where Susie was Kanin replied do you honestly
00:46:09
think I'd be daft enough to be walking around with a [ __ ] Spade she's in a house the most shocking revelation came
00:46:17
when one prisoner asking Nye wouldn't just come clean the response he got was it's not as simple as that she's not by
00:46:25
herself she's got company according to prison wardens Canion eventually stop denying his involvement in Suzy's
00:46:33
disappearance saying it's up to them to prove it they'll never prove it police were hoping to get a confession but it
00:46:42
never came they sent the file against canary to the Crown Prosecution Service or CPS a Scotland Yard spokeswoman said
00:46:50
we will review what the CPS has said and take a decision within the next fortnight not Dennis a senior Treasury
00:46:57
counsel ruled the circumstantial evidence against John Keenan was insufficient to take to court in theory
00:47:04
police could ignore the advice and charge can in any way but that would likely lead to the Crown Prosecution
00:47:09
Service dropping the case before it reached trial a statement was issued by the Susie Galea blue trust
00:47:16
the police will be studying advice in detail and will discuss with the family both the advice and the action to be
00:47:21
taken we are satisfied that the police have been doing excellent work and are continuing to do so we await further
00:47:28
developments and whatever happens will continue through the Susy Lampley trust with our work to enable other people to
00:47:34
live to safer lives Scotland Yard hold a press conference operation Phoebus and the inquiry into
00:47:42
the disappearance of Susy green/blue was suspended until such time as new evidence emerged they assured the family
00:47:49
and the public that the case was not closed just suspended prosecutors agreed that operation Phoebus had done a very
00:47:57
thorough re investigation of the case they saw nothing more that could be done that hadn't already been done if new
00:48:04
information came to light they would be waiting but they maintained there was insufficient evidence to take to court
00:48:11
Scotland Yard detective assistant commissioner bill Griffiths admitted it was a matter of great regret that the
00:48:17
original inquiry launched in 1986 had missed significant opportunities he said if these had been grasped at the time
00:48:25
and may have led us toward prosecution many years ago but that did not happen it was revealed that police involved in
00:48:33
the original inquiry did not check prisons for records have recently released sex offenders was also
00:48:38
confirmed that police had failed to act upon information supplied by Susie's parents about the man she was seeing
00:48:43
from Bristol just prior to her disappearance Susie's father Paul said we are greatly distressed and indeed
00:48:51
considerably angered after all these years it is still not possible to prosecute the person who both we and of
00:48:57
the police believes murdered Susie we have come to a conclusion that at this point in time we accept the situation
00:49:05
in November 2002 British police did something very unusual they held a press conference and named
00:49:12
John Kernan as the only suspect in the investigation into Suzy Lane blues killing they publicly acknowledged the
00:49:19
circumstantial evidence against him it was revealed that Suzy may have had a brief romance with Kenan who thence
00:49:25
thought her and took revenge when she dumped him information released in the early 2000s revealed that in the
00:49:32
immediate lead-up to Suzy's disappearance cannon often ignored the hostile curfew and cruised the bars of
00:49:37
Fulham at night to chat out women before returning to the hostel drunk and climbing in through an open window Canon
00:49:44
has denied in police interviews ever visiting form but he's former workmates insist he often bragged about
00:49:49
girlfriends he met there he told colleagues and acquaintances that he liked attractive professional and fun
00:49:56
types well-dressed well-educated well-spoken women in business suits particularly
00:50:02
navy pleated skirts one former colleague told police that cannon had spoken of one special girlfriend in Fulham
00:50:08
police strongly believe cannon was the exciting new man Suzy spoke off to her family but whom they never met who she
00:50:16
went on to say she was having problems with days before Suzy disappeared a young woman working near canons
00:50:23
workplace at the props hire business was approached by men whom police believed to be connect he said he had seen her
00:50:29
through the window and asked her out for dinner she declined politely Kanin left
00:50:35
only to return later with several bouquets of flowers according to his former lovers this was kannon's modus
00:50:41
operandi Kenan wrote letters from prison to criminologist and author Christopher
00:50:47
Barry d boasting that chocolates champagne and roses a ways of saying I love you and never have I felt
00:50:53
embarrassed about buying them or saying those words according to police Canon had the ability to charm women to a
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point of near total control and statements from former girlfriends speak of his passion for motor racing and how
00:51:06
we grew them with champagne and red roses before turning nasty and exacting revenge if he was rejected
00:51:12
remember Suzy told her mother that her mystery man from Bristol had taken her motor racing
00:51:19
the suffix strangle our Steve Wright who was jailed in 2006 for the murder of five women who worked as sex workers was
00:51:27
also investigated at one time it was discovered that he had worked with Suzie when she worked as a beautician aboard
00:51:33
the luxury ship the qe2 in the early eighties Suzie and right were acquaintances and regularly met up after
00:51:40
working together on the ship but no evidence was found linking him to Suzy's disappearance and it was chalked up to
00:51:46
nothing other than a bizarre coincidence in 2009 the remains of hospital worker Melanie Hall from Bath were found in a
00:51:55
bin bag near the m5 in Bristol 13 years after she went missing from outside a nightclub police initially linked can
00:52:02
and to her disappearance in the late 90s when an informant told investigators that cannon and fellow inmate
00:52:07
Christopher Clark were talking about the perfect abduction in prison Clarke was released soon after then Melanie Hall
00:52:14
disappeared the theory is that Clarke abducted and murdered Melanie Hall after he was released and Canion helped
00:52:21
orchestrate it from behind bars Clarke was interviewed but not charged due to a lack of evidence but one month later
00:52:28
Clarke attacked another woman in bath and was jailed for life this has never been proven it was only speculation and
00:52:35
several other arrests were made after Clarke in relation to the disappearance of Melanie Hall the case still remains
00:52:41
unsolved though in August 2010 someone came forward to say they had seen a mound of Earth
00:52:49
around the time Suzy disappeared at a site previously searched by officers in Worcester the area is about three miles
00:52:55
away from the former Norton barracks which was searched previously Scotland Yard officers used ground-penetrating
00:53:01
radar to comb the site which they confirmed had been previously searched in connection with inquiry this renewed
00:53:08
hope 24 years after Suzy vanished without a trace quietly faded when again nothing was
00:53:14
found the Suzy Glen polluter trust went from strength to strength and became a full-time venture for the lamp loose
00:53:20
they still continue to help people avoid becoming victims of aggression and offer
00:53:25
counseling and support to relatives and friends of missing people in 2010 the charity set up the National stalking
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helpline which gives advice to thousands of people every year who are victims of
00:53:35
stalking diana was appointed OBE in 1992 for her work with the trust ovae stands
00:53:42
for officer of the most excellent Order of the British Empire and is a Queen's honour given to an individual for a
00:53:48
major local role in any activities such as business charity or the public sector
00:53:53
she was also awarded for honorary doctorates for her work and her and Paul also received the beacon prize for
00:54:00
leadership in personal safety diana wrote many books training manuals and articles Diana died in August 2011
00:54:09
having suffered a serious stroke the previous year and also being diagnosed with our Zyliss disease
00:54:15
she was 75 years old and died without answers to her daughter's disappearance but believe the right man was behind
00:54:21
bars regardless 30 years on Suzie's 85 year old father Paul in blue is beginning to lose hope that the case
00:54:29
will ever be solved he said I don't have very much hope that all find out what happened
00:54:35
I miss Suzy more now I think the older I get I miss her Suzy did know how to live
00:54:41
life fully but no one taught her how to be safe lead investigator of the reinvestigation Jim Dickie believes that
00:54:49
Jon cannons thought Suzy he may have had some contact and that his wife Suzy spoke of the new men with Bristol
00:54:55
connections he may have even taken Suzy on a date and they likely spoke on the phone it was probable Canion had viewed
00:55:02
other properties with Suzy possibly playing a character who was more well off than he actually was bringing a
00:55:08
bottle of champagne along to share with her on that day Jeanine was wooing her in his usual fashion Suzy was planning
00:55:15
to break it off for at least cool it down but John cannon didn't like rejection during a meeting Kinnear had
00:55:22
with his solicitor in 2002 he said I'm a tell all when my mother dies he will be
00:55:29
eligible for parole in six years time 2023 when he's 65 years old he can only be released if the parole board rules
00:55:37
that he is no longer a serious danger to the public [Music] you