Over fifty years have passed since the killings of Jacci Ansell-Lamb, and Barbara Mayo, and yet both remain unsolved. Here, in the second in a series of special reports, the first of which looked at Jacci's murder, Manchester Evening News chief reporter Neal Keeling looks back on a case which shocked Britain.
Seven months after the murder of Jacci Ansell-Lamb, 18, killed as she hitchhiked from London to Manchester, another young woman hitchhiker was brutally killed. It triggered one of the largest police investigations Britain had ever seen at the time.
Barbara Janet Mayo was a seasoned traveller. The English graduate had hitched her way around Europe after completing her studies. A trainee teacher, she made money on the side dealing in cars.
