UK UK - Genette Tate, 13, Devon England, Aug 1978

[RichardKimble]

well i dont think its was robert black becouse a body would of been found by now in allases involing black they found body an notein local to the area he wouldent know any good hiding places for it i suspect her dad could of done it m main suspect is a family friend who i hope to have more info on laterthe were conivcted off murder a few years after genete went missing

They were going to charge Black .

Killer Robert Black was to be charged with murder of Genette Tate

In the late Seventies, Genette Tate dominated newsstands across Britain, after she mysteriously disappeared into thin air. Years later, the man believed to be her killer has dodged justice.

www.dailymail.co.uk

 

[mrC]

is suspect they were only going to chardge blacck to getit off the books was tobe charged an actully charged are 2 diffrent things as are charged and convicted as black is now dead it makes perfect sense to try andd pin it on him

 

[SimsGuy67]

well i dont think its was robert black becouse a body would of been found by now in allases involing black they found body an notein local to the area he wouldent know any good hiding places for it i suspect her dad could of done it m main suspect is a family friend who i hope to have more info on laterthe were conivcted off murder a few years after genete went missing

Well, saying you think Genette's father or a family friend may have murdered her is a bold accusation. Do you have any proof for either?

I don't know much about Genette's case, but it just feels a bit strange to say that her father, who I can only assume has gone through so much grief over his daughter's murder/disappearance, could have been the one to murder her. Similar idea goes for the family friend. I'm not discounting the possibility, but I feel at least some possible evidence should be presented.

 

[mrC]

did you read the articale posted about her father above

 

[SimsGuy67]

did you read the articale posted about her father above

No, and that was my mistake. Based on what I do know other than that, I can't rule Black out as a suspect.

 

[mrC]

did robert black ever drive a maroon car the artists impression looks nothing like him THE DISAPPEARANCE OF GENETTE TATE

 

[mrC]

this makes rather disturbing reading The Devon dad who never escaped heartbreak of daughter's disappearance

 

[mrC]

this man is my top suspect he drove the same car described by witness and roughly fits e fit drawing SEX KILLER GETS £10K TO APPEAL

 

[trendsetter]

I have always been sceptical of the 'spinning wheel' that Genette's friends reported seeing when they came across her bicycle. I assumed that it had been a journalistic invention but the press may have been accurately reported what the girls had said. Either way, the motif could have come from the 1970 film And Soon the Darkness in which a young nurse on a cycling holiday is abducted and murdered. You can see the scene here:

 

[layer]

I have always been sceptical of the 'spinning wheel' that Genette's friends reported seeing when they came across her bicycle. I assumed that it had been a journalistic invention but the press may have been accurately reported what the girls had said.

Sadly, it has happened before. Mikelle Biggs comes to mind.

 

[mrC]

the 2 girls who cliamed to hae ound her bike made no mention of the maroon car seenby the other witness how they could of missed seeing it i they were where they cliamed to be is a bit of a mystory im suspecting the irls did not find the bike were they cliamed to have found it

 

[trendsetter]

A four-and-a-half minute clip from a BBC TV programme made shortly after the event: Genette mystery - as reported in 1978

 

[mrC]

haely anybody has ever heard of ian bealey i hadent untill i looked into this case i ind it ery strange that murder such as the one he comited dident get more publicity young stundent hitchikers geting murdered are normally all over the papers but most of the national press seemed to have missed this one

 

[sportstergirl]

Ian Bealey certainly warrants further investigation. He was also a friend of Genette's father & very likely knew her. I'm not so sure of Robert Black being responsible despite him being in the area. Genette was much older than his preferred victims. It's all to easy to find a handy bogeyman like Black & hang any unsolved murders & disappearances on him & call it "solved"!

 

[RichardKimble]

A four-and-a-half minute clip from a BBC TV programme made shortly after the event: Genette mystery - as reported in 1978

Black used a van, so if it's the coloured car which the driver photo fit doesn't match Black then it's likely not him.Another thing and I hadn't realised before is that GT was covering for a lad who was on holiday was it just for that day or a week ?