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Carolyne Anne Jackson

Age: 50

Sex: female

Date: 13 Apr 1997

Place: Apple Tree Cottage, Burghers Hill, Wooburn Green, High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire

Carolyne Jackson was found dead in her kitchen having been tied up, beaten about the head and asphyxiated.

She was an antique jewellery dealer and had worked from home where she lived alone in what was described as a country cottage. However, it was noted that her home was rented. She was also known as Carolanne.

It was thought that she had been beaten in an attempt to get her to provide the details of how to get into her safe where she kept a large amount of jewellery.

However, the police said that they were unable to open her safe to determine whether anything had been taken from it.

The police said that they thought that she had been attacked as she was unloading her Toyota Lexus car in her gravel drive at about 10pm and going into her house after just getting back from a trip abroad on the Friday evening.

Her body was discovered by a friend who had called at her cottage at 8.30am on the Sunday.

The police said, 'She had suffered head injuries. We believe she was murdered during a robbery which occurred shortly after she arrived home on Friday evening'.

She had had her hands and feet tied together and amongst the items taken was her Rolex watch and three rings. It was noted that the contents of her cupboards and drawers had been strewn across the floor.

However, her cause of death could not be determined as there were no strangulation marks or anything such as a pillow that she could have been suffocated with.

The police determined that she had withdrawn cash from a bank in Penn Road, Beaconsfield at 9.30pm on 11 April 1997 and appealed for anyone that might have remembered seeing her. She was said to have been wearing a fawn ankle length raincoat, a red cardigan and skirt, diamond pattern navy tights and navy shoes.

It was heard that she had also previously complained to the police at least twice about someone stalking her. In February 1997 she had complained that she had been followed by a vehicle near her home and then later saw a man standing outside her house. However, the police searched the area around her house with tracker dogs but could find no trace of the man. The police added that she had also reported other incidents.

The police said that they thought that she had been targeted by a person that had known the sort of items that she had at her house and that they might have been hanging about and waiting for her for a while over the previous days or weeks.

It was also noted that she had been security conscious and had fitted an alarm system to her home.

A neighbour that lived 50 yards away said, 'I'm just glad that we have got good security in our house, especially as I have two young children'. Another neighbour said, 'I saw the police earlier but I had no idea that such a terrible thing had happened. This area is normally so peaceful. It is so off the beaten track'.

The police said that they were examining possible links between her murder and the murder of Janet Brown, a 50-year old nurse, who was murdered two years earlier about twenty miles away in Radnage in Buckinghamshire. They said that there were similarities but that there were no strong links to suggest that the murderer was the same person.


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see Amersham Advertiser - Wednesday 16 April 1997

see Amersham Advertiser - Wednesday 07 May 1997