The 30 year investigation to find the killer of the Lady in the Lake
ON A warm August evening in the summer of 1997, the telephone rang behind the bar of a Lake District pub.The call was for a young off-duty detective. Divers had come across a suspicious canvas package beneath the lapping waters of one of Cumbria’s most picturesque lakes, trussed up with rope and plastic and weighted down with lead. Inside was a body.Shortly after, Detective Constable Doug Marshall was standing on the shoreline of Coniston Water. High-powered lamps illuminated the crime scene. He...