UK UK- Edna Mary Ann Harvey, 87, strangled and her body set alight on her mattress, @ home, Finchley Road, Ipswich, August 28,1984.

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https://www.suffolk.police.uk/news/suffolk/news/unsolved-cases/edna-harvey/

With the progression of Forensic Science over the last sixteen years the murder of Edna Harvey has been reviewed many times.

2014

Edna Harvey murder: Police re-appeal after 30 years

Detectives renew their appeal for information after an 87-year-old woman was strangled and her body set alight on her mattress 30 years ago.

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''Detectives are renewing their appeal for information after an 87-year-old woman was strangled and her body set alight on her mattress 30 years ago.

Edna Harvey was found dead in her ground floor flat in Finchley Road, Ipswich, on 28 August 1984.

Evidence showed the property had been searched but it was unclear if anything had been stolen.

It is hoped advances in technology and forensics will lead to finding the killer, police said.''

"The motive may have been that this was a burglary which went horribly wrong, but we keep an open mind.

"Edna lived a relatively reclusive lifestyle due to poor eyesight and didn't possess anything of any real value.''

 

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

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.

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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.

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.

 

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

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

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.

He was jailed in 1978 for 7 years (Initially life but reduced to 7 years on appeal). If he served his full sentence then he would of still been in prison. Had a search but can't find anything to confirm or deny he spent 7 years in jail, just that he was released in the 1980s.