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Sep 2018
22m 13s

Kent: The Tunbridge Wells Bedsit Murders

Crime+Investigation
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In 1987 in Tunbridge Wells, just south of Dartford, two young women were murdered five months apart. Both lived alone in bedsits less than a mile from one another, both worked on Camden Road, both ate lunch at the same cafe. The women didn’t know each other, but they will forever be remembered together for their murderer was never caught. In 2007, with advances in forensics, a full DNA profile was obtained from minute evidence from one of the crime scenes. But would the killer be caught or is he still out there?


Following each episode of Katherine Kelly's brand new TV series Murdertown, Benjamin Fitton from They Walk Among Us unpicks a new case from each location. Watch Murdertown exclusively on Crime+Investigation in the UK every Monday at 9pm from 3rd September and then straight after listen to a brand new story right here with the Murdertown podcast. You can get in touch using #Murdertown on Twitter, Facebook or Instagram.


Crime+Investigation's Murdertown podcast is hosted by Benjamin Fitton, written by Anna Priestland, produced by Sam Pearson and Chloe Frost, and edited by James Collopy.


SOURCES


2007 APPEAL:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8453919.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6957446.stm

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6954760.stm


25 YEAR ANNIVERSARY:

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/serial-killer-murdered-wendy-knell-905508

https://www.heart.co.uk/kent/news/local/appeal-over-25-year-old-murder/

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-18532610

https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/serial-killer-murdered-wendy-knell-905508

www.mirror.co.uk/news/serial-killer-murdered-wendy-knell-905508.amp


BLOG:

http://wolfiewiseguy.blogspot.com/2014/07/the-unsolved-murders-of-wendy-knell.html


CRIMEWATCH:

https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/crimewatch-coming-end-two-shocking-local-cases-appear-show-one-yet-solved/


DNA:

The Guardian: Case Closed 17th Jan 2008

https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/jan/16/ukcrime.forensicscience


PCR:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polymerase_chain_reaction


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