What the records say
- When
- 1970
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 51.65° N, 0.08° E
- Description
- Double murder in England in 1970
Babes in the Wood murders (Epping Forest)
Double murder in England in 1970
The Babes in the Wood murders are the murders of two children which occurred in a copse in Sewardstone, Essex on 31 March 1970. The victims, Susan Muriel Blatchford and Gary John Hanlon, were lured from an unknown location close to their north London homes into a copse on the outskirts of Epping Forest, where they were raped and murdered by known paedophile Ronald Jebson.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The bodies of two children are found buried in shallow graves in woodland at Waltham Abbey, Essex”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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