Lindsay Jo Rimer

Lindsay Jo Rimer was found dead in the Rochdale Canal.

She had been strangled.

She was last seen at a Spa shop in Hebden Bridge near where she lived at 10.22pm on the Monday evening 7 November 1994, where she bought some cornflakes.

It is thought that she had been abducted.

Her body was found five months later in the Rochdale Canal about two miles upstream of where she had lived by two canal workers near the Aquaspersions mill. Her body had been weighted down with a 20lb boulder

A 63-year-old man from Bradford was arrested for her murder in November 2016 and a second man later arrested in April 2017 but later released without charge.

Detectives said that they were hoping that developments in DNA analysis would take the case forward.

Lindsay Rimer had lived at home with her parents and two sisters at 3 Cambridge Street in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire and had gone to Calder High School where she was in Year 9.

She had left her home at 10pm to go to the Spar supermarket in Crown Street and had stopped on the way there at the Trades Club pub where her mother was having a drink with a friend. It was heard that her mother had asked Lindsay Rimer if she had wanted to stay with them at the pub and have a soft-drink, but that Lindsay Rimer had said that she didn’t and had then gone off to the Spa supermarket.

She was recorded on CCTV at the Spa supermarket at 10.22pm but never seen again.

Lindsay Rimer didn't return home and she didn't turn up for her paper-round the following morning.

Her body was found on 12 April 1995 in the Rochdale Canal. Her post-mortem stated that she had been strangled and stated that there were no signs of any sexual assault having taken place.

Lindsay Rimer was, white, 5ft 3in tall, with hazel eyes, a fair complexion and brown shoulder-length hair that she tied back in a pony tail. When she went missing, she had been wearing dark jeans, trainers and a light-grey hooded sweatshirt that had the motif 'Dosse Posse' on it with a picture of a pair of trainers on the back.

The police said that they spoke to over 5,000 people and took hundreds of statements.

They said that they thought that the key to solving her murder lay in the upper Calder Valley.