UK UK- Doris Shelley, 82, died 11 days after being attacked w. a blunt instrument, kicked & punched, @ home, Martlesham, Suffolk, 11 Feb; 1993,

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2023

30 years on from unsolved murder of 82-year-old Doris Shelley

Thirty years ago, tragedy struck as 82-year-old Doris Shelley was discovered covered in blood and cowering against her stove following a raid…

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''Thirty years ago, tragedy struck as an 82-year-old woman was discovered covered in blood, cowering against her stove following a raid on her Martlesham bungalow.

She died 11 days later and her murder remains a mystery to this day, with Suffolk police continuing to search for new clues in the investigation.

On February 11, 1993, a concerned neighbour broke in through a window and found Doris Shelley, 82, in a dazed and confused state.
Covered in her own blood from an attack with a blunt object, Mrs Shelley lost consciousness upon being discovered and died in a hospital bed on February 22.''
Police determined that, sometime between 2pm on Wednesday, February 10 and 12:45pm on Thursday, February 11, an unknown person or persons had broken into the property possibly through a bedroom window.
Just 18 months earlier, Mrs Shelley was the victim of a violent robbery at her home in which £12,637 was stolen.''

2019 rbbm.

Doris Shelley: Police lead in Martlesham 1993 murder case ruled out

Doris Shelley, 82, was attacked with a blunt instrument and kicked and punched at her bungalow.

www.bbc.com

''Doris Shelley was attacked with a blunt instrument and kicked and punched at her bungalow in Martlesham, Suffolk.''

''As part of the 25th anniversary case review, police looked again at 397 exhibits taken during the original investigation.
These included household objects which might have been touched by the offender, Mrs Shelley's clothing and items taken from people under arrest.''

 

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Starting @ approx. 2:10.

Nov 12, 2018
Sue Cook and Nick Ross present. Cases include the murder of Doris Shelley in Martlesham, Suffolk, a robbery in which two police officer were shot in Poole, Dorset, a robbery in Exeter and the murder of Richard Miles in Newtown, Stroud, Gloucestershire.

 

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Cross posting from the Edna Mary Ann Harvey thread:

Perhaps the recently arrested Ryland Headley? He's believed to have been prolific and lived in Ipswich.



He is now charged with murdering and sexually assaulting an elderly woman in Bristol in 1967, apparently investigators are using a wide net to look for possible new victims.

From the BBC:

Could man behind UK's oldest cold case murder have more victims?

Ryland Headley was convicted of killing Louisa Dunne almost six decades after the crime took place.

www.bbc.co.uk

Ten years later, Headley would admit the rapes of two other women, aged 84 and 79, in Ipswich and ask for 10 other burglaries to be taken into account when he was sentenced.
The victims of his burglaries were always the same - elderly or middle aged women living alone.

 

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rbbm 2018

Officers receive tip off into unsolved murder of 82-year-old Doris Shelley at her home in Martlesham

Officers have received a tip off into the unsolved brutal murder of an 82-year-old woman in her home.

www.eadt.co.uk

''That May, the murder featured on BBC’s Crimewatch, prompting 50 calls and two photofits of men seen loitering around the home in the days leading up to the attack.

One was aged 25-30, stocky, 6ft, with collar length wavy brown hair growing into dreadlocks. He was seen on February 8, 9 and 10.

The second was about 40, 5ft 10in, slim, with dark brown hair and a fair complexion, carrying a Halfords bag and seen near the A12 roundabout underpass.

Police also looked for the driver of a red Ford Sierra-type car seen on Mrs Shelley’s driveway on the last day she was seen alive.

At one stage, her death was linked to a similar attack on the Eyke postmistress on September 10, 1992.

The Post Office had already been targeted by robbers four months earlier, on May 19.''