Days turned to weeks, weeks to months, months to years, years to decades. Roy's murderer was free to travel around the countryside and towns across the United Kingdom, undetected. Almost 33 years later, the law would catch up with him, but perhaps some of his crimes were left behind…
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MUSIC:
modum by Kai Engel
I Am a Man Who Will Fight for Your Honor by Chris Zabriskie
Snowmen by Kai Engel
Casual Desire by Ugonna Onyekwe
Peace by HOVATOFF
Meekness by Kai Engel
Fuscia by Sextile
Gaia in Fog by Dan Bodan
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REFERENCES:
NEWSPAPER ARCHIVES
Birmingham Daily Post - Saturday 27 April 1968
Daily Mirror - Saturday 27 April 1968
Reading Evening Post - Saturday 27 April 1968
Sunday Mirror - Sunday 28 April 1968
The People - Sunday 28 April 1968
Daily Mirror - Monday 29 April 1968
Newcastle Journal - Monday 29 April 1968
Aberdeen Evening Express - Tuesday 30 April 1968
Belfast Telegraph - Tuesday 30 April 1968
Birmingham Daily Post - Tuesday 30 April 1968
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 30 April 1968
Daily Mirror - Tuesday 30 April 1968
Newcastle Evening Chronicle - Tuesday 30 April 1968
Aberdeen Press and Journal - Wednesday 01 May 1968
Birmingham Daily Post - Wednesday 01 May 1968
Daily Mirror - Wednesday 01 May 1968
Reading Evening Post - Saturday 04 May 1968
The People - Sunday 05 May 1968
Coventry Evening Telegraph - Tuesday 15 October 1968
Daily Mirror - Wednesday 16 October 1968
DIGITAL ARTICLES
BIRMINGHAM MAIL
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/ex-detective-claims-vital-evidence-19322924
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/bones-discovered-near-jaguar-land-19300509
SURREY LIVE
https://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/local-news/dorking-businessman-remembers-day-before-4858436
BBC NEWS
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1657754.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/1659723.stm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-38393188
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6158616.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6145998.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3141573.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/6103468.stm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-36681694
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37999316
COVENTRY TELEGRAPH
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/mark-billington-murder-coventry-birmingham-17979373
https://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/hanged-boy-probe-reopens-3172681
TELEGRAPH
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1362533/Child-murder-cases-reopened-as-DNA-test-traps-1968-sex-attacker.html
THE GUARDIAN
https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2006/nov/15/ukcrime.rosiecowan
DAILY MAIL
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4055540/Brother-schoolboy-13-feared-dead-friend-11-vanished-Boxing-Day-1996-speaks-time-family-s-agony-begs-information-come-forward.html
NATIONAL ARCHIVES
https://discovery.nationalarchives.gov.uk/details/r/C6145520
OTHER
http://www.open.ac.uk/Arts/history-from-police-archives/RB1/Pt3/pt3Tuthill68.html
http://www.brockhamhistory.org/brockham-people/police/roy-tutill/
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