THE WIMBLEDON COMMON KILLER

A year later, Colin Stagg was arrested, only for the judge to throw out the case saying the evidence against him was the result of an elaborate entrapment, and didn’t stand up.  

In the years that followed, detectives investigated every possible lead but, time and again, failed to find Rachel’s killer. Meanwhile, paranoid schizophrenic Robert Napper, prowled the streets of south London attacking others, continuously evading capture.  

Over thirty years since the tragic death on Wimbledon Common, police detectives, and others close to the investigation, including Crimewatch broadcaster Sue Cook, speak out - many for the first time - about what went wrong. How was Robert Napper able to hide for sixteen years in plain sight? How did the police miss vital clues? How many rapes, attacks and other murders was Napper responsible for during that time? And how did the development of new forensic techniques and a chance discovery finally allow this vicious killer to be caught?