The Sudbury School Murders: 4 (Captain Lacey Regency Mysteries)

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At around 8pm, a witness saw Richard in his driveway holding his head. It is believed that he could have sustained the injury by this time. Five days later, her body was found in a ditch in Stowmarket, after a dog walker reported seeing a dummy. The mystery and murders are... almost secondary at times. The events and details unravel at an alarmingly slow rate, it seems. And while it's not tough to finger the murderer, the events are wrapped up in the pranks at the school - are they perpetrated by one and the same to cover up the other things happening behind closed doors? Despite having been seen walking down Burrows Road in the village to the newsagents and looking through its window, Linda did not enter the store. The 1993 murder of young mum Karen Hales, who was stabbed to death at her Ipswich home, has also gone unsolved. Karen Hales died while at home with her 18-month-old daughter. Picture: Suffolk Police (40022104)

Captain Gabriel Lacy has taken a position as a secretary to a head master at a country school for boys. His good friend Lucius Grenville went to school with the headmaster and recommended Lacy to the position. There have been some disturbing pranks at the school and the headmaster would like Lacy to uncover who the perpetrators are. Lacy is ready to enjoy the clean air and quiet peacefulness of the country. But the pranks become deadly serious when a body is found in a nearby canal and Lacy finds himself investigating another murder. Latest test results have indicated the victim was a white male, approximately 5ft 9in tall, of medium build and North European, said police. On June 14, King Richard rode out from the Tower of London for an arranged meeting with the rebels at Mile End. After the meeting ended, Wat Tyler and 400 men went to the Tower of London and found Lord Chancellor Simon of Sudbury and Lord High Treasurer Sir Robert Hales, who was responsible for collecting the third poll tax in four years, at prayer in St John’s Chapel in the White Tower. Both men were seized and led to their deaths. The Westgate Towers, rebuilt by Simon of Sudbury, still stand strong in Canterbury today. Picture: Andy JonesHer body, partially decomposed, was found in a ditch adjacent to the B1518 in Wangford, on February 18, 1989, 16 days after she was last seen. I'm pleased that the "main" characters continue to grow and evolve as real people do. The friendship between Lacey and Grenville deepens, but also hits a bit of turbulence over Marianne. Lacey keeps Marianne's secret, which irks Grenville, but it means that Lacey's sense of honor is in tact -- and honor and "right" are among Lacey's most valuable and most dangerous character traits. To reveal Marianne's secret to Grenville would mean that Lacey isn't true to his own code. In one of those cases, a 40-year-old man was gunned down inside a unit at the Lighthouse co-op on Bruce Avenue. That was in October of last year, and police said it was a targeted incident, involving people known to one another. Police say two men from Greater Sudbury, ages 27 and 38, were the victims in the fatal shooting at a local hotel on Tuesday.

On Christmas Day at the end of the Eucharist service the Lord Mayor and Corporation process from the Nave to the tomb of Archbishop Simon of Sudbury, where the Lord Mayor lays a wreath of roses on behalf of the city. If someone you know was acting suspiciously or displayed a real change in their character in the days and weeks before - and after - the discovery which gives you concern, then please come forward and talk to us. The 87-year-old is believed to have been murdered after confronting a burglar, who subsequently set fire to the mattress on which her body lay. Nash showed no visible reaction as his sentence was read out and he used his walking frame to head down to the cells, as family members of the victims wept in the public gallery.But what were the events which led to this gruesome conclusion and what do we know about the man himself? A reconstruction of how Simon of Sudbury would have looked, based on the dimensions of his skull and a CT scan of his mummified head by Dundee University Aged just 17, Mr Oliver's dissected body was found in two suitcases in Tattingstone, near to the Shotley Peninsula. Officers took more than 2,000 statements from those potentially involved, but to date, no name has ever been attached to the murder of the 17-year-old. The Metropolitan Police assisted Suffolk and Essex detectives with the investigation into the schoolgirl’s murder, with leads having been followed up in Earls Colne and the wider area, but no one was ever arrested or charged with her murder. Bernard Oliver's disected body was discovered in two suitcases. Picture: Suffolk Police (40022124)

Suffolk Police launched a murder investigation which saw detectives carry out house to house enquiries, forensic work and make numerous media appeals. Little is known about the baby or its murder, and attempts to trace a couple who were seen nearby are still yet to come to fruition. Karen Hales died at her home in Ipswich. Picture: Suffolk Police They also found the man, who had “serious injuries” and was taken by air ambulance to Addenbrooke’s hospital in Cambridge for treatment. He remains there in a stable condition and he is under arrest on suspicion of two counts of murder, police said on Wednesday. Karen’s partner had left for work earlier in the day, leaving Karen and her daughter alone in the house.

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Originally from London, Plunkett was one of hundreds who had travelled to Ipswich for the event at Zest, which has now shut down, on December 9, 2006. A reported gas leak at the property has now been made safe and residents who were earlier evacuated as a precaution will be allowed to return home. Around 45 minutes later, a passerby saw a man, thought to be Richard, standing in the driveway holding his head. It is thought he may have sustained the injury by this time. Police received reports that the body of a baby had been discovered at Bramford Marshes in Bramford.

In total, police interviewed 4,700 people in connection with the case but were not able to find Dora’s killer. THe murder of Diane Jones remains shrouded in mystery decades on. Picture: Suffolk police (40062437)

Last year marked the 20th anniversary of the murder of Victoria Hall, a 17-year-old girl who went missing after a night out in Felixstowe. Further investigation have come to light in the 39 years since she died, and while the case is regularly reviewed, nobody has ever been charged with her murder. Diane Jones, 35, of Coggeshall. Picture: Suffolk Police Last year, Detective Superintendent Andy Smith, head of the Joint Norfolk and Suffolk Major Investigation Team, said officers were ‘not giving up on this investigation’. Karen Hales' house in 1993 and how it looked in 2014. Picture: Suffolk Police (40022107)