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Amala Ruth De Vere Whelan, 22, was found dead at her home in Maida Vale, west London, on 16 November 1972. She had been raped, beaten and strangled with a stocking. There was no sign of forced entry at the flat at 61 Randoph Avenue and the word ‘ripper’ had been sprayed on to the …

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Holocaust survivor Emmy Werner, 68, was murdered in her hotel room in Bayswater on 17 September 1972. The widow was found dead in her bed by a chambermaid at Queens Hotel in Inverness Terrace at around 1pm. She had been strangled and had suffered other serious injuries suggesting she had woken and disturbed her attacker. …

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