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Did Jo buy dinner for her killer? As the Mail reconstructs her fateful final journey, an intriguing new theory
Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/art...r-Did-Jo-buy-dinner-killer.html#ixzz1AORqwLe7
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‘Joanna was a good-looking girl and in a busy office such as the one where she worked, there’s often someone who fancies you from afar,’ [retired regional crime squad chief Brian Theobald] says.
‘Then again, he may have met her in another way, but if I was a betting man, I would say it was someone who knew her. Learning she would be alone, he may have called on her soon after she got home, and something *happened as she opened the door.
‘There was then an altercation, and he panicked and strangled her, *perhaps with the sock; very few *murders are planned.’
Hoping it would help conceal his identity to dispose of Joanna’s body — Mr Theobald’s theory runs — the killer dragged her into his car. He apparently possessed local knowledge, for he headed towards the open country of north Somerset, his most likely route being over the nearby Clifton suspension bridge — assuming he had change for the 50p toll.
Had he known the area really well, however, he would probably not have turned down Longwood Lane, but taken the opposite fork of the T-junction.
‘If he had hidden her body down there, she might never have been found,’ Mr Theobald told me this week, as we ventured for miles along the lane. Gazing at the tangled woodlands *bordering the road, I saw his point.