Ryland Headley evaded police over Louisa Dunne’s murder for 58 years. Then a single handprint brought him to justice
In 1967, Ryland Headley, who lived with his wife in the Bristol suburb of Montpelier, must have just fled the murder. He has done it for more than half a century.
However, despite a large human hunting, Headley, then 34 years old, 19,000 male and male, Mrs. Dunne’s house on the upper floor of a window to the left after the pressure of the palm pressure to see a meticulous operation to live outside the geographical area shifted the network.
Probably shaken by the close shaving, Headley soon took his family to London, then moved to Ipswich.
And later when the police in Bristol were declared cold, it turned out that Headley escaped justice.
This was the time until 2023, when a team of civil servants in the Avon and Somerset police had a great breakthrough in the unresolved murder, hoping that future progress in science could finally help break the case.
Firstly, using the latest technology currently available, they re -examined Mrs. Dunne’s blue skirt by creating a DNA profile that matched her DNA to the national database for an indifferent crime.
Last year, after his arrest, Headley provided traces of hand that a specialist had more than 25 features that matched the original 1967 pressure.
During his arrest, 92 -year -old Headley said to the detectives: orum I don’t know why he’s talking about. Very strange, very strange. ”
But so far the investigation has been steam, the sad expressions of the other two old women who were raped by Headley, and the creepy similarities between the lawsuits and the murder of Mrs. Dunne.
Headley was convicted of raping two victims in Suffolk 10 years after Mrs. Dunne’s death. He was initially sentenced to life imprisonment, but it was reduced to only seven years.
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After he was found guilty of killing and raping Mrs. Dunne in Bristol Crown Court on Monday, Davet Marchant Davey Marchant said that headley had escaped from the first murder investigation because he had escaped from the house to home.
However, he added: “In the 1960s, the comprehensive and meticulous work carried out by Bristol Constabulary and civil servants opened the way for our investigations today.
“This was a comprehensive police investigation that saw pressure from more than 19,000 men to find Louisa’s killer. This was in addition to breaking records of 1,300 statements and more than 8,000 houses.
“Ryland Headley left the heritage of misery and pain through discomfort, and probably thought that the officers had escaped from the murder of Louisa until last November.
“Crimes of this size should never be unpunished and we are cruel to do our best to advance other murder cases that have not been solved in the Avon and Somerset region.”
Monday’s Dunne family’s jury’s decision on Monday brought justice that is too late for some of those who knew him.
“He is deeply upset that all people who know and love Louisa are not here to see justice.” He said.
Det Insp Marchant said that the forces throughout the country have now examined whether Headley is linked to other unresolved crimes.
