Lolly's True Crime World

  Who Killed Michelle Bettles This is the first in a series of articles reviewing the unsolved murders of sex workers in Norfolk and Suffolk, England. I will be looking at the mysterious killings and some of the reasons why these young women lost their lives and who may have been responsible 22-year-old Michelle Bettles was the third prostitute to disappear from Norwich's red-light district and be found murdered  Michelle Bettles was a sex worker plying her trade on the streets of Norwich, England in the early hours of Friday 29th March 2002, when she suddenly disappeared.  She failed to keep a pre-arranged appointment in the Dereham Road area of Norwich with a regular client. This was very unusual for Michelle, who regularly kept to arrangements and met her punters promptly. On this occasion, it seems that Michelle did not even intend to keep the appointment as she was last seen heading in completely the opposite direction to where she was supposed to meet. Michelle was 22 when sh

  Luke Mitchell Innocent After All? Jodi Jones was just fourteen when she was viciously murdered This case has recently come back into the news after a UK television station, Channel five broadcast a rather controversial documentary mini-series reviewing the case from 2003.  The documentary "Murder in a small town" claims that it is physically impossible for Luke Mitchell to have committed the murder and that has to say the least sparked some serious controversy.  Let me just make it absolutely clear that we are in no way injustice campaigners, neither are we following a particular line of belief here. We merely delight in seeing the truth told and justice served. So to the case in question: 14-year-old Jodi Jones was brutally murdered on June 30th 2003 in Easthouses, Dalkeith, Scotland. Her badly mutilated body was discovered around 10.30pm in some woodland area, behind a high wall quite close to her home. She had been stripped, bound, suffered multiple stab wounds and almos

  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

  Suzy Lamplugh - Time For The Truth Estate agent Suzy Lamplugh vanished after leaving her office on July 28th 1986 Welcome back to my study of the case of missing Suzy Lamplugh, who disappeared after leaving the estate agency where she worked in Fulham, London. Despite huge searches and the passing of time no trace of her has ever been found. Over the past weeks, my team and I have begun to really look carefully at the whole story from scratch, identify the failings of the enquiries that have spanned the years and try to make sense of the case. Before I go any further I want to say that I feel this case has long since ceased to be about getting justice for Suzy and her family and has become a free-for-all by authors of books, desperate to sell their stories and people worried about the truth coming to the surface so they work doubly hard to put one name in the frame and keep a man in prison, in hope that will suffice. That just makes me angry and disappointed, a twenty-five-year-old w