Inside chilling cold case murder of 16-year-old girl Jacqueline Johns
Jacqueline Johns, 16, was found dead in London on October 1, 1973 - and almost 51 years on her murder has never been solved and no suspect found.
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10 August 2024
''Pretty as a picture in a bright yellow dress, 16-year-old Jacqueline Johns grinned cheekily and waved to the bride as she rushed from the reception to get her last train home.
The shy insurance clerk had thanked Susan Baynes for the 'lovely time' she had at the wedding on the Essex Riviera and happily bustled from the door tottering on her platform shoes.
Jacqueline's destination was home in Thornton Heath, South London, but she never made it and hours after she said a cheery farewell to the bride, her life was cruelly snuffed out.''
''The teenager's body had been stripped of clothing and dumped in a railway siding in the shadow of Battersea Power Station, across the Thames from where she was last seen at Victoria Station.
Jackie was raped and strangled. The bright lemon-coloured dress she wore was missing, as was the sheepskin coat borrowed from her sister. Only her yellow and blue shoes were found tossed away nearby.
The date of that horrifying discovery was October 1, 1973 - and almost 51 years on her murder has never been solved.''
Her naked body was found on a railway siding close to Chelsea Bridge, in the shadow of London's famous Battersea Power Station. The area was an industrial area in the 1970s - today it is one of the most exclusive areas in the capital. The warehouse area where he body was found is now luxury flats overlooking the river