I have a few random questions that I feel would be interesting to find an answer to...
1) Suzy drove the white Fiesta to work, but she didn't use the vehicle again until after she left the office circa 12.30pm. When the vehicle was found in Stevenage road, it was said that the driver's seat was set further back; as though someone taller had driven it last. But was there any of Suzy's male colleagues who used the same car between the time she arrived at work, to the time she left circa 12.30pm? i.e. were there any other drivers of the Fiesta on that day apart from Suzy?
James Calvert, the officer junior, used it. He was about the same height as SJL.
2) What happened to the large sheeting that was in the back of the Fiesta just behind the driver's seat and in front of Suzy's hat?
Presumably placed there by the police while fingerprinting. Nobody else mentions it.
3) If Suzy had lost her personal belongings that included her cheque book, then why didn't she take the 2 minute walk from her flat in Disraeli road to the pub on the other side of the trainline, to pick them up before work?
The pub would not have been open. KH rang the bank that morning, the bank rang her and she rang the pub. Until that point she didn't know where the stuff was.
4) Between 2pm and 3.30pm, there were apparently no witnesses to confirm that the Fiesta was still in Stevenage Road. Could the car have been RE-PARKED by the killer in virtually the same spot as it was seen earlier?
Yes, or the earlier sighting was of a similar but different car. The Fiesta was the UK's best selling car and white was among the commoner colours. A schoolboy claimed to have seen the car at 12 noon, at which time SJL was in the office. This argues for two different cars.
5) When the witness came forward and said that a car similar to Suzy's, who driver was driving erratically and had almost drove into him in Kelvedon Road
I've a feeling this witness came forward 14 years later and thus has no idea what happened on 28/7/86.
6) If Suzy's car was found with just the driver's door unlocked, but the passenger door locked, then how did both Suzy and the man with her both get out of the car?
Good question. AS notes it was very difficult. For my money the driver got out and there was at that point no passenger. Someone returned to the car later to remove evidence.
7) There were alleged reports that there had been a man going around various estate agents, and calling himself Mr Kipper. But if this was John Cannan, then when did he find the time to do this?
He was on day release since January, had weekends off and the curfew was slack. It is very odd, though, that if this was true, we were never shown a sketch of these other Kipper sightings taken from other estate agency staff. Unless none ever met him.
8) If Suzy parked the car in Stevenage Road before going to 37SR to meet Mr Kipper, then how did she manage to do so in such a short time frame on foot?
Summarises the whole problem with the sightings. You have to decide whether HR is more reliable than WJ.
9) How did Mr Kipper know to go to 37SR?
She must have spoken to him that morning, or the previous evening, if that was where she was the previous night.
10) Why is there so much mystery and contradiction surrounding the alleged 6pm timing for Suzy to go and collect her lost personal belongings at the pub, when she had arguably her most important deal with a 6pm appointment with Joanna Wright at 43 Waldermar avenue?
The viewing at 6pm would have been a priority, and it was a timed appointment. It was already in her diary when she left at 12.40. She would thus not have told the PoW she would be there
at 6pm because she knew she had to be elsewhere. She might have said
after 6pm or she might have changed the time and gone there at 12.45, instead of going to 37SR (this is DV's hypothesis).
If anyone at the PoW had something to do with her disappearance, and if she went there at 12.45, the simplest answer to "did she ever turn up?" was "no, she wasn't expected till 6". In 1986, not having seen the diary all over the papers, that would seem logical, but by 1987, a bad actor at the PoW would know no such appointment was possible and that some other arrangement must have been made. This may explain why a year on, other calls about her to the pub were mentioned. Other explanations are possible.
11) Did Mr Kipper ask Suzy to go and look at further properties, including 123 Stevenage road, which was also for sale through Sturgis?
We don't know.
12) Is it significant that Suzy's company car was parked outside 123 Stevenage Road, and her last appointment in Waldermar Avenue, was located between Stevenage Road and the Sturgis office?
Probably not. All her appointments would have been within a mile or so. Anywhere could look fishily close to somewhere else.
13) Why did it appear that Suzy's boss was hiding something when he gave an interview on camera during the Crimewatch reconstruction?
Nervous at being on TV? I just thought he looked like the Kipper sketch - dark-haired late-20s yuppie in a suit.
14) Who is the tanned man seen on one of the Lamplugh's family photos, who closely resembles the description of Mr Kipper?
That's at the 21st on Saturday, and reputedly who SJL replaced AL with while the latter was on holiday.
15) Who placed Suzy's hat back on the rear of the car window? She was seen wearing it by Marianna in Stevenage Road, but why is there no sign of this hat, or the car, when Suzy is apparently seen outside 37SR?
We don't know.
16) Was the canal in Brentford searched thoroughly by the police after a witness claimed to have seen a man; who he was later convinced was Cannan, walking with a heavy suitcase along the canal path?
No, it's occasionally dredged and they figured that was enough. Some find the canal witness unpersuasive.
17) Where did Suzy go to use the bathroom between leaving the office, and being allegedly seen by various witnesses over the next few hours?
We don't know.
18) Did Suzy ever enter 37SR, or was the witness mistaken?
The police said nobody had been inside that day. Witness error. It's why the keys don't really matter. She never went in.
19) Did the bearded man who hailed a cab and who told the cab driver he had heard a man and woman arguing, ever come forward? If not, then why not?
He did not. Maybe he had no business being there at that time. Maybe he was "CV" dumping the car and planting a false trail. Maybe he didn't read newspapers or watch TV...
20) How did the killer leave with Suzy? If the alleged sighting of the BMW is wrong, then how did Suzy leave the area? It couldn't have been via her own car.
We don't know.
21) Did the killer have a bolt hole somewhere and subdue Suzy in a property local to the area, and the idea that Suzy was driven away, is completely wrong?
Possible. JC was mates with a lag who had a council flat nearby. The block had garages so he may have one of those too.
22) Does the BMW sighting provide us with the answer as to exactly how Suzy was abducted?
No, because we don't know how she was forced out of one car, into another and then to some house or other place and killed there.
