If Carruthers and Yeats murders linked killer is aged around 58
Friday, January 07, 2011 | Comments: 0
When cold case detectives decided to have another look at the docket of Glenis Carruthers, a student from Bedford who was murdered on January 19, 1974, they never realised that they were working on a case that might be linked to one which has attracted national and international attention.
In the 21st century by dint of television, the Internet and international newspapers, what was once considered local news now attracts a global audience.
So it should come as no surprise that the murder of local landscape architect Joanna Yeates is a worldwide rather than just a UK case in terms of media attention.
This one like the death of honeymoon bride Anni Dewani has caught the imagination of the public.
Glenis Carruthers
According to the Avon and Somerset Police website Glenis travelled from Bedford, where she was a student, to attend a friend's 21st Birthday party on Worcester Crescent in Clifton, Bristol.
At around 10.20pm she left the party and was spotted just after 11.00pm on the Clifton Downs. The witness thought he saw a courting couple on the grass but shortly thereafter her body was discovered ; she had been strangled to death.
The witness described the man as white, between 20 to 25 years old; around 5ft 10inches tall in height, medium build, with brown shoulder length hair. He was wearing a three-quarter length coat and a denim type cap.
Over the last 36 years this case has been reviewed twice and further items are being submitted to the Forensic Science Service for further examination.
The Daily Mirror has an easy to follow little map of the area which shows that the party that Glenis attended in 1974 was just 350 metres from Jo Yeates’ flat.
If the killer is the same man then you are looking at a white male, aged 56 to 61, 5ft 10 inches tall with grey-brown/grey hair or balding but his build could be anything by now. Also there is a good chance that he has lived in or around the area for at least the past 3 to 4 decades.
Joanna Yeats
The 25-year-old architect went missing on December 17 after drinks with her colleagues at a pub in Bristol. Joanna was seen leaving the Ram pub in Park Street at about 20h00 and on her way home she stopped at a Waitrose - where there are CCTV images - before contacting a friend with whom she was meant to spend Christmas Eve.
She then went into Tesco Express on Regent Street where she bought a pizza.
Police believe that Joanna did make it home because her coat, keys and mobile phone were later found in her empty apartment.
Upon his return from visiting family in Sheffield on December 19 Greg Reardon, also an architect and Jo's boyfriend, reported her disappearance to the police.
On the day that Joanna vanished one of the neighbours stepped out of a party held opposite her flat to have a cigarette and heard screams.
Police have conducted a painstaking forensic search of the property and have taken DNA samples from other tenants.
On Christmas Day a couple walking their dogs in the Failand area of North Somerset came across the gruesome discovery of Joanna’s body and contacted the police.
A few days later a retired public school teacher, who had claimed to have seen 2 people with Joanna at the building in Canynge Road in the Clifton area of Bristol on the night she disappeared, was arrested.
Chris Jefferies said that it occured while he was parking his car but later tried to retract what he had said or refused to respond to questions about his claims.
Her body was found with one sock and police want to know whether she was strangled with her own sock at home with the killer keeping the long grey ski sock as a trophy.
There also also some very poor quality CCTV images which police believe might be her.
Overlap
Firstly the distance between the 2 attacks may be as little as 350 metres apart.
Secondly both were strangled which makes this a very personal crime. It takes the culprit right up to the victim and endures for around 3 minutes.
Thirdly in both cases the perpetrator waited for his prey to be separated from the herd similar to lions and leopards hunting bigger animals. As soon as one of the herd are injured, too young to fight or simply on their own the big cats will strike.
Fourthly the victims were both young, attractive and female.
Fifthly although the method of strangling the victim is personal the chances are both were probably strangers or relatively unknown to the killer. Glenis came up for a party from Bedford and was attacked outside in all likelihood because she was there and alone.
Funnily enough Joanna was also killed while there was a party across from her flat while she was there and alone. The killer may be someone who only drinks at parties because he knows he might become homicidal. The one witness confirms hearing screams on the day.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to check the party guests of 1974 and the one of 2010 and see if there was an overlap?
A Route
The tie in between the two murders may end up being pure speculation which doesn’t solve the case.
The facty that there might be an overlap does not mean anyone should take their eye off all the other balls currently being investigated.
This is just one of the routes being followed by police out of a number and may lead to finding the culprit.
PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH THE POLICE!
In the 21st century by dint of television, the Internet and international newspapers, what was once considered local news now attracts a global audience.
So it should come as no surprise that the murder of local landscape architect Joanna Yeates is a worldwide rather than just a UK case in terms of media attention.
This one like the death of honeymoon bride Anni Dewani has caught the imagination of the public.
Glenis Carruthers
According to the Avon and Somerset Police website Glenis travelled from Bedford, where she was a student, to attend a friend's 21st Birthday party on Worcester Crescent in Clifton, Bristol.
At around 10.20pm she left the party and was spotted just after 11.00pm on the Clifton Downs. The witness thought he saw a courting couple on the grass but shortly thereafter her body was discovered ; she had been strangled to death.
The witness described the man as white, between 20 to 25 years old; around 5ft 10inches tall in height, medium build, with brown shoulder length hair. He was wearing a three-quarter length coat and a denim type cap.
Over the last 36 years this case has been reviewed twice and further items are being submitted to the Forensic Science Service for further examination.
The Daily Mirror has an easy to follow little map of the area which shows that the party that Glenis attended in 1974 was just 350 metres from Jo Yeates’ flat.
If the killer is the same man then you are looking at a white male, aged 56 to 61, 5ft 10 inches tall with grey-brown/grey hair or balding but his build could be anything by now. Also there is a good chance that he has lived in or around the area for at least the past 3 to 4 decades.
Joanna Yeats
The 25-year-old architect went missing on December 17 after drinks with her colleagues at a pub in Bristol. Joanna was seen leaving the Ram pub in Park Street at about 20h00 and on her way home she stopped at a Waitrose - where there are CCTV images - before contacting a friend with whom she was meant to spend Christmas Eve.
She then went into Tesco Express on Regent Street where she bought a pizza.
Police believe that Joanna did make it home because her coat, keys and mobile phone were later found in her empty apartment.
Upon his return from visiting family in Sheffield on December 19 Greg Reardon, also an architect and Jo's boyfriend, reported her disappearance to the police.
On the day that Joanna vanished one of the neighbours stepped out of a party held opposite her flat to have a cigarette and heard screams.
Police have conducted a painstaking forensic search of the property and have taken DNA samples from other tenants.
On Christmas Day a couple walking their dogs in the Failand area of North Somerset came across the gruesome discovery of Joanna’s body and contacted the police.
A few days later a retired public school teacher, who had claimed to have seen 2 people with Joanna at the building in Canynge Road in the Clifton area of Bristol on the night she disappeared, was arrested.
Chris Jefferies said that it occured while he was parking his car but later tried to retract what he had said or refused to respond to questions about his claims.
Her body was found with one sock and police want to know whether she was strangled with her own sock at home with the killer keeping the long grey ski sock as a trophy.
There also also some very poor quality CCTV images which police believe might be her.
Overlap
Firstly the distance between the 2 attacks may be as little as 350 metres apart.
Secondly both were strangled which makes this a very personal crime. It takes the culprit right up to the victim and endures for around 3 minutes.
Thirdly in both cases the perpetrator waited for his prey to be separated from the herd similar to lions and leopards hunting bigger animals. As soon as one of the herd are injured, too young to fight or simply on their own the big cats will strike.
Fourthly the victims were both young, attractive and female.
Fifthly although the method of strangling the victim is personal the chances are both were probably strangers or relatively unknown to the killer. Glenis came up for a party from Bedford and was attacked outside in all likelihood because she was there and alone.
Funnily enough Joanna was also killed while there was a party across from her flat while she was there and alone. The killer may be someone who only drinks at parties because he knows he might become homicidal. The one witness confirms hearing screams on the day.
Wouldn’t it be interesting to check the party guests of 1974 and the one of 2010 and see if there was an overlap?
A Route
The tie in between the two murders may end up being pure speculation which doesn’t solve the case.
The facty that there might be an overlap does not mean anyone should take their eye off all the other balls currently being investigated.
This is just one of the routes being followed by police out of a number and may lead to finding the culprit.
PLEASE BE PATIENT WITH THE POLICE!
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