Cold case detectives hope a review of an unsolved 1989 murder could help explain why a woman was killed and then dumped 118 miles for her home.
Jeanette Kempton, 32, went missing from Brixton in south London where she lived with her ex-husband and their two teenage sons 30 years ago. Her partly decomposed body was found in a ditch at Wangford near southwold in Suffolk on February 18,1989.
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She had no known links to Suffolk but police think the killer could have done.
Andy Guy, Suffolk Police’s major crime review and unsolved case manager, said the case was reviewed in 2009 and 2016 and “could do with another full forensic review”.
Mr Guy added: “DNA technology has moved on and there are questions I’ve not got the answers to,”
Police have said Ms Kempton was last seen alive leaving The Loughborough Hotel at around 19:15 on February , 1989. On this evening she was seen drinking in a local pub near her home and she went to the hotel with a man who was known to her. Just over two weeks later her body was found by two rabbit hunters on the Earl of Stradbroke’s estate off the A12. Ms Kempton was missing her coat, a shoe, her purse, a wreath for a funeral and jewellery; she had none of her possessions on her.
The cause of death was strangulation.
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Ms Kempton’s body was found on the Earl of Stradbroke’s estate
There were five suspects at one point in the investigation but no one was convicted.
Mr Guy said: “She had no connections to Norfolk and Suffolk and was deposited in a ditch totally out of context.
“There were no witnesses and no forensic clues to take you anywhere.
“But there could be someone out there who knows something and that could turn things around very quickly.”
The case was featured on BBC One’s Crimewatch in May 1989 in an attempt to get more information but the appeals led to no further insight about what had happened.
