Heather Barnett's mutilated body was discovered by her son and daughter on their return home from school in Bournemouth one November afternoon. The police quickly ascertained that the murder was premeditated and meticulously planned down to the last macabre detail: the killer had not left one single piece of DNA evidence – even the bloody footprints from a distinct pair of trainers did not lead out of the house but ended in the front room, without any further trace. As a bizarre and sickening calling card the killer placed a lock of someone else's hair in the victim's hand. Detectives were shocked by the savagery of the murder and baffled by the apparently sadistic ritualism of the killing. Many long months of enquiries led to an eventual lead from Interpol: the parents of a missing girl in Italy had been posted a lock of hair. Could the two murders be linked and had the police just made the breakthrough they so desperately needed? In this in-depth and chilling book acclaimed crime writer Michael Litchfield investigates the full story of the killer behind these terrible murders.
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Michael Litchfield. The Cutter - It started as an obsession with hacking hair from women's heads. It ended with murder
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
PUBLISHER’S NOTE
CONTENTS
SHATTERED LIVES
JIGSAW STARTS TO PUZZLE
RULES OF ENGAGEMENT
SOFTLY, SOFTLY …
EVIDENCE FROM ITALY
WHERE ANGELS FEAR TO TREAD
FAMILY TIES
THE VANISHING
FAINT HOPE AND WORST FEARS
THE SPARK OF AN OBSESSION
CUT AND RUN
STAB IN THE DARK
UNDER THE MICROSCOPE
ENDGAME
NAIL IN THE COFFIN
CLOSING THE NET
OUT OF THEIR MINDS
TRIED AND TESTED
THE UNMASKING OF A KILLER
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For those left behind – innocent victims of fate with an unimaginable cross to bear for the rest of their lives.
My thanks also go to the Daily Echo, Bournemouth reporting team, led by Andy Martin, who generously shared information that had been harvested remorselessly over nine years of an international police investigation.
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Restivo went with Fiamma to the children. The staccato, disjointed and muddled narrative, naturally devoid of chronology, that spilled from the children appalled Fiamma. ‘You poor children,’ she muttered. ‘Have you called the police?’
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