A6 KILLING
Scientist Michael Gregsten, 36, was shot dead and his girlfriend Valerie Storie, 22, raped in their car on the A6, near Bedford, in August 1961. She survived five gunshots, but was left paralysed.
James Hanratty, 25, was arrested. Convicted of murder, in 1962 Hanratty was one of the last people to be executed in the UK. His family protested his innocence and, in 2001, his body was exhumed for DNA evidence - which the Court of Appeal said proved his guilt ‘beyond doubt'.
MISSING TEEN FOUND DEAD
In August 1961, Jacqueline Thomas, 15, from Birmingham, went missing. She was found dead - sexually abused, strangled. The case was unsolved until, after a cold-case review in 2007, Anthony Hall, 70, was charged.
However, Hall was already in prison for…
