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I would rather like to face a very old ghost of mine.
When I was little there was a very unpleasant murder on the news that really upset and scared me. It must have been around 1975-77, and possibly in the Midlands. I remember it as being near to where I lived (Bucks/Beds border) but that may have just been because it scared me.
As best I remember it, a young girl was on her way to a party one evening when she was attacked, stripped, and tied up in a bonfire, and burnt to death.
The murderer was on the loose for a few weeks, during which my friends and I were all very scared. This was the first news story that I had really taken in and been affected by. I was around 8 years old at the time.
Then one night, after I had gone to bed, my father called me down so I could watch the news report that they had caught the killer.
It is not that this story really haunted me or anything, I grew up to be rather interested in true crime (hey, I am posting on Ripper boards!). But I would like to read about the crime as an adult simply so I can dismiss the very exaggerated "bogey man" version that I have in my head from my childhood.
Does anyone know more about this crime, please? I may have got some of the facts wrong. This was a massive thing to an 8 year old with an over excited imagination and I thought about it for quite a few years, no doubt changing things in my head.
When I was little there was a very unpleasant murder on the news that really upset and scared me. It must have been around 1975-77, and possibly in the Midlands. I remember it as being near to where I lived (Bucks/Beds border) but that may have just been because it scared me.
As best I remember it, a young girl was on her way to a party one evening when she was attacked, stripped, and tied up in a bonfire, and burnt to death.
The murderer was on the loose for a few weeks, during which my friends and I were all very scared. This was the first news story that I had really taken in and been affected by. I was around 8 years old at the time.
Then one night, after I had gone to bed, my father called me down so I could watch the news report that they had caught the killer.
It is not that this story really haunted me or anything, I grew up to be rather interested in true crime (hey, I am posting on Ripper boards!). But I would like to read about the crime as an adult simply so I can dismiss the very exaggerated "bogey man" version that I have in my head from my childhood.
Does anyone know more about this crime, please? I may have got some of the facts wrong. This was a massive thing to an 8 year old with an over excited imagination and I thought about it for quite a few years, no doubt changing things in my head.
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