UK Alan Leppard April 1991 and Brenda Long December 1991, Kent UK

[tes1984]

IIRC the police thought Brenda must have been murdered before Friday 27 December, or else she would have gone and paid the cheques in that day.

I think her work friends started to worry a little on the Saturday, when Brenda failed to turn up for an arranged social meet up.

 

[DFR3217]

IIRC the police thought Brenda must have been murdered before Friday 27 December, or else she would have gone and paid the cheques in that day.

I think her work friends started to worry a little on the Saturday, when Brenda failed to turn up for an arranged social meet up.

The They Walk Among Us podcast says her friends were worried about her not turning up somewhere. Jilted partners do get revenge with a contract killing, but the killing of Alan Leppard, with the ostentatious car would have probably been a bit expensive for an ex-wife, unless she could claim a lot of life insurance!!! I don't know the sliding scale of charges for contract killings, but there were two of them, and one of them went to the pub a couple of weeks before, and the ostentatious car, you'd expect them to charge more for that sort of service. That's my thinking why it wouldn't be an angry ex-wife, despite there being a number of them.

 

[davidt]

The They Walk Among Us podcast says her friends were worried about her not turning up somewhere. Jilted partners do get revenge with a contract killing, but the killing of Alan Leppard, with the ostentatious car would have probably been a bit expensive for an ex-wife, unless she could claim a lot of life insurance!!! I don't know the sliding scale of charges for contract killings, but there were two of them, and one of them went to the pub a couple of weeks before, and the ostentatious car, you'd expect them to charge more for that sort of service. That's my thinking why it wouldn't be an angry ex-wife, despite there being a number of them.

Not sure we know the man in tbe pub was one of the two in the car. Whoever he was he never came forward if not involved. Although of course there are several other possibilities for someone not coming forward that don't involve this particular crime.

 

[tes1984]

Depending on the 'hitman', the sliding scale of charges for contract killings went from a few hundred pounds up to tens of thousands.

 

[DFR3217]

Depending on the 'hitman', the sliding scale of charges for contract killings went from a few hundred pounds up to tens of thousands.

Acquiring car, disposing of car, hanging around for a few hours, must ramp up the cost a bit. The Robert Magill murder a few years later involved buying a car and disposing of one, I think that might have cost a fair bit.

 

[DFR3217]

The murders of Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold are appalling but also interesting. Like Alan Leppard and Brenda Long the police said they had no criminal connections, but their murders seem to have been carried out by organised criminals. The method of their murders is very different so seems unlikely it was done by the same people, but that they were seen as legitimate targets around this time suggests that the culture of organised crime in the late 80s/early 90s saw people like this as collateral damage they were willing to tolerate, in pursuit of crime. So tragic.

Execution style killing of couple decades ago in Essex still a mystery

On the 30th anniversary of their deaths, an investigation revealed that their executions had been linked to associates of the Kray twins

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