US EditionMan, 92, found guilty of rape and murder nearly 60 years ago
- A 92-year-old man, Ryland Headley, was found guilty on June 30, 2025, at Bristol Crown Court of raping and murdering Louisa Dunne in 1967 in Easton, Bristol.
- The case was reopened in 2023 after DNA testing of evidence from the original investigation linked Headley to the crime, ending a nearly 58-year cold case.
- Headley was previously imprisoned for raping two older women in Ipswich during the late 1970s before his November 2024 arrest at his home on suspicion of murdering Louisa Dunne.
- Prosecutor Anna Vigars KC stated Headley "has a tendency" to attack elderly women, while DNA evidence was described as a billion times more likely to belong to him than anyone else.
- The conviction highlights the value of cold case reviews and suggests police are investigating possible links to other unsolved crimes involving Headley.
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A 92-year-old Briton was sentenced to the maximum sentence of life imprisonment on Tuesday for the cold-blooded murder and rape of a woman in 1967.
A 92-year-old man has been convicted in Britain for a murder almost 60 years ago. According to reports, it is the oldest so-called Cold Case in British police history. A Cold Case is an unresolved case in which investigations are resumed only after many years. Often DNA analysis plays a significant role.A jury in Bristol found the man guilty of having raped and strangled a 75-year-old woman in her own home in 1967. The sentence is announced at a…
Man, 92, jailed for rape and murder of UK woman in 1967
A 92-year-old man has been told he will die in prison after he was jailed at Bristol Crown Court for life with a minimum term of 20 years for the rape and murder of a woman in 1967, in what is thought to be the UK's oldest solved cold case.
An elderly Briton has been found guilty of a murder and rape that is more than half a century old. Ryland Headley, 92, was arrested in November for what he did to Louisa Dunne in 1967. According to British police, it is the oldest cold case they have ever solved. The 75-year-old widow Dunne was attacked at her home in Bristol on 28 June 1967. Neighbours later reported hearing a scream in the night, but they only realised something was wrong when…
Man, 92, convicted in 1967 rape and murder in one of UK’s oldest cold cases
LONDON, July 1 — A 92-year-old British man was convicted on Monday for a rape and murder committed nearly 60 years ago, in one of the UK’s longest-running cold cases. Ryland Headley was found guilty by a UK court for raping and killing 75-year-old Louisa Dunne after breaking into her house in Bristol, south-west England in June 1967, when he was 34 years old. It is “one of the oldest cold cases to ever be solved in the UK”, the Crown Prosecution…
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