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  A Serial Killer or Coincidental Murder-Suicides? Seems likely that several elderly couples may have fallen victim to a serial killer There are at least three different police forces in The UK that believe they may be seeking a serial killer in connection with the violent deaths of five elderly couples in Northern England. A special investigation team has been set up by police to re-investigate a series of deaths that were originally believed to have been murder-suicides in Manchester, Cheshire and Cumbria. Stephanie Davies, a senior member of the coroner’s office in Cheshire has compiled a one-hundred-and-seventy-nine page secret report looking at the five murder-suicides in which she suggests that actually the killings were murder, plain and simple and in fact were most likely the work of a serial killer. The senior coroner says that there are “striking similarities” between the deaths of five couples between 1996 and 2011. In all five of the cases, it was originally said that t...

A Strange & Unsolved Mystery From Yorkshire This case has baffled many minds for almost 40 years A small headstone simply inscribed with the number 4601 marks the final resting place of an unknown female whose skeletal remains were found near to Sutton Bank in Yorkshire on Friday, August 28th 1981 after an anonymous phone call was made to the Thirsk Police. The male caller who refused to give any details saying that he could not reveal his identity due to matters of "National Security" gave the police an almost exact location for a badly decomposed body. The description of the location was "A lay-by on an unclassified road leading from Sutton Bank towards the villages of Scawton and Rievaulx" During the phone call, the man said "Near Scawton Moor House you will find a decomposed body among the willow herbs"  The road where the lay-by is located is in a rural location and used mainly by local people and caravanners on route to a nearby campsite. The sur...