UK UK- Janet Brown, 51, research nurse, found nude, gagged, handcuffed & bludgeoned to death, @ home, Buckinghamshire,10 April '95, *DNA, new initiative*

[forensicswannabe]

I've actually been wondering if the killer could have been one of Roxanne's male friends/ex Boyfriend's? Maybe he grew an infatuation with Janet, it's possible.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

I've actually been wondering if the killer could have been one of Roxanne's male friends/ex Boyfriend's? Maybe he grew an infatuation with Janet, it's possible.

It could equally have been one of Zara's ex boy friends. There is a picture of Janet and Zara (when Zara was younger) where they look very similar.

Buckinghamshire: 'Mum was handcuffed and bludgeoned to death'

Either way, surely he would certainly have expected Roxanne to be at home, unless police are mistaken after investigating the small number of people who knew about the sleepover. (Another possibility is that it was Janet who told someone about the sleepover. For example, if the horse rider is correct to say she saw Janet driving earlier in the evening, Janet might have bumped into someone wherever it was she went and mentioned the sleepover.)

If the killer had asked Janet where Roxanne was and she said that she was at a sleepover, he might well have accepted the truth of that.

If the killer was an ex boyfriend of one of the daughters, he would probably have been known to Janet and he would have been committed to killing her for that reason.

 

[Professor Moriarty]

A new video. No new commentary, but some photos that people might not have seen. Accurate, unlike some awful videos on youtube, mainly American ones. (It did describe Zara as at university,like her brother, when she had actually graduated and was working in London, but that was a minor error.)

The video refers to the murder of Carolanne Jackson. Every time I see a map showing the locations of JB's murder and that of Carolanne Jackson, I am always struck by the fact that High Wycombe is almost in the middle of a straight line between the two. Did the murderer of one, or both, of these ladies live in High Wycombe? If the murderer of JB did live there, relying on DNA and tracing people who lived in Radnage at the time of JB's murder will not solve this case.

(With regard to the question of why more glass was found outside the patio door than inside, I wonder if the intruder used some suction cup to pull the glass out, although it is difficult to account for how that would have worked when smashing the inner pane.)