Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo

rdf:langString Murders of Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb and Barbara Mayo

rdf:langString Barbara Mayo

rdf:langString Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb

rdf:langString Barbara Mayo

rdf:langString Jacqueline Ansell-Lamb

rdf:langString Ansell-Lamb and Mayo, c. 1970

rdf:langString Victims of unsolved murder

rdf:langString Jacqueline Susan Ansell-Lamb (21 September 1951 – 14 March 1970) and Barbara Janet Mayo (20 March 1946 – 12 October 1970) were two young women who were murdered in separate incidents in 1970. Both women were last seen hitch-hiking along motorways in England, and both were sexually assaulted before being strangled to death. Although the murders occurred seven months apart and a considerable distance from each other, investigators suspect both murders were committed by the same perpetrator. Links between the two murders are often erroneously reported to have been proven via DNA testing, and although detectives announced in 1990 that the women's murders were likely linked, a DNA profile was not isolated in either case until 1997, and only in the case of Mayo. Despite numerous public appeals for information and reconstructions, both murders remain unsolved. The perpetrator(s) of the murders of Ansell-Lamb and Mayo is sometimes referred to as the Monster of the Motorway or the Motorway Monster.

rdf:langString Chesterfield, Derbyshire