92-Year-old CONVICTED! 1967 Rape/Murder Cold Case Thawed After 58 Years

Ryland Headley was 34-years-old when he raped and murdered 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in her home in Bristol (UK) on June 28, 1967.  The biggest lead investigators had was to be found ‘lifted’ from the dusted powder of a window frame at the back of Louisa Dunne’s house and the residual trace of a palm print. It triggered the biggest finger and palm print operation in the history of the force. No suspect was found and the case went cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the rape/murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne, the evidence left behind, as well as similar attacks 10 years later and 212 miles away credited to the 'Ipswich Rapist', Ryland Headley. Joseph Scott Morgan explains how investigators careful collection of evidence in 1967 was used to convict 92-year-old Ryland Headley 58 years after the crime.

 

 

 

 

Transcript Highlights 
00:00.43 Introduction - 1967 Cold Case

05:23.79 1967 unsolved murder - SOLVED 2025

09:43.05 Neighbor checks on Louisa Dune, 75

14:43.95 The icy fingers of death

19:24.99 Neighbor calls police after finding body

24:11.77 Scarf used to strangle victim 

29:09.05 The Ipswich Rapist - 1977

34:15.57 Ipswich victims were 79 and 84

35:11.95 Ryland Headley sentenced to life, sentenced overturned, released in 1980

40:06.98 Evidence lost

44:12.49 Partial Palm Print from 1967

47:03.59 DNA from 1967 matched to Ryland Headley

Conclusion 

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