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Hi, and welcome back to The
Unseen Podcast, a podcast dedicated to missing

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people, unresolved cases, and UK
true crime. Today, we're going to

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be exploring the mysterious and tragic murder
of mum of two Jacqueline Palmer Radford at

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her home in Eversleigh in Hampshire in
nineteen ninety two. There were some very

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odd elements to Jacqueline's murder that add
mystery to it and cause people to wonder

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why such an unlikely victim was targeted. This episode contains descriptions that some listeners

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may find distressing. Soul listener discretion
is advised. The village of Eversleigh is

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a small village located around eleven miles
away from the larger town of Basingstoke.

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It is a generally rural village with
a small population. The residents were friendly

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with each other and it was a
place where new or different things were noticed,

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purely due to the village's size.
Eversley is where Jacqueline Palmer Radford lived

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with her two sons in nineteen ninety
two. Jacqueline had separated from her husband

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around eighteen months prior. The couple
had been together for eighteen years and so

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this split caused some huge changes in
her life. Jacqueline lived at a home

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called Riversdale House in the village with
her children, her eldest son, who

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was sixteen, and her youngest who
was six. Jacqueline had been building up

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a new life for herself as a
newly single woman of forty, and by

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all accounts, was becoming interested in
many new hobbies and widening her social circle.

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She had started an open university course
and had taken up number of sports,

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which she was enjoying. Through these
new activities, Jacqueline was meeting new

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people and slowly getting over such a
huge upheaval in her and her children's lives.

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Everything seemed to be working out great
for her, and she seemed to

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be enjoying her life and getting on
with looking after her children. Jacqueline cared

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deeply about her two sons and was
very involved in their lives, but this

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reason Wednesday, the first of April
nineteen ninety two stuck out in the minds

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of the staff at Jacqueline's youngest son's
primary school, which he attended. Nobody

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had come to pick him up from
school that day, and he was still

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waiting for his mom. At four
o'clock. This was certainly unusual and struck

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everyone that knew Jacqueline in any capacity
as strange. She was always there for

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her sons and would have let someone
know if she was running late or something

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had happened. This event would sadly
foreshadow the events of that awful afternoon.

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Jacqueline's eldest son returned home to Riversdale
House around five thirty that evening after being

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at college. His statement to the
inquest was later reported by the Redding Evening

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Post, and he explained that when
he got home, he found he was

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locked out. He found his spare
key and eventually entered the home. A

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horrendos sight greeted him as he found
his mother dead in the kitchen. Her

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death was clearly not an accident,
as her son would later say, as

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reported by the Redding Evening Post,
I saw my mother lying on her back

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in the kitchen. She was naked
from the waist down. Her face had

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turned blue and it was obvious that
she was dead. I called nine,

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nine, nine, and at some
point I started pushing her chest. There

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appeared to be sick in her mouth. The headmistress from Jacqueline's younger son's school,

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had traveled back home with him at
this point to see what had happened,

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and was walking down the street when
his brother came running out of the

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house. She later said that he
ran out and threw his arms around her

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and begged her to help him.
This is just a heartbreaking image, and

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I can't imagine how hard this must
have been for Jacqueline's children. This awful

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scene soon became a crime scene,
with police swarming to try and figure out

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what had happened to this mother of
two. Police began to analyze the information

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that they had. Jacqueline had been
found in the kitchen in her home,

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and when Jacqueline's body was assessed by
a home office pathologist, doctor Peter Long,

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it was found that she had been
asphyxiated and had also been subjected to

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a sexual assault. The scene was
a little strange in the way that there

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didn't appear to have been a break
in, and there also didn't seem to

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be anything missing to suggest that robbery
had been the motive. Police were quite

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baffled by the scene and by the
motive of the perpetrator. While there was

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a sexual assault. The theory began
to grow from early on that this was

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perhaps someone Jacqueline knew, or someone
who she was at least acquainted with.

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This was due to the fact that
there was no break in and there didn't

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appear to have been a struggle prior
to Jacqueline's death. The fact that she

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had also been suffocated and hadn't been
killed in a more violent manner suggested to

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police that this may be someone known
to her and not a stranger attack.

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Detective Constable Mike Scott from Hampshire Police
told the Reading Evening Post two weeks after

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her death, if she had suffered
a violent death, we would think that

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we were looking for a stranger,
but on this occasion we have someone who

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doesn't appear to have struggled to get
onto the premises and she was then suffocated.

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Who did this and why is a
complete mystery. The fact that police

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believe that Jacqueline perhaps knew her killer
led them, perhaps inevitably, to Jacqueline's

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ex husband, Werner. The couple
had separated, and its common knowledge that

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most victims are murdered by someone that
they know, particularly women. Therefore,

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it's unsurprising that he was spoken to
very soon after Jacqueline's murder. Newspapers reported

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at the time that he was interviewed
that he was released without any charge,

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implying that there wasn't anything of interest
discovered or found at that time that could

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prove anything. Police were very interested
in trying to find out as much as

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they could about Jacqueline's private life and
about her usual movements or anything out of

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the ordinary about them. In the
days leading up to her death. Less

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than two weeks after her murders,
Valley Police issued a poster with two recent

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photographs of Jacqueline on in the hope
that seeing her picture would jug someone's memory.

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Detective Constable Mike Scott continued to speak
to the media about the investigation and

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told the Reading Evening Post, we
have been interviewing friends and relatives all week.

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At the moment, we're trying to
find out as much as we can

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about the deceased and her relationships with
family and friends. We are still working

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flat out to try and find out
all we can about it from people that

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knew her. This became a main
line of inquiry and officers were trying to

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track down anything they could that could
provide that crucial piece of information. Officers

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spoke with Jacqueline's family and friends and
also with her neighbors in the area,

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who it was hoped would possibly have
seen something. When speaking to residents,

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police discovered that they were all shocked
and horrified by what had happened to Jacqueline,

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and they were surprised that it could
happen in their friendly village. They

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also didn't have much to add about
Jacqueline or the family, as neighbors reported

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to the Reading Evening Post that they
didn't really know them very well, despite

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the family living there for eight years. Several neighbors of the family stated that

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it seemed as though they didn't want
to get to know anyone in the community

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and acted quite secretively. One stated
they didn't want to know anyone. They

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thought of their house as their castle. They were a very secretive family.

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Another said we were a very friendly
village, but for some reason, this

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family didn't want to make friends with
anyone. You can't make friends with people

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who don't want to be friends.
After many attempts, we left them alone.

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It's hard to judge these comments given
that the family appear to have been

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set against the expectations of others in
the village, and it's natural that some

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people pol may want more privacy than
others, whether Jacqueline wanted to be left

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alone or not. The information is
interesting as it's clear that the neighbors knew

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little about them and therefore would not
have been privy to their usual routine.

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Despite the fact that few people actually
knew Jacqueline or the family that well in

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the village, due to the close
knit nature and the size of the village,

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residents did notice anything out of the
ordinary or unusual. This was very

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important for the police, who could
at least narrow down some aspects of it,

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not just Jacqueline's movements, but other
people in Eversley. This timeline was

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later broken down on a Crime Watch
segment about the murder on National TV.

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Police were able to establish that on
Tuesday, the thirty first of March nineteen

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ninety two, the day before the
murder, Jacqueline had had a relatively normal

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day. She had dropped her youngest
son off at school in crow Thorn,

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around four miles away from the village. One of the other parents, however,

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had noticed something unusual that day.
Outside of the school. They noticed

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a brown Voxhall Chevette Hatchback parked across
the road, which appeared to be lingering

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The witness said that the man in
the driver's seat didn't appear to be looking

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at the school or anything in particular. However, he did look quite tense

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and serious, and this struck the
witness. The next morning, residence in

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the village itself had spotted something else
that seemed off. Around half a on

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the morning that Jacqueline was murdered,
a beige Perjo two oh five car was

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spotted a few hundred yards away from
Jacqueline's home a small office block. The

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beige car pulled into the car park
and a woman was driving it. She

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wasn't an employee at the office,
and so her car and her presence stood

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out to the staff. She was
also wearing a green scarf on her head,

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as though she were hiding herself.
The woman was very pale, with

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red or ginger short hair. The
witness got the impression that she was very

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thin, although she didn't see the
rest of her body. The presence of

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a stranger in the village was odd, particularly as she stayed in the car

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and didn't seem to have any business
there. The car stayed in the car

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park until at least later that morning, when employees saw it outside. The

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woman had took her head scarf off
at that point, which is when they

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could clearly see her hair. She
left in the mid morning. Again,

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this was not directly linked to Jacqueline. However, it stood out as important

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to the residents. As it was
close to Riversdale House, it was thought

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it could be important something that was
directly linked to Jacqueline or at least her

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home. Were two other sightings in
the time that Jacqueline had left the home

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and was on her way to take
her son to school. A witness was

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driving past Riversdale House when a car
in front began to indicate to turn into

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a driveway. It was around nine
ten am, and the witness remembered as

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he had to stop and wait behind
it for it to turn in. He

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noted that the car was turning into
Jacqueline's driveway and spotted the sign for Riversdale

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House. The significance of this,
of course, is that it's now known

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that Jacqueline may not have been at
home at this time, and so who

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was this person and why were they
parking on her driveway. There was something

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else significant about this sighting. The
witness described the car as brown and gave

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a very similar description to that of
the car scene outside Jacqueline's sons school the

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previous day. Whether these were the
same car, however, hasn't been established.

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It is known that Jacqueline must have
returned pretty much straight away after this,

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as she was home by nine to
fifteen am. We know as she

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spoke to her mom on the phone, and it was reported that she was

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her usual self. Strangely, that
day, a man was also seen on

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the property around midday. This man
was described as smartly dressed and stood on

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the driveway to the house looking up
at it. Police would later say that

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this man could have been an estate
agent or a surveyor, As while Riversdale

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House was not on the market yet, Jacqueline was considering selling it and had

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had meetings with the state agents to
put it on the market soon, it

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was likely that this man was probably
connected to selling the home. However,

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it is important that he too was
ruled out as having anything to do with

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Jacqueline's death. As we have already
discussed, Jacqueline failed to pick up her

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son when he finished school that day, so it's likely that she'd already been

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murdered by that point. All of
these things combined to create a picture,

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however, didn't actually explain what Jacqueline
did with the rest of her day,

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who she saw, or where she
went. It was possible that none of

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these sightings had anything to do with
her murder at all. However, police

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needed more information to establish this.
In June nineteen ninety two, two months

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after her murder, the case was
featured on BBC's Crime Watch, and it

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was hoped by presenting all of this
information something could be discovered. Other information

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was also presented on the program.
A photo fit of the man that was

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seen in the brown car outside Jacqueline's
son's school was shown. The man was

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believed to be in his forties,
with sandy hair which was scruffy on the

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top, and he had a pale
complexion so pale that he looked ill.

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Was wearing a white shirt and a
gray pull over. Two other pieces of

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evidence were described and shown. A
pen had been recovered from Jacqueline's driveway.

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It was a common design with the
zigzag pattern along the side and retailed for

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around thirty to thirty two pounds or
around sixty five pounds today. On the

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episode, the police speculated that it
could have been dropped by the smartly dressed

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man seen on the driveway. Another
piece of evidence was found in the house.

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An open university prospectus was found with
the name Lawrence Gillham written on it,

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along with the time of ten forty. Police were eager to find out

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who Lawrence Gillham was or whether this
was an appointment for that day or another

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day. There was also a sighting
of a man that witnesses thought was suspicious.

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At around eleven am, a man
was seen running not far from jack

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home. He stood out because he
was running wearing jogging bottoms, trainers and

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a long plastic raincoat. He was
carrying a Sainsbury's carrier bag along with a

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bag that looked like an airline bag. He clearly stood out to witnesses and

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police wanted to trace him. It
was clear that some are none of these

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things could be relevant to the investigation, but it was crucial that they were

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ruled out of the investigation. The
program brought in over a hundred tips and

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police began to sift through them all. It was useful as they were able

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to rule out at least two pieces
of evidence they recovered. It was reported

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by the Reading Evening Post that the
pen was claimed by a friend of Jacquelin's,

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and Lawrence Gillham came forward and explained
the note on the prospectus he was

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eliminated from the inquiry. DC Mike
Scott said this was use full as it

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cleared up a number of niggling points, but that they still hadn't solved the

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murder. One thing that they weren't
able to clear up was the identity of

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the man in the brown car,
and this was something they were eager to

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find out. The investigation continued on
through July nineteen ninety two, with a

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squad of twenty detectives running down all
the leads that came in. Unfortunately,

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as happened sometimes with murder inquiries,
the leads began to dry up unless information

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came into police. This did begin
to happen in Jacquelin's case, and as

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a result, the squad working on
it was slimmed down to just twelve detectives

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by January nineteen ninety three, a
year after Jacquelin's murder. In April nineteen

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ninety three, police reported that they
thought they knew who had killed her and

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were presenting a file to the Crown
Prosecution Service. A police spokesperson told the

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reading evening Post. We expect we'll
be sending the papers to the CPS towards

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the end of the month. After
it has been reviewed, the CPS will

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decide if we have enough evidence to
arrest our suspect. It's unclear who this

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suspect was, however, or why
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As A year later, in April
nineteen ninety four, it was reported

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in the papers once again that they
were close to submitting a file to the

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CPS so that they could arrest one
suspect for the murder. Police stated that

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they believe that they have been following
the right line of inquiry from the beginning

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and that they believed they had the
correct suspect. They said, there are

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no other issues which we feel would
point us in a different direction to the

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one we have been following from the
start. It would appear that this filing

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with the CPS went no further.
It was confirmed that by nineteen ninety four,

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just three offs were working on Jacqueline's
case. Since then, there has

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been little published about her case,
and it still remains unsolved to this day,

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which is extremely sad. There is
so little that is known about Jacqueline,

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her life or what she did that
morning. It's believed that she was

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murdered at some point on the morning
of the first of April, and police

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have stated that they believe it was
someone she knew, as there was no

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struggle and no robbery. We do
have to remember, though, that Jacqueline

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was sexually assaulted, and so this
could definitely have been the primary motive.

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Was it someone she knew that friends
and family and neighbors possibly didn't know about

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or hadn't seen. Had she recently
met someone who then killed her? Had

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someone turned up at the house and
Jacqueline had felt comfortable enough to let them

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in. And why had Jacqueline been
targeted? She was very private about her

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life and far she may have had
things she did not share with others,

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and getting to the bottom of it
may prove tricky. Were any of the

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people cited that day involved. Certainly
the man in the brown style chevek car

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is still a crucial person of interest, and despite multiple appeals at the time,

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he never came forward. Why did
he pull into Jacqueline's driveway that day?

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The police did at one point believe
they had a main suspect who was

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this and why did they not proceed
with charges. There is so much we

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don't know about Jacqueline's murder, but
I cannot get the images of her son

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discovering her body and her other son
waiting for his mum to pick him up

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from school. They did not deserve
to grow up without their mother, and

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the person responsible should have been brought
to justice. Her family, in particularly

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her children, should have the answers
they need, and I really do hope

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we see some more progress in this
case. If you know anything about the

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murder of Jacqueline Palmer Radford in nineteen
ninety two, please contact police on one

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oh one with what you know.
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