UK Yvonne Fitt, Leeds, 12 Sep 1992, *Appeal for tip* 12 Sep 2019

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Cold case detectives investigating a 27-year-old historic murder are appealing for a caller who could hold vital information about the death to come forward.

The last confirmed sighting of Leeds woman , was on January 16 in Bradford.

Her body was found at local beauty spot, Lindley Wood, just outside of Otley on September 12 1992.

It is thought she had been dead some time.

She had been murdered.

Since then detectives have continued to investigate her death – including a full reconstruction on BBC programme, Crimewatch but no one has ever been brought to justice for her death.

And as part of a full review by West Yorkshire Police, officers want to speak to a caller to the Crimewatch show which was broadcast in 1992.

The anonymous caller gave the name of someone they suspected to be involved with the murder.
Cold case detectives appeal for information over 1992 murder

 

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''Cold cases reopened​

As a direct result of the Tiernan murder inquiry, West Yorkshire Police reopened the murder investigations of:

• Deborah Alison Wood (aged 20) whose body was found burning near Burley Park Station, Leeds, in January 1996. Police believe her body had been kept in cold storage. She was found wrapped in bin bags and bedding.
• Yvonne Fitt (aged 33) whose body was found in Lindley Woods in September 1992. She had been missing since January 1992.
• Lindsay Rimer (aged 13) who disappeared not far from her home in Hebden Bridge in November 1994. Her body was found at the bottom of a canal two miles from her home five months later. The cause of death was strangulation.
• Rebecca Hall (aged 19) who disappeared 13 April 2001. Her body was found in an alley behind a car park in Bradford on 26 April 2001.

Strathclyde Police reopened the murder investigations of five Glasgow prostitutes:

• Diane McInally (aged 23), who was murdered in October 1991.
• Karen McGregor (aged 26), who was murdered in April 1993.
• Leona McGovern (aged 22), who was murdered in June 1995.
• Marjorie Roberts (aged 34), who was murdered in August 1995.
• Tracey Wylde (aged 21), who was murdered in November 1997.

Police also identified Taylor as a suspect in the attempted murder of 27-year-old Glasgow prostitute Alison Wallace in July 2000.''

 

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@ 14:40 Host begins segment on Yvonne by appealing to men who visit prostitutes or use drugs.

 

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Yvonne Fitt​

The final confirmed sighting of single Leeds mum Yvonne Fitt was in Bradford on January 16, 1992. Eight months later, her decomposing body was found hidden in a shallow grave at Norwood Edge, Lindley Wood, around six miles outside Otley, by a man out picking mushrooms.

It is thought that she had been dead for some time, possibly several months. It was established she had been stabbed to death and her body had been taken to the rural location from either Leeds or Bradford - but detectives did not know if she was taken there alive.

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