On a cold and foggy night in November 1967 Rita Ellis made her way across a road to an awaiting red car. The 19 year old then disappeared into the gloom and was never seen alive again. Rita was a cook at RAF Halton in Herefordshire and lived in the women’s accommodation block onsite. That evening she had arranged to babysit for Wing Commander Watson but she failed to turn up for the appointment. Her strangled body was found the next morning on the western edges of the RAF camp. Less than two months later a 20 year woman was left for dead after being brutally assaulted and police feared a psychopath was on the loose.

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British Newspaper Archive 

Coventry Evening Telegraph 
15/11/67
02/01/68
03/01/68
05/01/68
Daily Mirror
13/11/67
14/11/67
03/01/68
17/05/68
Sunday Mirror
07/01/68
Reading Evening Post
13/11/67
06/01/68
Liverpool Echo
23/11/67
Bristol Evening Post
30/12/67
Aberdeen Press and Journal
13/11/67
09/01/68
Buckinghamshire Examiner
05/01/68
Nottingham Evening Post
06/01/68

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BuckinghamshireLivehttps://www.buckinghamshirelive.com › ...Rita Ellis: A savage murder, a cold case and a sealed file

TheScottishSunhttps://www.thescottishsun.co.uk › ...I'm convinced I met Bible John, I didn't make the link until I saw new photofit of ..

Channel 4https://www.channel4.com › on-de...In the Footsteps of Killers - Series 1: Episode 3

BBChttps://www.bbc.co.uk › news › uk-...Airwoman Rita Ellis 1967 murder: Crimewatch appeal turns up 'new ...

HertfordshireMercurywww.hertfordshiremercury.co.ukThe horrific unsolved murder of girl found covered in leaves

TheGuardianhttps://www.theguardian.com › novSister appeals for new information in 1967 murder of Rita Ellis | UK news

https://lollytruecrime.medium.com/unsolved-murder-at-raf-halton-1967-e687ae5db2aa

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