Posted on 06/30/2025 10:41:04 AM PDT by RandFan
A 92-year-old man has been found guilty of the rape and murder of a Bristol woman in a case that remained unsolved for nearly six decades.
Louisa Dunne, 75, was found strangled on her living room floor by a neighbour on Britannia Road in Easton, Bristol, on 28 June 1967.
Convicted rapist Ryland Headley, of Clarence Road in Ipswich, has now been found guilty of Mrs Dunne's murder following a trial at Bristol Crown Court.
Senior investigating officer Det Insp Dave Marchant said Headley, who was in his 30s when he killed Mrs Dunne, had left "a legacy of misery and pain".
Despite the efforts of police investigating Mrs Dunne's death 58 years ago, no key suspect was identified.
Police collected about 19,000 prints from men and boys at the time with no success. They also made about 8,000 house-to-house inquiries and took 2,000 statements.
It was only when the case was re-examined by Avon and Somerset Police decades later that DNA testing of a swab that contained semen was linked to Headley.
Det Insp Marchant called him a "dangerous serial offender" with a "shocking and abhorrent history" and said there was a sense of "gravity" when police were told of the positive result.
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Credit to detectives! Justice will always catch up with you.
BACK THE BLUE
What’s he going to get? Life?
Are we sure it wasn’t Hedley Lamarr?................
So, he’s already a convicted rapist? Weird. I don’t want to sound too cynical, but it would be convenient to “solve” a cold case simply by convicting a man already at death’s door, and already convicted of the same crime - especially if he’s already in prison (assuming he is).
Harold Wilson’s fault.
Well, certainly it wasn’t Heddy!
What can you tell us about the year 1967?
6 decades almost
Another world....
You watch he’ll be out in 20 years!!
And how many convictions for Grooming Gang animals raping British children?
hmmmmm?
Still waiting . . .
There have been convictions recently - 20 years late but it’s happening
There was a very big cover-up
“What can you tell us about the year 1967?”
The government was routinely lying. That hasn’t changed.
I hope I can hear more even if hazy
... Nostalgic thread
There was a "Blondie" strip once where Dagwood was mistakenly taken in for questioning by the police and they ask him what he was doing on a certain date many years in the past.
But Biden was too frail to be held to account for his crimes.
Probably won’t see jail.
I didn't know that they had investigators that specialized in geriatric cases.
Nice but the UK lamer/chickenshit police should be going after todays criminals. Most of them immigrants. But the police there are too lazy and are fearful of going out in the field to do proper investigations. They are scared of bodily harm by these psycho-migrants. Many who carry knives.
Too many fat useless lady-policemen who are physically incapable of engaging with UK migrant criminals.
Well said.
I can remember some things I did in 1967 but could not tell you for sure where I was on June 28 of that year (most likely at my parents’ house)...
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I know exactly where I was... I was at home on the farm and at some point during the day, I was discussing what was going on in Israel with my Dad. On June 28, 1967, Israel formally annexed East Jerusalem following the Six-Day War. My Dad was watching the Six-Day war like a hawk as he figured that outside of the birth of Israel, this was the most important event in his lifetime that pertained to the eschatology laid out in Scripture.
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