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Liverpool Echo
Liverpool Echo
National
Jonathan Humphries

Mum left home after untraced phone call and was never seen alive again

On a summer's night in 1991 a popular mum-of-two received a phone call, left her six-year-old son in the care of a neighbour and disappeared into the night.

Veronica Anderson, known as Vera, seemed to think she would not be gone long, telling her neighbour she had an "appointment", and leaving the TV switched on. But the 42-year-old never returned to her home in Hadfield Close, Widnes.

Vera was found slumped over the front seats of her blue X-reg Ford Cortina car with her throat slashed, on land off Tannery Lane in Penketh, Warrington, in the early hours of August 25, that year. No-one has ever been charged in connection with her death.

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