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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 be

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exploring the tragic murder of twenty year
old Deborah Wood from Leeds in nineteen ninety

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six. Her murder was violent and
the lengths that the killer went to cover

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up the crime caused huge concern for
West Yorkshire police. Her murder is still

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unsolved and her family desperately want more
answers to what happened. This episode contains

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descriptions that some listeners may find distress
in, so listener discretion is advised.

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On January the fourteenth, nineteen ninety
six, a fire was reported to emergency

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services in the West Yorkshire village of
Burleigh, around eleven miles northwest from the

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city of Leeds. The passers by
noticed the fire at Burley train station,

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and becoming worried about it spreading,
they made the emergency call. Firefighters immediately

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went out to the scene to investigate
the situation and to put out the flames.

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When they arrived, they weren't prepared
for what they were about to see.

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When the flames were extinguished, what
they found was a horrific sight.

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The charred body of a woman who
had been set alight was the source of

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the fire, and nobody could have
been expecting such a terrible cause. The

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scene was now quite rightly a crime
scene and West Yorkshire Police were now involved.

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The woman's body was damaged to the
extent that her features in any distinguishing

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marks were not able to be discerned
or identified. The police had just a

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few details to work with, namely
evidence of her clothing, red fingerless gloves

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of age, skirt and boots.
This wasn't a lot to go on,

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however, it was the only indication
that they had. Why was this woman

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at the train station, why had
she become the victim of a crime,

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and who was she? Someone did
recognize the clothing and had come to a

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horrific conclusion. Linda Vernon heard the
news about the body that had been found

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on TV. She was immediately concerned
by it. When she heard about the

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clothing that the woman had been found
in, she was sure that her fears

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were right and her heart sank.
She rang the police and told them that's

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my last She would later say,
I knew it was our Deborah. Linda

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had recognized the small pieces of clothing
that had been recovered, she later told

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the press. They said there were
only bits of clothes left. Red fingerless

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gloves, boots and a skirt.
I knew then Joanne, her sister,

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had given her the gloves, and
I'd bought her the beige skirt. Linda

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had become concerned about her twenty year
old daughter, Deborah, would when she

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had had plans to meet up with
her and go shopping in the market town

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of Marley in the Borough of Leeds. Deborah hadn't turned up to meet her,

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and Linda knew that this was unusual. Linda would later explain that Deborah

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had recently moved out of the family
home in Wakefield and into her own flat

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in Leads. Linda stated that Deborah
was the baby of the family, having

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grown up with two older sisters and
a brother, so Deborah moving out was

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a big deal for her and her
family. Deborah seemed to be happy with

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the move though, and continue to
keep in contact with her family and meet

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up with them often. It was
normal for her to meet up with her

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mum and do a bit of shopping, and so when Linda turned up but

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Deborah didn't, this rang alarm bells
Linda explained, we were supposed to meet

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outside the town hall in Marley.
I remember it was freezing cold and foggy.

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I waited for more than three hours, but she never turned up.

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This was highly unusual and out of
character, and it made Linda immediately worried.

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The fact that the worst imaginable was
now reality when Deborah's body was recovered

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must have been horrendous. And also
the fact that Linda had found this out

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on a TV report is such a
tragedy. Now that police had an identification,

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they began trying to establish Deborah's last
known movements, as well as sending

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her body for analysis. They discovered
that Deborah seemed to have last been seen

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ten days before her body was recovered. She had met her dad for drinks

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at Big Lille's public house in Leeds
City Center on the fourth of January.

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Deborah left her around five p m. That evening, and this appeared to

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be the last time that any one
had seen her alive. Where had she

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been during this time and what had
happened to her when she left? These

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were the questions that police were hoping
to get some answers to through the analysis

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of Deborah's body. Her body had
undergone an awful lot of damage due to

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the fire, and it was confirmed
that it had been doused with petrol before

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being set alight. This damage made
a cause of death very difficult to establish.

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One thing that the forensic examiners did
find was both shocking and surprising.

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Forensic evidence that was recovered suggested that
before her body was set alight, it

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seemed to have been kept in cold
storage, and this was thought to have

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been for up to ten days.
This news was alarming and completely fit the

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theory that whatever had happened to Deborah
was definitively a murder. It also raised

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some questions why had some one murdered
her and kept her in cold storage before

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setting her a light. Where had
they done this, when had they done

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this? Given there were only ten
days between Deborah going missing and her body

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being recovered, there was a very
narrow window when this could have occurred,

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and suggested that some one had done
her harm. Not long after she had

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disappeared, police began looking at all
angles of the investigation, trying to take

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into account all of the possible things
that could have happened to Deborah. But

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given there wasn't a lot of forensic
evidence or witnesses placing anyone specific at the

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scene. It was proving difficult.
They appealed for information and for anyone to

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come forward to help. The police
were optimistic that the appeal would bring forward

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important information, and Deborah's case was
featured on crime Watch at the end of

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March nineteen ninety six. This gave
the case a much needed public platform,

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and this was a step in the
right direction for the investigation. Unfortunately,

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despite this national attention, few leads
came in that were relevant to Deborah's case

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or identified a possible suspect. This
was, of course disappointing, and as

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time went by, Deborah's family were
left wondering who had committed this awful murder

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and why there were things that just
didn't make sense to her family. Why

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was she in that area in the
first place. Deborah's brother, Craig would

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later confirm that she had no links
to the area in which her body was

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found and there was no reason why
she would have been there. Deborah had

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been behaving like her usual self and
there was no indication that anything was wrong

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during that last time that she was
seen in Leeds. What had happened and

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how Deborah had become the victim of
such a brutal crime was a real mystery.

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Something that remained a mystery for the
police was that Deborah's body had been

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kept in cold storage for up to
ten days before her body was then set

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on fire. Why had someone done
this, where had she been kept and

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why had her body been left where
it was in that location. There were

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features of the case that didn't make
sense, and they had little information to

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answer any of them. Deborah's case
began to grow cold when information and evidence

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wasn't forthcoming and there were no immediate
breaks in the case. The year two

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thousand came around and Deborah's family were
still waiting for answers. However, another

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tragic murder would soon make connections that
nobody was expecting. On the twentieth of

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August two thousand and one, the
body of sixteen year old Leanne Tiernan was

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discovered close to Ottley, on the
border between North and West Yorkshire. Leanne

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had been missing since the previous November
after she'd been on a shopping trip with

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her friend in Leeds and was on
her way back to her house in Bramley

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when she suddenly vanished. When her
friend Sarah arrived home, she rang Leanne's

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house, but was shocked to find
that she wasn't there. She hadn't arrived

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back. Leanne's family were immediately worried
and phoned the police to report her missing.

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The investigation until Leanne's disappearance was large, with Detective Superintendent Chris gregg in

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Madge of the missing person inquiry.
Thousands of house to house inquiries were made,

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along with searches of the area where
she had last known to be seen.

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Some DNA samples were taken from local
men in the area, and Leanne's

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face was printed on the side of
milk cartons as the months passed, though

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Leanne had not been found until nine
months later by someone walking their dogs.

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The fact that Leanne's body had been
found in that location was also quite concerning,

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given that just around a hundred yards
from where she'd been found, another

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woman's body had also been discovered.
Yvonne Fit was just thirty two years old

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when her body was found in a
shallow grave in September of nineteen ninety two,

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close to where Leanne Tiernan had now
been found. Yvonne had an eleven

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year old daughter and had been working
as a sex worker in the red light

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districts of Bradford and Leeds at the
time that she had been murdered, and

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she had last been seen in January
of that year in Bradford. When her

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decomposing body was analyzed, it was
discovered that she had been stabbed to death

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and that her body transported either dead
or alive, to the location where it

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was eventually found. It was thought
that this had occurred in around July of

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nineteen ninety two, two months before
she was found. Yvonne's murder had been

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featured on Crime Watch and there was
an anonymous caller who phoned into the show

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in November of nineteen ninety two with
the name of a possible suspect. This

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caller was not able to be traced. Yvonne's family were distraught by the news

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that she had been found murdered and
described her as being left without any dignity.

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Despite the publicity that Yvonne's case received
at the time, her case grew

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cold without any real suspects or evidence
to identify who was responsible for the murder.

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When Leanne's body was found very close
to where Ivans had been, the

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police were concerned about what exactly they
were dealing with. There didn't appear to

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be any tangible links between the two
cases, given that almost ten years had

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passed and the two women were very
different as victims, but the proximity was

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both strange and problematic. Liane's body
was taken to be analyzed and the way

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in which she was concealed was looked
at closely. Her body had been wrapped

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in green plastic bin liners, which
were then tied with twine. Her head

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had also been wrapped in a black
bin liner, which was held in place

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with a dog collar. Her hands
had been tied together with cable ties,

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and there were also cable ties around
her neck with a scarf. Her body

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was then finally wrapped in a floor
or duva cover. The post martem brought

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up something strange. Leanne had been
missing for nine months, but her body

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was inconsistent with this, leading forensic
experts to believe that her body may have

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been kept in cold storage or in
a freezer for some period of time.

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This meant that the decomposition was not
as severe as it may have been if

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this hadn't been the case. This, in a way would help the investigation

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later on, during the inquiries in
Leanne's murder, a name was given to

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police by two separate people who had
once dated the same man, John Taylor.

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Taylor lived on the same housing estate
as Leanne and had bragged to both

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of these women when passing the woods
where Leanne was found that he often went

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poaching there. Taylor often went hunting
and poaching, and was known to be

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cruel and violent towards animals. When
police investigated Taylor, they found that he

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often put adverts in Lonely Heart columns
after his wife had divorced him in nineteen

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ninety six, and these women that
he met up with told officers that he

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had a bondage fetish. He would
regularly tie up women with cable ties,

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and this made many of the women
uncomfortable. When Taylor's house was searched,

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they found other items that linked him
to the crime, and they ended up

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with a wealth of forensic evidence against
him. Scientists were able to use mitochondrial

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DNA testing to match a hair found
wrapped in the knot of the scarf around

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Leam's neck to Taylor. They also
found the twine that had been used to

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wrap the body up was usually only
used by the Ministry of Defense but a

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small batch had been sold for nets
to catch rabbits in This batch matched the

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twine used at the scene and was
also found in Taylor's home. Red carpet

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fibers were also found on Leanne's clothing, and when Taylor's home was searched,

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it was discovered that he had removed
a lot of the carpet and burnt it,

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but nails in the floorboards still had
some carpet attached, and this was

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a match to the fibers found on
Leanne's body. Pollen analysis of Leanne's body

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also showed that she had been in
Taylor's garden not long before she had died.

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As distinctive types of pollen was found
in Leanne's nasal cavity, there was

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no getting around it. John Taylor
was responsible for lean Tenan's murder. He

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was convicted of Leanne's murder in two
thousand and two and was sentenced to life

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in prison with a minimum term set
in two thousand and six of thirty years.

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Police began to believe that Taylor had
been involved in other crimes before,

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with Detective Superintendent Chris Gregg dating that
they do not believe that this was the

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first major crime he had committed.
In fact, they used his DNA profile

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to match him to two sexual assaults
in the nineteen eighties. One occurred in

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nineteen eighty eight when he attacked a
thirty two year old woman wearing a mask

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and a knife as she was walking
across some waist ground in Leeds. He

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raped this woman and then let her
go. In nineteen eighty nine, he

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broke into a twenty one year old
woman's house in Bramley and Leeds at lunchtime.

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He blindfolded and gagged her and then
raped her. Her baby was in

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the other room at the time of
these attacks. These were brutal attacks with

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a clear sexual motive, and in
two thousand and three he pled guilty to

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the two attacks. He was later
charged with sixteen other offenses in two thousand

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and eighteen, including another three rapes
between nineteen seventy seven and nineteen nine six.

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These were all discovered through DNA testing. The judge stated, you carried

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out a twenty year campaign of rape
and assaults fueled by sadistic desire to inflict

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pain for sexual gratification. John Taylor
was clearly a sexual predator and killer,

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and therefore it was no surprise that
the police wanted to check if he had

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been involved in any other possible murders. One of them that stood out was

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the murder of Deborah Wood in nineteen
ninety six. Deborah's case began to be

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talked about in relation to John Taylor
for several reasons. One of the main

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things that made a connection between the
two was the fact that Leantinan's body had

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been kept in cold storage before being
buried in a shallow grave. This odd

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and distinctive fact was also the same
as Deborah's, whose body was kept frozen

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before later in set alight. There
was also the fact that the area where

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Deborah's body was found was only around
a twelve minute walk away from John Taylor's

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home in the area of Bramley.
The suspicion that Taylor had something to do

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with the murder is at this moment
still a suspicion, as forensic evidence is

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yet to conclude whether he had anything
to do with it. Taylor is being

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looked at for several unsolved murders in
the area, including that if Yvonne Fit,

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the nineteen ninety five murder of Lindsay
Joe Rymer, who disappeared from hebden

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Bridge and whose case we've covered previously
on the podcast, and the nineteen ninety

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one murder of Donna Healey from Bradford, whose body also appeared to have been

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frozen before being dumped. Deborah's family
believed that Taylor did have something to do

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with Deborah's murder and hope that this
can be confirmed so that they can finally

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get some justice our closure. Craig
Would, Deborah's brother, told The Mirror

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in two nineteen, I really believe
he killed my sister, and I'm going

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to write to him and ask him
to see me. There's far too many

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coincidences. The police told us she
was jumped in a blanket and wrapped him

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bimbags like his other victim. It
also said in the coroner's report that she

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was kept in cold storage and why
would she be in that area. She

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had no links there and Taylor only
lived a short walk away. He's not

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getting out now, so he should
admit to this crime. If I saw

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him, I'd say you've had a
bad life and it's time to come clean.

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You've caused so much misery for all
these years. He needs to let

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people like me and my mom and
our family get some peace while we're still

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alive. Deborah's mum Linda also stated, I want him to put me out

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of my misery before I go.
I'm sure it him. When I saw

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his eyes, they sent chills through
me. I want to see him face

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to face and just ask him tell
me the truth. This has been twenty

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three years of her I can't describe
the pain at this moment. There is

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nothing concrete linking Taylor to the other
murders and they're still unsolved. Police have

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to, of course keep an open
mind about what could have happened to Deborah,

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and there may be many other people
out there who are possible suspects and

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could be responsible for her murder.
In twenty twenty one, Detective Inspector Paul

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Conroy from West Yorkshire's Operation Recall Team
appealed for information about Deborah's murder, saying

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this crime may now be twenty five
years old, but time doesn't diminish our

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resolve to bring the person or persons
responsible for this horrendous crime to justice,

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and likewise, her grieving family want
answers about what happened to Deborah. I

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would appear to anyone who knows anything
about this case. To examine the conscience

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and come forward. Your information could
make all the difference. Deborah was given

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no dignity in death, with her
body being burned to the extent that she

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was only identified using dental records and
DNA. Previous attempts to bring her killer

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to justice, including an appeal and
reconstruction on BBC's Crime Watch, have so

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far failed. Hopefully, with the
passage of time, people may feel more

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comfortable are able to come forward and
tell us what happened. As with all

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unsolved murder inquiries, the case remains
under investigation and a thorough forensic review remains

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ongoing. This is where Deborah's case
is at the moment, with appeals still

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being made by the police to try
and track down Deborah's killer. It's tragic

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that all of these years later,
we still do not know who did this

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to her, and this is the
same for yvon Fit, Donna Healy and

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Lindsay Joe Rymer, who are often
spoken about together. Was this the work

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of one person? Are any of
these crimes connected. We don't know,

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and police have certainly not officially connected
any of them. I'm sure there's a

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lot of work happening behind the scenes
on DNA profiling and matching, and this

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may well eventually crack the case.
However, it could also be cracked by

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someone coming forward with any information that
they have. If you know anything about

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Deborah, Yvonne Lindsay or Donna's murders, then please contact West Yorkshire Police on

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