Oldest Cold Case Murder in The Thames Valley
Unsolved Murder at RAF Halton 1967 !9-year-old Rita Ellis murdered on 11th November 1967 Rita Ellis was serving in the Women's Royal Air Force based at RAF Halton, between the towns of Tring and Wendover in Buckinghamshire, England when she was found dead by a dog walker early on Sunday morning 12th November 1967. She joined the RAF in April 1967 and completed her initial training at RAF Spittlegate in Grantham, Lincolnshire before being stationed at Halton in June 1967. Her body, naked from the waist down, was found covered by leaves at Rawbourgh Copse, part of the military installation. She had been sexually assaulted, suffered a great deal of bruising to her body and face and strangled with her own underwear, which of course makes the killing sexually motivated. Buckinghamshire police took up the initial investigation but, it was soon taken control of by New Scotland Yard. There had been two big functions on the base on the night of November 11th 1967, one was a bingo night