In 2000, a very beautiful 16-year-old female secondary school student in the United Kingdom took a bus back together after meeting a classmate to visit the mall, and the two got off at the station near their home and walked together for a while.
Picture of Liane Tilnan murder
Then, separated at a fork in the road and headed for their respective homes, the 16-year-old chose a remote path that required passage through a grove of trees to save time.
Originally, this journey only took ten minutes to complete, and out of this wood was her home, but no one expected that the girl would never come out after entering the woods.
Although people then spent a lot of manpower and material resources searching for the girl's traces, the girl seemed to evaporate in the world, leaving no clues, until 9 months later, the girl was accidentally discovered by a dog walker, but her life had long disappeared.
So what happened to this girl? How did the suspect take her away? Hello everyone, I am a student of history, today we will talk about this famous British case - the murder of Leanne Tilnan.
The 16-year-old girl, Liane Tilnan, was born in Leeds, Britain's third-largest city, in September 1984, although her father Michael and mother Sharon divorced when she was very young.
But she has been living with her mother, but she is very cheerful and optimistic, because of her sweet looks and outgoing personality, Liane has many good friends, and Liane's academic performance is particularly good, she was admitted to the famous local Silize High School by her own efforts.
It can be said that at that time, Liane was definitely the pride of her mother and the role model of her classmates, and people were very envious of this girl who was both good and good-looking, but no one expected that bad luck was about to fall on this girl.
It was November 26, 2000, and since it was Sunday and Liane's school was closed, she and her good friend, Sarah, 15, were shopping together.
Shopping is the nature of women, of course, fifteen or sixteen-year-old girls are no exception, although there is no money, but they just enjoy the pleasure of this kind of shopping, but they also know that it was winter, so it was dark very early.
Picture 丨 The two girls returned to the route that day
So, at about four o'clock in the afternoon, they boarded the bus from the city center to their home, and a few tens of minutes later, they successfully arrived at Bramley Station near their home, which was around 16:40.
Although the sun has basically set, they can still see the surrounding road, and the two girls walk hand in hand to the local Hooveri Road, because the two girls' homes are opposite, so they choose to separate here, and the time is around 16:50.
After they arrived home, they called each other to report that they were safe, originally this kind of agreement was just a manifestation of the mutual concern of the two little girls, but no one expected that this agreement had become a farewell.
In order to hurry home, Liane chose a remote and long path that ran through a small forest, although it was inaccessible, but Liane often walked, so she did not take it seriously.
Sarah soon returned to her house after separating from Li'an, and the first thing she did when she got home was to call Liane's house, after all, Liane needed to go through the grove, and Sarah still had some worries.
The phone was quickly connected, but it wasn't Liane on the other end of the phone, but Leanne's mother, Sharon, who told Sarah that Leanne hadn't been home yet.
At this point, Liane's mother and Sarah were a little worried, because the two girls were separated from each other, about the distance from their respective homes, and it was reasonable to say that they should arrive home at the same time.
However, because the two girls were separated, Liane's mother thought that Liane might not arrive home on time because she met friends on the road or went to a nearby store, so Liane's mother did not worry too much.
But when the time came to about 17:20, Liane had not yet arrived home, at this time Liane's mother was a little unable to sit still, she suddenly remembered that Lien had brought a mobile phone when she went out, so she quickly dialed her daughter's phone.
Pictured here is the grove that Leanne intends to walk through
It was at this time that something very strange happened, Andean's mother found that when she dialed her daughter's phone, the phone was hung up after ten seconds, and then she repeatedly dialed her daughter's phone, or after a few rings, she was hung up.
This abnormal behavior worried Liane's mother very much, so she hurried out of the house and walked toward the remote grove, only to walk back and forth along the path without seeing Leanne.
It was already completely dark, and Leanne's mother was very anxious, and after she did not find her daughter in the woods, she began to inquire about the situation at a nearby neighbor's house, but everyone said that they had not seen Leanne.
When it was about 19:00 p.m., because Liane could not be found, Liane's mother chose to call the police, and because Liane belonged to a minor, the police rushed to Liane's house at the first time.
After the police briefly understood Liane's situation, they immediately went to the grove to conduct a search, but after a simple search, they still did not see any trace of Liane, and the police realized that Liane was likely to have encountered an accident.
According to the information provided by Sarah, Liane is likely to be in danger when crossing the grove, in order to find any clues left by Leanne, the police immediately dispatched hundreds of people, and began a careful search of the grove overnight, but found nothing.
Immediately after, the police began to investigate hundreds of homes and shops near the grove, even using helicopters and police dogs, and finally rummaged through the garbage near Lian's house, and found no clues.
As Liane disappeared for longer and longer, local people joined the search for Liane, and the police continued to raise the reward limit, hoping that people would be able to provide useful clues.
Liane's parents also reunited, telling the media that they would never give up looking for Liane, pleading with the public for more help, and hoping that if someone kidnapped Liane, they would be able to release her back.
Pictured by Leanne's parents facing the media
As Liane's parents walked to the media, the whole of The United Kingdom knew the news of Liane's disappearance, and there began to be a crowd of people who had seen people suspected of Li'ann that day, and some people said that they had seen people with strange behaviors near Liane's home.
However, after verification by the police, no effective progress was made, and the disappearance of Liane also reached an impasse, and then the police began to investigate all the sewer pipes and drainage wells near Liane's home, but still found no trace of Liane.
Since then, although the police have continuously expanded the scope of the search, but there is still no breakthrough, with the passage of time, the police and the public have stopped the search, and the mysterious disappearance of Liane has slowly become a suspense case.
But nine months after Liane's disappearance, the local police suddenly received an alarm call on August 20, 2001, when a man named Bissen said he was walking his dog in the woods when he found a humanoid object wrapped in a cover.
Because the shape inside was too human-like, he was afraid that someone had thrown away the body after committing the murder, so he called the police for the first time in a hurry, and the police immediately rushed to the man's location, Lindley Wood, which was tens of kilometers away from Liane's house.
After the police arrived at the scene, they carefully opened the hemp rope outside the cover and found that there was really a deceased person inside, who had his hands tied behind his back, a leather collar for pets around his neck, and multiple plastic bags on his head and body.
Pictured here Lindley Wood where Liane's remains were found
Soon, the police confirmed that the deceased was Liane, who had been missing for 9 months, and the police found that Liane was still wearing a ponytail that she had worn on the day of her disappearance, and also carried a hairpin and hair rope from the day of her disappearance, and it was obvious that Liane had been killed shortly after her disappearance.
And it was death caused by suffocation, that is, strangled. Subsequently, the forensic doctor also judged from the preservation of Liane's remains that she should have been cryopreserved after she was killed, and only recently was the body dumped, otherwise the remains could not have been preserved so well.
Due to the discovery of Liane's remains and the obvious characteristics of his killing, the police escalated the previously characterized disappearance of Liane into a murder case on the day of the discovery of Liane's remains, and immediately launched an investigation.
After a careful investigation of Liane's remains, the police obtained many useful clues, such as finding some red carpet fibers on Liane's clothes, and There is no red carpet in Liane's home, so this carpet fiber is most likely the suspect's family.
Moreover, the police also found a hair that did not belong to Liane on Liane's neck, which was quickly tested to be male hair, so this hair is also likely to be a suspect.
In order to solve the case quickly, the police continued to carry out a careful investigation around Liane's remains, and issued an announcement to the public, hoping that the public would provide the suspicious persons who had appeared near LindleyWood in the recent period.
Soon, a large number of people provided clues to the police, and the police combined the investigation situation and the clues provided by the masses to collect the DNA of more than 200 people.
At the same time as the police collected DNA, the officers investigating the items on Liane's remains also had a breakthrough, they found that the collar around Liane's neck was very special, and then investigated the manufacturers and sellers of the collar.
Picture 丨 Liane photo
According to the information provided by the manufacturer and seller, the police found that before Liane's disappearance, 3 of the collars had been mailed by courier to Leeds, the city where Liane lived, and then the police immediately retrieved the information of these 3 recipients.
It turned out that one of the people named John Taylor was very suspicious, he was born in August 1956, he was 44 years old at the time of the crime, divorced four years before the crime, he is currently living alone, and his home is only 1.2 kilometers away from Liane's home.
The police also found that the man, John, had been seen near LindleyWood because there had been a report from the public that he had appeared near LindleyWood, so his DNA information had been collected by the police a few days earlier and was currently waiting in line for testing.
When the police asked John why he bought this collar, John replied that he had a lot of small animals and that the collar was used to tie dogs.
John's neighbor also said that John took in a lot of small animals and was a very loving middle-aged man, so could such a caring person commit a crime? The police believe that everything should be based on evidence.
Soon, the laboratory staff reported that John's DNA was identical to the DNA of the male hair found on Liane's neck, and John was listed as the top suspect.
Police then launched an investigation into John's social connections, and when the police found John's ex-girlfriend, the woman said that John had taken her to the grove where Liane had disappeared to walk her dog, and that John had many special habits.
Before that, when the police questioned John, John said that he had never been to the grove, it was obvious that John had lied, and based on the above clues, the police immediately launched a search of John's residence.
Pictured by John Taylor
Police soon found the same material of hemp rope and plastic bags in John's home as Onlie's remains, and although the carpet in John's house disappeared, the police found some of the residual fibers in the corner.
After comparison, it was confirmed that the fibers were the same as those found on Leanne's body, and when the police asked where the carpet went, John replied that he burned the carpet because it was dirty, which was obviously not convincing to the police.
In addition, the police also found professionals to collect pollen from John's garden, and found that the pollen was exactly the same as the pollen found in Liane's nasal cavity and skin surface.
At this point, a series of evidence points to John, and he finally admits that he kidnapped Liane, but he does not admit that he deliberately killed Liane.
John said that he had walked his dog alone in the grove near Liane's house on the afternoon of Liane's disappearance, only to find Liane alone through the grove at about 5 p.m. that day.
When he saw Liane's beautiful face, he didn't know why, anyway, his brain was blank at the time, and then he suddenly lost control, grabbed Liane's hair with his backhand, and then tied Liane's hands behind her back with the rope that held the dog in his hand.
Then, he took off his coat, covered Liane's head, and dragged Liane to his house in the dark of night, but when he threw Liane into his bed, Liane suddenly struggled desperately.
While struggling, he accidentally slipped off the bed and fell to the floor with his head on the ground, and John wrapped a scarf around Leanne's neck in order to prevent Liane from being in danger.
But he did not expect Liane to continue to struggle, he did not loosen the scarf in a hurry, so he accidentally strangled Liane to death, when he found that Liane was very scared after death, he wrapped Liane and threw him to Lindley Wood that night.
Picture 丨 Liane life photo
Although John repeatedly said that he did not know why He kidnapped Liane, and that Lillian's death was an accident, the police did not believe John's statement.
Police believe that John tied Liane with a leash to lead the dog, took her back to the bedroom, and threw her on the bed, apparently to assault Liane.
John said that after Leanne's death, he threw Leanne's remains to Lindley Wood, which was obviously a lie, because after forensic examination, Liane's remains should have been frozen for more than 8 months before being thrown away.
Subsequently, the police found 3 huge freezers in John's home, and after careful investigation, it was found that one of the freezers had obviously frozen Leanne, because it found liane's related fine residue inside.
The reason why Leanne was strangled was also deliberately done by John, and the police speculated that it was likely that After Being thrown into bed, Liane struggled fiercely and caused the coat that John put on her head to fall off, so Liane saw John's true face.
In order to prevent Liane from calling the police afterwards, John made a cruel effort to strangle Liane to death. As the police continued to produce evidence, John finally admitted that he had kidnapped and killed Liane, and the real situation was almost exactly the same as the police's speculation.
Eventually, John was sentenced to life imprisonment by the court on July 8, 2002, a year and a half after Liane's murder, but after an in-depth investigation of John, the police believed that John should have committed many cases.
Subsequently, the police investigated cases in Leeds in recent years, which found that at least two cases of teenage girl assault in the last decade or so were linked to John and key evidence was obtained.
John was again indicted and sentenced to life imprisonment without parole, and afterwards the police said that there should be 5 more murders related to John, but because of the long time, it was impossible to obtain key evidence, so John could not be convicted.
Screenshot of a video footage of John Taylor when he was investigated
Although John was eventually punished and imprisoned for the rest of his life, 16-year-old Liane was forever frozen in the most beautiful years.
This case also tells us that girls should not act alone at night, especially not to walk alone on remote paths, because there is a real possibility of danger.
Some people may say that this is the probability of "just in case", but once this probability falls on a specific person, it is 100% for her family and herself, there is no regret medicine in life, safety first!
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