Murder Mile UK True Crime5 Apr 2018

#24 - Canal Killers John Sweeney - Part 2 (Melissa Halstead, Kings Cross, N1)

PART 2 OF 2: On 19th February 2001, ten dismembered body-parts of an unidentified woman were found submerged in the Regent's Canal, in a sickening attacked which matched that of a headless torso found in a Rotterdam Canal a decade earlier. But who were they? And what connected them?

Date: Monday 19th February 2015
Location: Regent's Canal / Battlebridge Basin, Kings Cross, London, N1
Victims: 1 (Melissa Halstead & Paula Fields)
Culprit: John Sweeney

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