What the records say
- When
- Jan 1975
- Kind
- Murder
- Coordinates
- 52.45° N, 2.38° W
- Description
- 1975 murder in England
Placed at the coordinates of its English Wikipedia article.
Kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle
1975 death in England
The kidnapping and murder of Lesley Whittle occurred on 14 January 1975. Whittle, a teenage heiress, was kidnapped at gunpoint from her home in Highley, Shropshire, by Donald Neilson, a notorious burglar and murderer known as the Black Panther.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “Seventeen-year-old heiress Lesley Whittle, daughter of bus operator George Whittle (1905–1967)”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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