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{{Short description|1986 disappearance of woman in London}}
{{Use British English|date=March 2012}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=October 2020}}
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| birth_place        = [[Cheltenham]], [[Gloucestershire]], England, UK<ref>{{cite news | title=Suzy Lamplugh: What do we know about the missing estate agent? | website=BBC News | date=31 October 2018 | url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46044054 | access-date=25 June 2023 | archive-date=25 June 2023 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230625163446/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46044054 | url-status=live}}</ref>
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| disappeared_place  = [[Fulham]], [[London]], England, UK
| disappeared_status = {{Missing for|1986|7|28}}; [[Declared death in absentia|declared dead ''in absentia'']] on 27 July 1993
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'''Susannah Jane Lamplugh''' ({{IPAc-en|ˈ|l|æ|m|p|l|uː}}; born 3 May 1961)<ref>{{Cite book |last=McGredy-Hunt |first=Graham |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eqGYAwAAQBAJ&q=%22Susannah+Jane+Lamplugh+was+born+on%22 |title=Searching for Suzy |date=January 2012 |publisher=[[Lulu.com]] |isbn=978-1-4478-0425-3 |page=14}}</ref> was a British [[estate agent]] reported missing on 28 July 1986 (aged 25) in [[Fulham]], [[London]], England, United Kingdom. She was officially declared dead, presumed [[murder in English law|murder]]ed, in 1993.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Batty |first=David |date=22 February 2008 |title=Police investigate 'link' between Wright and Suzy Lamplugh |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/22/suffolkmurders.law |access-date=2 April 2009 |archive-date=24 October 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151024094531/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/22/suffolkmurders.law |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":0" /> The last clue to Lamplugh's whereabouts was an appointment to show a house in Shorrolds Road to someone she called Mr. Kipper. The case remains unsolved with Lamplugh still missing, and is considered the world's most extensive missing persons inquiry.<ref>{{cite book |last1=Stephen |first1=Andrew |title=The Suzy Lamplugh Story |date=1988 |publisher=Faber and Faber |isbn=0-571-15415-8 |location=London |page=4 |quote=For the detectives, the routine police file opened on the evening she did not return - file FF584/1/54 - had developed into the biggest and most involved missing person inquiry in history.}}</ref>

[[John Cannan]] (1954–2024), a convicted criminal responsible for the murder of Shirley Banks in 1987 and many other [[rape in English law|rapes]], [[kidnapping|abductions]] and attempted abductions since his release from prison three days before Lamplugh's disappearance, was the only suspect in the murder of Lamplugh. In November 2002, the [[Crown Prosecution Service]] concluded that there was insufficient evidence to [[criminal charge|charge]] Cannan, but police announced at a press conference their belief that he had murdered Lamplugh. 

Cannan claimed to know who had killed Lamplugh and that the culprit was also responsible for the murder of Banks.<ref name="Real Crime">{{Cite AV media |title=Real Crime: Suzy Lamplugh |date=12 September 2001 |type=Television production |work=[[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]}}</ref> He was known to have appeared uninvited at a house that was for sale in Shorrolds Road in the days before Lamplugh's disappearance, believing that the young female occupant was alone in the house, and acted strangely until the woman's husband appeared, causing Cannan to quickly leave. [[DNA evidence]] has also shown that Lamplugh had previously been in a car that Cannan owned at the time of her disappearance.

==Disappearance==
[[File:Shorrolds Road, Fulham (geograph 4394969 by Oast House Archive, cropped).jpg|thumb|The 37 Shorrolds Road property can be seen in the centre by the second tree from the left (a white building with no railings).<ref name="Crimewatch" />]]Suzy Lamplugh was an [[estate agent]] working for an agency called Sturgis at 654 Fulham Road, [[London]]. She was reported missing after an appointment to show a house in Shorrolds Road, [[Fulham]] to a man calling himself Mr. Kipper.<ref>{{Cite news |date=28 May 2000 |title=Fresh lead in Lamplugh case |work=[[BBC News]] |type=archive |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/767097.stm |access-date=2 April 2009 |archive-date=2 December 2002 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20021202035028/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/767097.stm |url-status=live}}</ref> Her office diary recorded the details of the appointment as: "12.45 Mr. Kipper – 37 Shorrolds O/S" (the "O/S" annotation signifies "outside the property").<ref name="Crimewatch" /> Three witnesses saw Lamplugh outside 37 Shorrolds Road between 12:45 and 1:00 p.m.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> A man walking home past the house saw Lamplugh at the gateway of the property at 12:50 p.m., and she seemed to be waiting for someone.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> Ten minutes later, the owner of the house next door heard someone leaving #37 and saw Lamplugh and a man leaving the house and looking back up at it.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> This sighting was later the basis of an [[identikit]] of the unidentified male.<ref name="Crimewatch" />{{Location map many | United Kingdom London Hammersmith and Fulham
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1. Sturgis estate agents, where Suzy was working the day she disappeared.<br/>
2. 12:45 – 1:00 p.m. sightings at 37 Shorrolds Road<br/>
3. 10:00 p.m. Location Suzy's white Ford Fiesta works car found by police.<br/>
4. Sighting driving north with a man, 2:45 p.m.<br/>
5. Wormwood Scrubs prison hostel<br/>
6. Prince of Wales pub where her diary was taken<br/>
7. Sighting of a woman fighting with a man in a BMW car that afternoon
<ref name="Crimewatch">{{Cite AV media |title=Crimewatch, 16/10/1986 |date=16 October 1986 |type=Television programme |publisher=[[BBC One]] |time=17:38–28:32 |people=[[Crimewatch]]}}</ref><ref name="TheMan?">{{Cite AV media |title=The Man Who Killed Suzy Lamplugh? |date=2002 |type=Television documentary |publisher=[[Channel 5 (UK)|Channel 5]] |people=Real Life Media Productions}}</ref>
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}}The sighting of the pair standing outside the house was corroborated by another man who was walking past the property at around the same time.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> He noticed that the man was holding a bottle of [[champagne]] with ribbons around it.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> This sighting was later the basis of another identikit picture drawn of the man.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> Witnesses reported that they then saw the pair entering a car.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Newton |first=Michael |url=https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780816078189 |title=The Encyclopedia of Unsolved Crimes (Facts on File Crime Library) |date=October 2009 |publisher=[[Infobase Publishing]] |isbn=978-0-8160-7818-9 |edition=2nd |pages=213–214 |access-date=7 November 2018 |archive-date=8 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181108065434/https://isbnsearch.org/isbn/9780816078189 |url-status=live }}</ref> The neighbour thought that the pair had been arguing before entering the car.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=68}} Witnesses described the man as a white male between 25 and 30, with a dark complexion and with dark hair swept back.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> He was immaculately dressed in a dark charcoal suit, and was described as a "[[public school (United Kingdom)|public schoolboy]] type".<ref name="Crimewatch" /> He may have had a broken nose.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> A man said that he had seen a "couple arguing" between 2:00 and 2:30 p.m. in the area.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> There was then a sighting of Lamplugh driving her car erratically away from Shorrolds Road, arguing with the man in the car, causing the witness to swerve to avoid a collision.<ref name="TheMan?" /> Lamplugh's white [[Ford Fiesta Mk2|Ford Fiesta]] (registration B396 GAN) was sighted poorly parked outside a garage opposite 123 Stevenage Road, about {{convert|1|mi|1}} away, by several witnesses at various points in the afternoon.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> However, her close friend Barbara Whitfield insisted that she had seen Lamplugh driving north up the Fulham Palace Road in her car with a man at around 2:45 p.m.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> Whitfield waved to Lamplugh as she cycled south down the road, but Lamplugh was talking to her passenger and did not see her.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> As Whitfield was the only witness that day who actually knew Lamplugh, her sighting was afforded significant weight.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> A woman living at 139 Stevenage Road also reported possibly seeing Lamplugh with a smartly dressed man wearing a suit by the spot where her car was seen parked.<ref name="Real Crime" />[[File:Not a Match Day - geograph.org.uk - 1428573.jpg|thumb|The entrances to [[Fulham F.C.]]'s [[Craven Cottage]] on Stevenage Road, where Lamplugh was seen struggling with a man in a dark-coloured, left-hand drive [[BMW]] driving south.]]By 3:30 p.m., Lamplugh's colleagues at the estate agency were becoming concerned that she had not returned.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> At 4:30, they travelled to 37 Shorrolds Road to see if she was there, but she was not.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> At 5:30, they called the police to report her [[missing person|missing]].<ref name="Crimewatch" /> 

At 10:00 p.m., a police officer found Lamplugh's car parked in the same spot at which it had been sighted that afternoon, which was by another house for sale.<ref name="Crimewatch" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Bennetto |first=Jason |date=27 July 2001 |title=Lamplugh police to re-examine unknown bodies |work=[[The Independent]] |location=London |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lamplugh-police-to-re-examine-unknown-bodies-9162203.html |access-date=6 November 2018 |archive-date=7 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107121104/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/lamplugh-police-to-re-examine-unknown-bodies-9162203.html |url-status=live}}</ref><ref name="TheVanishing" /> The vehicle appeared to have been parked in haste, as the driver's door was open, the [[Parking brake|handbrake]] was not enabled and the key was missing.<ref name="Crimewatch" />{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=69}}<ref name="CTSB" /> The car was parked poorly and was partly overlapping a garage.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> Lamplugh's purse was found in the car,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Bennetto |first=Jason |date=13 May 2000 |title=Suzy Lamplugh 'seized by more than one person' |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/suzy-lamplugh-seized-by-more-than-one-person-279043.html |access-date=14 September 2021 |archive-date=19 June 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180619220902/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/suzy-lamplugh-seized-by-more-than-one-person-279043.html |url-status=live }}</ref> but neither her own keys nor the keys to 37 Shorrolds Road were found.<ref name="Crimewatch" /> The driver's seat was pushed back to a position from which Lamplugh would not have been able to drive the car,<ref name="Crimewatch" /><ref name="TheVanishing" /> indicating that someone else had driven the car.<ref name="TheVanishing" />

Police suggested that a black, [[left-hand drive|left-hand-drive]] [[BMW]] vehicle may have been involved following an eyewitness account of a car of that description seen parked in Shorrolds Road.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> The man remembered seeing it because many cars in the road had been [[double parked]], causing him some difficulty driving through the road.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> Another witness corroborated this account and said that he had seen the dark-coloured BMW parked almost outside 37 Shorrolds Road.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=74–75}} Witnesses also said that they had seen two white Ford Fiestas parked in Shorrolds Road that day.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=74–75}} 

A witness emerged some time later with another significant sighting.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="TheMan?" /><ref name="CTSB">{{Cite AV media |title=Crimes that Shook Britain: Suzy Lamplugh |date=25 October 2015 |type=Television production |work=Crime+ Investigation}}</ref><ref name="TheVanishing" /> The witness had offered information after the disappearance, but his account was dismissed at that time because he had described a blond-haired woman, and the police incorrectly assumed that Lamplugh had brown hair when she vanished.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tendler |first=Stewart |date=22 June 2000 |title=Photo misled Lamplugh case witness |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> The witness was jogging when he saw a car speeding south down Stevenage Road (the same road in which Lamplugh's car was later found abandoned) as he emerged from Bishop's Park into the road at the exit by [[Fulham F.C.]]'s [[Craven Cottage]] stadium.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="TheMan?" /> The car, which he noticed was a dark-coloured left-hand-drive BMW, suddenly stopped further down the road and a woman who matched Lamplugh's appearance was seen struggling with a man inside the car and sounding the horn in an apparent attempt to attract attention.<ref name="TheMan?" /><ref name="Real Crime" /> In his description of the incident, the witness stated: 

{{quote|I came out of the park to be met by a BMW which tore across the road and came to a halt with somebody with their hand on the hooter, pressing it for a very long time. As I stood there I saw a blonde young lady. She looked as though she was laughing, or she could have been screaming. What worried me was how could she drive with what was going on? But it never occurred to me that it was a left-hand drive car.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="TheMan?" />}} A sighting was also reported witnessing a woman matching Suzy's appearance on the adjacent Langthorne Street.

==Initial investigations==
===Missing-person inquiry===
[[File:Ford Fiesta white side.jpg|thumb|A white Ford Fiesta Mk2, similar to Lamplugh's car that was found abandoned.<ref name="Crimewatch" />]]
Lamplugh's boyfriend, a 27-year-old [[stockbroker]], and her male flatmate were both questioned by police, but both had solid [[alibi|alibis]] with corroborating witnesses.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=69}} Lamplugh's two-bedroom flat in [[Putney]] was searched, but nothing notable or suspicious was found.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=68}}<ref name="TheVanishing" /><ref name="InTheFootsteps" /> It was soon suggested in the press that if Mr. Kipper's first name was Dan, the combined would be an [[anagram]] of "kidnapper".{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=72}}<ref name="TheVanishing" /> Lamplugh's office manager revealed that a bunch of red [[roses]] had been delivered to the office by a mystery man just days before she had disappeared.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=71}}<ref name="TheMan?" />

Police released a photo of Lamplugh with dark brown hair, but she had tinted her hair blond on the Friday before she vanished.<ref name="Real Crime" /> The initial investigation was conducted without computers, using an old-fashioned card-index system in which all leads were filed on approximately 26,000 cards.<ref name="Real Crime" /> Because Lamplugh was only considered a missing person, known criminals in the area were not considered as suspects.<ref name="Real Crime" /> 

Six months after Lamplugh's disappearance, a man informed police that he had discovered that a BMW that had been left abandoned in a road for some months was registered to a [[Belgium|Belgian]] man known sometimes as Mr. Kiper,<ref name="TheVanishing" /> and detectives believed that this information was significant.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> However, the car's owner was located in Belgium and had a confirmed alibi for the day of Lamplugh's disappearance, and his BMW had been in a garage in Belgium on that day.<ref name="TheVanishing" />{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=75}} He was swiftly eliminated as a suspect.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=75}}

One year after Lamplugh's disappearance, detectives noted that the artist's impression of Mr. Kipper strongly resembled [[John Cannan]], a convicted rapist (and later abductor and murderer) who had been residing in a nearby [[open prison|prison hostel]] outside [[HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs]] around the time of Lamplugh's disappearance.<ref name="Real Crime" /> In 1980, he had raped and beaten his girlfriend when she tried to leave him, and he raped a shopkeeper at knifepoint in 1981.<ref name="Real Crime" /> Cannan had been on day release from the prison in the months preceding Lamplugh's disappearance and held a job in the area as a [[porter (carrier)|porter]].<ref name="Real Crime" /> He was public school-educated<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lockley |first=Mike |date=23 June 2022 |title=Killer still pulling strings from his prison deathbed; Brother of missing estate agent urges terminally ill prime suspect to end years of 'toying with detectives'. |work=Birmingham Mail |url=https://www.thefreelibrary.com/Killer+still+pulling+strings+from+his+prison+deathbed%3b+Brother+of...-a0707993085 |access-date=17 July 2022}}</ref> and was known for his ability to attract women. In the weeks before Lamplugh disappeared, Cannan had told inmates and workmates that he was frequenting wine bars in [[Fulham]] and had met a new "uptown" girlfriend named Susu.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="TheMan?" /> Lamplugh had visited some of the wine bars, including one located opposite from her office.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=77}}<ref name="InTheFootsteps" /> Cannan also frequented a pub in Putney that Lamplugh visited on 25 July 1986, the same day on which Cannan was released from prison, three days before Lamplugh's disappearance.<ref name="TheMan?" /><ref name="Real Crime" /> Cannan confirmed in 2021 that he had visited the bars and pubs.<ref name="InTheFootsteps" /> He often delivered roses to women as a romantic ploy{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=75}}<ref name="TheMan?" /> and had told people that he was interested in buying a property in the area.<ref name="Real Crime" />

In June 1987, Lamplugh's mother Diana said that she believed that her daughter was dead.<ref name="Real Crime" />
{{gallery
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|File:Northern part of Stevenage Road, looking towards Craven Cottage (cropped).png
|The northern part of Stevenage Road where Lamplugh's car was found abandoned.<ref name="Crimewatch" />
|File:Craven Cottage from the air (geograph 4604541 by Thomas Nugent).jpg
|[[Craven Cottage]] and Stevenage Road, Fulham. Lamplugh's car was found abandoned toward the northern end of the road, and she was sighted struggling with a man in a car by the southeast corner of the stadium.<ref name="Crimewatch" /><ref name="TheMan?" />
|File:E21 BMW 316.jpg
|A dark-coloured [[BMW E21]] similar to the car in which Lamplugh was seen struggling with a man.<ref name="Real Crime" />{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007}}
}}

===Shirley Banks and Cannan links investigated===
{{See also|Murder of Shirley Banks}}
In October 1987, 15 months after Lamplugh's disappearance, John Cannan abducted and murdered 29-year-old Shirley Banks from [[Bristol]]. He attempted to rape two women in a shop three weeks later after driving to the shop in his black BMW.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="TheVanishing" /> He had also tried to abduct a woman the night before he had abducted Banks and had been visiting wine bars in Bristol to search for victims.<ref name="CTSB" /><ref name="TheMan?" /> He had held Banks hostage in his flat for 18 hours before killing her and dumping her at a site in the [[Quantock Hills]] known as [[Dead Woman's Ditch]].<ref name="Real Crime" /> Inside his dark BMW was found an [[prop gun|imitation handgun]], [[handcuffs]] and the [[Vehicle Excise Duty|tax disc]] for Banks' car.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> Soon after Cannan was arrested, Banks' [[Mini]] car was found hidden in his garage, with a new, false number plate affixed reading "SLP 386S".<ref name="Real Crime" /> 

Detectives later noted that the letters SLP could stand for Suzy Lamplugh and the number 86 for 1986, the year in which she vanished.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="Crimewatch" /> The media began to note the likeness between Cannan and the photofit in the Lamplugh case, and speculated about a link between the Banks and Lamplugh cases.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="Crimewatch1989">{{Cite web |last=Sue Cook (presenter) |author-link=Sue Cook |date=16 August 1989 |title=Crimewatch File – August 1989 (16.08.89) – The Shirley Banks Murder |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGljgtJQjU |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/sPGljgtJQjU |archive-date=2021-12-21 |publisher=Crimewatch (BBC) |format=TV Documentary}}{{cbignore}}</ref> It was also known that Cannan had joined a [[dating agency]] in Bristol weeks before he had murdered Banks, providing a false name of John Peterson, and had presented himself in a recorded video as a successful, smartly dressed businessman.<ref name="TheVanishing" /><ref name="Real Crime" /> The video remains publicly available.<ref name="TheVanishing" />

[[Metropolitan Police]] detectives travelled to [[Bristol]] to interview Cannan about the Lamplugh disappearance.<ref name="Real Crime" /> When he was asked by detectives if he understood the significance of the number plate, he replied that it could be seen as a reference to Suzy Lamplugh, whom the detectives had not yet mentioned.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> However, Cannan claimed that he had chosen the letters for the plate at random.<ref name="Real Crime" />{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=79}} He claimed that he had bought the car from a "Bristol businessman" who was responsible for "the murders of Shirley Banks, Suzy Lamplugh and [[#Links to Sandra Court murder|another girl]]" and that the man was in a great deal of trouble.<ref name="Real Crime" /> Cannan was known for masquerading as a Bristol businessman.<ref name="Now" /><ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="CTSB" /> When asked if the man was himself, Cannan provided an affirmative response but immediately recanted and ended the interview because he was overcome with emotion.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="TheVanishing" />

Cannan was sentenced to [[life imprisonment]] for the murder of Banks and for several other rapes, abductions and attempted abductions.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="Crimewatch1989" /> He was also convicted of the rape of a woman in [[Reading, Berkshire|Reading]] on the train line between London and Bristol, six weeks after his release from Wormwood Scrubs prison.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="Crimewatch1989" /> The sentencing judge told Cannan "you should never again be at liberty outside of prison walls."<ref name="Real Crime" /> Further interviews were conducted with Cannan regarding Lamplugh's disappearance in 1988, 1989 and 1990.<ref name="Guardian2018" /> However, he was not placed on an [[identity parade]].<ref name="TheVanishing" />

In 1990, a woman named Gilly Paige, with whom Cannan had been in a relationship after Lamplugh's disappearance, informed police that Cannan had spoken about the Lamplugh case and told her that Lamplugh was buried at [[Norton Barracks]].<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Alderson |first=Andrew |date=29 April 2001 |title=Police switch search to barracks in West Country |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |location=London |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317673/Police-switch-search-to-barracks-in-West-Country.html |access-date=2 April 2009 |archive-date=29 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629170354/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1317673/Police-switch-search-to-barracks-in-West-Country.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Another former girlfriend of Cannan, Daphne Sargent, also believed Cannan to be responsible, saying: "As soon as I heard about Suzy, I knew it was John. It had all the hallmarks{{px2}}{{mdash}}{{hsp}}right down to the champagne."<ref>{{Cite news |last=Orr |first=Deborah |date=7 December 1999 |title=False hopes that prey on every woman's fear |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/false-hopes-that-prey-on-every-woman-s-fear-1130776.html |access-date=16 July 2022 |archive-date=16 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716101646/https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/false-hopes-that-prey-on-every-woman-s-fear-1130776.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

===Cold case===
In the years after Lamplugh's disappearance, police tested the [[DNA#DNA profiling|DNA]] of 800 [[unidentified decedent|unidentified bodies]] and skeletal remains that matched her description.<ref name="BBC">{{Cite news |date=10 August 2010 |title=Suzy Lamplugh: New search in Worcestershire for body |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10923257 |access-date=8 March 2011 |archive-date=18 August 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110818181812/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-10923257 |url-status=live}}</ref> Lamplugh was officially declared dead at her parents' behest, exactly seven years after her 1986 disappearance, on 27 July 1993.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |date=2011-10-23 |title=Suzy Lamplugh 'declared dead' by her family: Seven years ago today an |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/suzy-lamplugh-declared-dead-by-her-family-seven-years-ago-today-an-estate-agent-vanished-after-taking-mr-kipper-to-view-a-house-now-her-family-has-let-go-of-any-hope-she-is-alive-1487612.html |access-date=2021-06-20 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=24 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210624233004/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/suzy-lamplugh-declared-dead-by-her-family-seven-years-ago-today-an-estate-agent-vanished-after-taking-mr-kipper-to-view-a-house-now-her-family-has-let-go-of-any-hope-she-is-alive-1487612.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=22 February 2008 |title=Suzy Lamplugh Cops Ponder Steve Wright Link |work=[[Daily Record (Scotland)|Daily Record]] |url=http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2008/02/22/suzy-lamplugh-cops-ponder-steve-wright-link-86908-20328014/ |access-date=2 April 2009 |archive-date=10 June 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110610060152/http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/uk-world-news/2008/02/22/suzy-lamplugh-cops-ponder-steve-wright-link-86908-20328014/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was presumed to have been murdered.

==Andrew Stephen book controversy==
In 1988, journalist Andrew Stephen published a highly controversial book on the Lamplugh case.<ref name="Bookreview">{{Cite news |last=Bennett |first=Catherine |date=13 October 1988 |title=The story vanishes |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> The book, which was initially supported by the Lamplugh family before they read its draft versions, included several allegations about Lamplugh's sex life and personal life.<ref name="Yard">{{Cite news |last=Hornsell |first=Michael |date=24 September 1988 |title=Yard steps in to defend personal life of Lamplugh |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref name="FairGame">{{Cite news |last=Purves |first=Libby |date=3 October 1988 |title=Missing, presumed fair game |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref><ref name="Bookreview" /> Stephen suggested that Lamplugh might have been involved in [[prostitution]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Stephen |first=Andrew |title=The Suzy Lamplugh Story |date=1988 |publisher=Faber & Faber |isbn=0-571-15415-8 |page=107}}</ref> The book was widely labelled as salacious and false, and Stephen was accused of [[victim blaming]].<ref name="Bookreview" /><ref name="FairGame" /> In an unprecedented move, the [[Metropolitan Police]] responded to the book by defending Lamplugh's personal life and stating "our investigations revealed nothing more than that Suzy was a modern young woman."<ref name="Yard" /> 

A highly critical review of the book in ''[[The Times]]'' asserted that Stephen had included a large amount of his own speculations on what he called Lamplugh's "quest for sexual fulfilment" because he needed filler material to add to the story.<ref name="Bookreview" /> The Lamplugh family brought legal action and forced Stephen to add a [[disclaimer]] to the book stating that the family did not recognise or accept his portrayal of Lamplugh.<ref name="Bookreview" /><ref name="FairGame" />

==Michael Sams speculation and elimination==
In the mid-1990s, speculation arose that [[Michael Sams]] may have murdered Lamplugh, as he had just been convicted of kidnapping an estate agent named Stephanie Slater in [[Birmingham]], as well as murdering [[Leeds]] prostitute Julie Dart.<ref name="Manarrested">{{Cite news |date=4 December 2000 |title=Man arrested over Suzy Lamplugh murder |work=[[The Guardian]] |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/04/2 |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=15 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715181311/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2000/dec/04/2 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Influenced">{{Cite news |date=27 April 2011 |title=From the Archives: What happened to Suzy Lamplugh? |work=BirminghamLive |url=https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/from-the-archives-what-happened-to-suzy-lamplugh-153340 |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=24 January 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220124041943/https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/local-news/from-the-archives-what-happened-to-suzy-lamplugh-153340 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="InTheFootsteps" /> However, police found no evidence for the theory and discounted it, noting that Sams' crimes were likely to have been influenced by the high-profile Lamplugh case.<ref name="Manarrested" /><ref name="Influenced" /> Furthermore, Sams only had one leg by 1986, and no witness sightings of the man seen with Lamplugh on that day reported him walking with a [[limp]] or having only one leg.<ref name="InTheFootsteps" />

==Case reopened==
===Reinvestigations===
[[File:Photofit of "Mr Kipper", man seen with Suzy Lamplugh on day she disappeared, compared to John Cannan, the chief suspect in the case.png|thumb|The [[photofit]] of the man seen outside 37 Shorrolds Road with Lamplugh in July 1986, compared to John Cannan's arrest photo in October 1987.]]
{{See also|John Cannan}}
In 1999, an internal report by the Metropolitan Police criticised the handling of the original investigation and failure to further investigate John Cannan.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> A new reinvestigation was launched in the early 2000s with a new team whose detectives were directed to determine whether Cannan could be eliminated as a suspect or implicated in Lamplugh's murder.<ref name="Real Crime" /> The reinvestigations established that Cannan could not be eliminated and discovered more evidence that implicated him.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="TheMan?" />  

The paper index cards used in the original investigation were computerised, and investigators learned that several estate agents in Fulham had been visited at the time by a man calling himself Mr. Kipper.<ref name="Real Crime" /> Detectives believed that this had been Cannan seeking potential victims for abduction and murder.<ref name="Real Crime" /> In the late 1970s and into 1980, during the final years of Cannan's troubled marriage to his wife June Vale, there had been a series of mysterious rapes in homes for sale in the [[west Midlands (region)|West Midlands]], where Cannan was living.<ref name="TheMan?" /><ref name="Real Crime" /> The unidentified rapist specifically targeted homes on the market for sale by estate agents and became known as the "house for sale rapist".<ref name="TheMan?" /> 

Twenty women were assaulted and raped in properties in the area, and no one was ever arrested for the crimes.<ref name="TheMan?" /> Police suspect that Cannan was responsible for the crimes, which began as his marriage was failing.<ref name="TheMan?" /> The rapes stopped in early 1980 when Cannan began a new relationship with a woman named Sharon Major.<ref name="TheMan?" /> Detectives would later note that the offences bore all of the hallmarks of Cannan's later crimes and also noted the similarities to the Lamplugh case.<ref name="TheMan?" /> Cannan had appeared uninvited at a house that was for sale in Shorrolds Road days before Lamplugh was last seen, believing that the young female occupant was alone in the house.<ref name="CTSB" /><ref name="Now" /> He acted strangely until the woman's husband appeared, causing him to quickly leave.<ref name="CTSB" /><ref name="Now" />

After new reconstructions were shown on ''[[Crimewatch]]'' in 2000, including correct pictures of Lamplugh with blond hair, new witnesses emerged.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="CTSB" /> The witnesses included a man who said that he had seen a man resembling Cannan looking into the window of Lamplugh's estate agency on the day on which she had disappeared.<ref name="Real Crime" /> Lamplugh had worked at a desk near the window, in part because the office believed that positioning an attractive woman by the window would attract customers.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> Some witnesses also emerged after police showed Cannan's 1987 dating video who positively identified him as a man whom they had seen in Fulham that day.<ref name="TheVanishing" />

During the reinvestigation of the Lamplugh case, a mass of circumstantial evidence was uncovered that pointed to Cannan.<ref name="CTSB" /> It was discovered that Lamplugh had disclosed to relatives shortly before she disappeared that she had a new boyfriend from the Bristol area, where Cannan had moved days after the disappearance and from where his family originated. Lamplugh also told a relative shortly before she vanished that she was concerned about the man and was becoming scared of him.<ref name="CTSB" /><ref name="TheMan?" /> Despite being in prison in the borough of [[Hammersmith and Fulham]] before the disappearance, Cannan denied ever having been to [[Fulham]].<ref name="CTSB" /> Police disproved this claim, as Cannan was known to have had worked as a porter in the area at the time while on day release from the open prison.<ref name="CTSB" /> The witness sightings of a dark, left-hand-drive BMW parked near Lamplugh and in which she was seen struggling were afforded added significance when it emerged that Cannan owned such a car at the time, which he had used to commit crimes with a fellow inmate.<ref name="CTSB" /> Cannan did not have an alibi for the days after leaving prison and claims to not recall where he was at the time, despite having an impeccable memory of other events at the time.<ref name="CTSB" />{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=78–79}} Cannan's nickname in prison was Mr. Kipper because he wore [[kipper tie|kipper-style broad tie]]s.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=77}}<ref>{{Cite news |last=Carter |first=Helen |date=16 November 2002 |title=Lamplugh suspect denies playing games with police |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/16/ukcrime.helencarter |access-date=4 June 2008 |archive-date=21 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121034123/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2002/nov/16/ukcrime.helencarter |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Informant">{{Cite news |last1=Tendler |first1=Stewart |last2=Harvey |first2=Michael |date=6 December 1999 |title=New lead in Lamplugh murder hunt |work=The Telegraph}}</ref>

In December 2000, Cannan was arrested on suspicion of Lamplugh's abduction and murder and interviewed at [[Hammersmith]] police station.<ref name="Real Crime" /> Video footage of parts of the interview were later leaked publicly and are still available{{efn|See [https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers/on-demand/71234-002 ''In the Footsteps of Killers'']}} for public viewing.<ref name="InTheFootsteps" /><ref name="TheVanishing" /> In the footage, Cannan says that there are "one or two things I haven't been caught for".<ref name="InTheFootsteps" /> Over five days of interviews,<ref>{{Cite news |last=Edwards |first=Jeff |date=5 December 2000 |title=5-Day Suzy Quiz; Police question prisoner over 14-year-old murder |page=11 |work=Daily Mirror}}</ref> Cannan did not provide interviewers with any information that could eliminate him from the inquiry and did not provide an alibi for his movements between 25 and 28 July 1986.<ref name="Real Crime" /><ref name="CTSB" /> In September 2001, Cannan was arrested again and questioned at a London police station, but he again provided no information that could eliminate him from the inquiry.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Worrall |first=Boris |date=26 September 2001 |title=Arrest in Suzy murder probe |page=1 |work=Birmingham Evening Mail}}</ref><ref name="Real Crime" />

====Mysterious call on the afternoon of disappearance====
Investigators believe that Lamplugh placed a mysterious phone call during the afternoon in which she disappeared.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=348–350}}<ref name="TheMan?" /> Three days before she disappeared, on the same day on which Cannan was released from the open prison nearby, Lamplugh had visited the Prince of Wales pub in Putney, which was also frequented by Cannan.<ref name="TheMan?" /> While she was there, the contents of her handbag went missing, and after she left they were found by the landlord of the pub.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=348–349}}<ref name="TheMan?" /> The landlord telephoned Lamplugh to inform her and she arranged to collect her belongings at 6 p.m. on Monday 28 July, the day on which she disappeared.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=348–349}} Several hours after Lamplugh vanished, a woman identifying herself as Sarah phoned the pub saying that she had a message for Lamplugh, and she left her number.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=349}} A man then phoned the pub claiming to be a policeman and asking if the pub had Lamplugh's diary and chequebook.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=349}}<ref name="TheMan?" /> The police confirmed the man was not a policeman, and it was not known who Sarah was.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=349}}<ref name="TheMan?" /> The landlord said that he gave the paper upon which he had written the phone number to police, although it was later lost.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=249–350}} 

The first call was placed well before Lamplugh's disappearance had even been reported, and it may have been Lamplugh making a plea for help or calling under duress.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=349}} The man identifying as a policeman may have been Cannan.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=349-350}}<ref name="TheMan?" /> When Shirley Banks had been abducted by Cannan and held hostage in his flat in 1987, she placed a call under duress to her workplace the next morning, stating that she was sick and would not be reporting to work that day.<ref name="duress">{{Cite news |date=22 April 1989 |title=Evil charmer sent to jail for rest of his life |work=Glasgow Herald |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ijNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RFkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3302,4280501 |access-date=16 July 2022 |archive-date=16 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220716144425/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ijNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=RFkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=3302,4280501 |url-status=live }}</ref> It is believed that she placed the call because Cannan had convinced her that he would release her unharmed.<ref name="duress" /> The call was the last message received from her before she was found murdered.<ref name="duress" />

Detectives on the reinvestigation team also believed that Cannan could have been responsible for taking the contents of her handbag in the pub, and stated the events were a clear indicator of [[stalking]].<ref name="TheMan?" />

===Searches for body===
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{{See also|Norton Barracks}}
Based on the evidence, the police began a search for Lamplugh's body.<ref name="CTSB" /> Investigators wanted to dig at Norton Barracks, where Cannan had allegedly told former girlfriend Gilly Paige that the body was buried and which was identified by an anonymous informant in 1999.<ref name="Informant" /><ref name="CTSB" /> The area had been significantly redeveloped in the intervening years, however, the Army having left the site in 1979<ref>{{Cite news |last=Tendler |first=Stewart |date=9 December 2000 |title=Midlands search for Lamplugh body |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> and investigators were not able to dig in the area because of the houses now standing there.<ref name="CTSB" /> 

Detectives considered the possibility that the SLP 386 S number plate that Cannan had attached to Banks' car could be an [[ordnance survey]] [[grid reference]], as this would provide a location very close to Dead Woman's Ditch, where Banks was found dumped.<ref name="Real Crime" /> Cannan was known to play such tricks with investigators, and it was believed that if his decision to dump Banks' body in Dead Woman's Ditch was intentional, the letters and numbers on the plate could have been as well.<ref name="TheVanishing" /><ref name="CTSB" /> As a result, investigators searched the area, but Lamplugh's body was not found.<ref name="CTSB" />

In December 2000, police searched a brickworks near Norton Barracks<ref>{{Cite news |date=11 December 2000 |title=Lamplugh police search for body |work=BBC News |type=archive |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1065321.stm |access-date=8 March 2011 |archive-date=12 May 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140512225334/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/1065321.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> that had been mentioned in several of the original witness statements.<ref name="BBC" /> A year later, another search was conducted in [[Somerset]] at a location by a river that Cannan was said to have frequented.<ref name="CTSB" /> However, no remains were found.<ref name="CTSB" />

===Cannan announced as murderer===
{{quote box|align=right|width=40%|quote="My informed theory is that Suzy was stalked by John Cannan. He probably spoke to her, might even have taken her on a date. Suzy certainly fitted the profile of what John Cannan sought, in that she was blonde, attractive, worked at an estate agent, a very presentable young lady who came from a good family. Little doubt that Cannan stalked her, little doubt that Cannan viewed properties with her, that he observed her through the windows of the estate agents which probably drew him to go in and seek to view properties. I think that Suzy got into a row with Cannan on the day, he abducted her from the car, or made her get into the vehicle he had at the time. There then ensued probably quite a very heated row where he basically drove off abducting her. Where he went from there is a matter of conjecture."|source=—Jim Dickie, 2015. Dickie was the SIO (senior investigating officer) on the Lamplugh reinvestigative team between 2000 and 2006.<ref name="CTSB" /><ref name="TheVanishing" />}}
The Lamplugh case team concluded that there was significant evidence against Cannan to apply for a prosecution.<ref name="Real Crime" /> The [[Crown Prosecution Service]] agreed that the police reinvestigation had been excellent and thorough, but ultimately decided after four months of deliberations<ref>{{Cite news |date=18 October 2002 |title=Lamplugh suspect will not face charges |page=13 |work=The Herald (Glasgow)}}</ref> that there was insufficient evidence to charge Cannan with the murder.<ref name="CTSB" /><ref name="Real Crime" /> The police so strongly felt that Cannan was responsible that they proclaimed such during a press conference in November 2002.<ref name="CTSB" /><ref name="Telegraph2002">{{Cite news |last=Laville |first=Sandra |date=6 November 2002 |title=Police name man who 'killed Suzy Lamplugh' |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1412332/Police-name-man-who-killed-Suzy-Lamplugh.html |access-date=5 July 2015 |archive-date=11 April 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170411230417/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1412332/Police-name-man-who-killed-Suzy-Lamplugh.html |url-status=live }}</ref> They also announced that all other possible suspects had been eliminated and that Cannan was the only suspect.<ref name="Named">{{Cite news |last=Tendler |first=Stewart |date=6 November 2002 |title=Lamplugh suspect named amid fury at police blunders |work=[[The Times]]}}</ref> The lead detective in the reinvestigations, Jim Dickie, stated that he was as certain as possible without conducting a formal judicial process that Cannan was responsible.<ref name="Real Crime" />

The investigation was summarised in an [[ITV (TV channel)|ITV]] ''[[Real Crime]]'' programme in 2002.<ref>{{Cite web |last=ITV |author-link=ITV (TV network) |title=Real Crime – Suzy Lamplugh |date=24 June 2013 |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mnR-tT-0l8&list=PL152bjytsMC7X2jHHtOAKGBeq1bvx87aE |url-status=live |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/varchive/youtube/20211221/7mnR-tT-0l8 |archive-date=2021-12-21 |via=[[YouTube]]}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2007, a criminologist who had corresponded with Cannan revealed that the police reinvestigations of 2000–2002 had discovered DNA evidence in a car previously owned by Cannan that showed that Lamplugh had been inside the vehicle.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=346–347}} The criminologist informed police that Cannan said that he had access to a red [[Ford Sierra]] at the time when Lamplugh disappeared, a fact about which police were previously unaware.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=346–347}} Detectives attempted to find the car and discovered it in a north London scrapyard, allowing them to conduct DNA analysis upon it.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=346–347}}<ref name="TheMan?" /> 

Although these tests indicated that both Lamplugh and Cannan had been in the car, the [[Crown Prosecution Service]] felt that there was insufficient evidence to prove that both had been in the vehicle at the same time, meaning charges could not be brought against Cannan.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=346–347}} Although he previously had said he drove the car often, Cannan subsequently changed his story and denied ever having used the vehicle,{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=346–347}} but the man who had lent it to him confirmed that Cannan had access to the car at the time and said that Cannan may have used it on the day Lamplugh disappeared.<ref name="Loanedcar">{{Cite news |date=3 June 2000 |title=Key witness loaned car to convicted killer |page=4 |work=Birmingham Evening Mail}}</ref>

===Links to Sandra Court murder===
When interviewed about the disappearance of Lamplugh in 1988, Cannan had said that he knew a "Bristol businessman" who was responsible for "the murders of Shirley Banks, Suzy Lamplugh and another girl". Investigators believe that he was talking about himself, as he was convicted of Banks' murder.<ref name="Now" /> The other girl that he mentioned is believed to be Sandra Court, a 27-year-old office worker who was abducted and killed in [[Bournemouth]] in May 1986.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> In November 2001, police interviewed Cannan at a police station in York regarding Court's murder.<ref name="suspect">{{Cite news |date=7 November 2002 |title=Lamplugh suspect linked to killing |publisher=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2416123.stm |access-date=11 February 2011 |archive-date=10 February 2004 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20040210185307/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/2416123.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> He had been in the prison hostel at [[Wormwood Scrubs prison|Wormwood Scrubs]] at the time but was allowed to leave the facility at weekends and had access to a red [[Ford Sierra]], the same car that was tested in the Lamplugh case.<ref name="TheVanishing" /> 

A pay-and-display ticket proves that Cannan was in [[Bournemouth]] on the day that Court was killed.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=63–64}}<ref name="criminologist">{{Cite news |last=Goldby |first=Ben |date=15 August 2010 |title=Criminologist speaks out on details linking Sutton Coldfield sex monster to murder of Suzy Lamplugh |work=Sunday Mercury |url=http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2010/08/15/criminoligist-speaks-out-on-details-linking-sutton-coldfield-sex-monster-to-murder-of-suzy-lamplugh-66331-27063249/ |access-date=11 February 2011 |archive-date=23 July 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110723020656/http://www.sundaymercury.net/news/midlands-news/2010/08/15/criminoligist-speaks-out-on-details-linking-sutton-coldfield-sex-monster-to-murder-of-suzy-lamplugh-66331-27063249/ |url-status=live }}</ref> Court had been dropped off by a taxi driver in [[Throop, Dorset]] near her sister's house after a night out, but her sister was not at home.<ref name="2008letter">{{Cite news |last=Hoskins |first=John |date=10 April 2008 |title=Letter could bring justice 22 years later |work=Southern Daily Echo |url=http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/features/crimefiles/truecrime/2187876.Letter_could_bring_justice_22_years_later/ |access-date=12 February 2011 |archive-date=29 January 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190129010444/https://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/features/crimefiles/truecrime/2187876.Letter_could_bring_justice_22_years_later/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She was last seen walking barefoot, appearing slightly drunk, at around 2:45 a.m.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=64}} Court's body was found the next day in a water-filled ditch several miles away.<ref name=suspect/>{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=64}} When interviewed, Cannan denied having been in Bournemouth on the day in question but was proved to be lying because of the parking tickets discovered by police.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|pp=63–64}} 

When the Ford Sierra was discovered at the north London scrapyard during the Lamplugh reinvestigations of the early 2000s, two hairs were found inside that matched Court's DNA.<ref name="TheVanishing" /><ref name="TheMan?" /> However, the DNA evidence was not strong enough to bring a prosecution against Cannan for her murder.<ref name="TheVanishing" />

==Steve Wright speculation and elimination==
In 1982, Lamplugh had worked as a [[beautician]] on the ocean liner ''[[Queen Elizabeth 2]].'' At the same time, [[Steve Wright (serial killer)|Steve Wright]], who was convicted in February 2008 of the [[Ipswich 2006 serial murders|murder of five women]] in [[Ipswich]], was working as a [[Chief Steward|steward]] on the ''QE2''.<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Armstrong |first1=Jeremy |last2=McGurran |first2=Aidan |date=22 February 2008 |title=Is Steve Wright Mr Kipper in Suzy Lamplugh murder case? |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |location=London |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/02/22/is-steve-wright-mr-kipper-in-suzy-lamplugh-murder-case-115875-20327480/ |access-date=2 April 2009 |archive-date=25 February 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225180134/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2008/02/22/is-steve-wright-mr-kipper-in-suzy-lamplugh-murder-case-115875-20327480/ |url-status=live }}</ref> In 2008, the [[Metropolitan Police]] investigated whether Wright was connected with Lamplugh's disappearance,<ref>{{Cite news |last1=Addley |first1=Esther |last2=McVeigh |first2=Karen |date=22 February 2008 |title=Motive still unknown as serial killer faces rest of life in prison |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/22/suffolkmurders.ukcrime |access-date=4 June 2008 |archive-date=21 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151121022102/http://www.theguardian.com/uk/2008/feb/22/suffolkmurders.ukcrime |url-status=live }}</ref> but this was not a strong line of enquiry and a senior police officer described the link as "speculative".<ref name="speculation">{{Cite news |last=Alderson |first=Anderew [sic] |date=24 February 2008 |title=Steve Wright 'did not kill Suzy Lamplugh' |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579710/Steve-Wright-did-not-kill-Suzy-Lamplugh.html |access-date=31 July 2018 |archive-date=31 July 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180731031452/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1579710/Steve-Wright-did-not-kill-Suzy-Lamplugh.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=14 May 2008 |title=Wright 'not linked to Suzy death' |work=BBC News |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7401250.stm |access-date=14 May 2008 |archive-date=17 May 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080517214347/http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/7401250.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> Police investigated Wright's ''QE2'' work records and found that he was working on the ship on the day that Lamplugh disappeared, meaning that he could not have been responsible for her abduction and murder.<ref name="InTheFootsteps" />

==Later searches==
In August 2010, police began searching a field off the B4084 between [[Pershore]] and [[Drakes Broughton]], about three miles from the former Norton Barracks in Worcestershire where detectives had wanted to search in 2000.<ref name="BBC" /> Investigators also returned to Norton Barracks and subjected it to a limited search, but Lamplugh's remains were not found.<ref name="CTSB" />

In December 2002, one of Cannan's fellow prisoners told police that Cannan had said that he had buried Lamplugh under the patio of his mother's house in [[Sutton Coldfield]] in the [[West Midlands (region)|West Midlands]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=1 December 2002 |title=Police study Lamplugh claims |work=BBC News |type=archive |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2532893.stm |access-date=4 June 2008 |archive-date=5 March 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305101900/http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2532893.stm |url-status=live }}</ref> In late October 2018, police searched the house.<ref>{{Cite news |date=30 October 2018 |title=Suzy Lamplugh: Police search Sutton Coldfield house |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46027522 |access-date=30 October 2018 |archive-date=30 October 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181030035120/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-46027522 |url-status=live }}</ref> They dismantled the garage and began removing its concrete floor whilst also searching the back garden.<ref>{{Cite web |date=5 November 2018 |title=Suzy Lamplugh: Search in Sutton Coldfield enters second week |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-46090929 |access-date=8 November 2018 |website=BBC News |archive-date=7 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181107150400/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-birmingham-46090929 |url-status=live }}</ref> On 12 November 2018, police announced that the search had yielded no evidence.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Weaver |first=Matthew |date=12 November 2018 |title=Met finds no evidence in Suzy Lamplugh case after digging up garden |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/12/met-finds-no-evidence-in-suzy-lamplugh-case-after-digging-up-sutton-coldfield-garden |access-date=13 November 2018 |archive-date=12 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181112175328/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/nov/12/met-finds-no-evidence-in-suzy-lamplugh-case-after-digging-up-sutton-coldfield-garden |url-status=live }}</ref>

In July 2019, a police search of land in [[Pershore]], with the assistance of archaeologists, produced no relevant evidence.<ref>{{Cite news |date=17 July 2019 |title=Suzy Lamplugh disappearance: 'No evidence' following Pershore search |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49022053 |access-date=9 November 2020 |archive-date=8 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108002714/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-49022053 |url-status=live }}</ref> In August 2019, the Specialist Investigation Team was informed of the sighting of a man resembling Cannan dumping a suitcase in the [[Grand Union Canal]] on the day of Lamplugh's disappearance. However, this section of the canal was previously searched in September 2014 for an unrelated inquiry.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2021-03-21 |title=Investigation into disappearance and murder of Suzy Lamplugh continues – Metropolitan Police |url=https://news.met.police.uk/news/investigation-into-disappearance-and-murder-of-suzy-lamplugh-continues-423207 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210321194550/https://news.met.police.uk/news/investigation-into-disappearance-and-murder-of-suzy-lamplugh-continues-423207 |archive-date=2021-03-21}}</ref> The canal sighting was covered in the documentaries ''The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh''<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 December 2020 |title=The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh |url=https://www.channel5.com/show/the-vanishing-of-suzy-lamplugh/ |website=[[Channel 5 (British TV channel)|Channel 5]] |access-date=15 June 2021 |archive-date=15 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615021545/https://www.channel5.com/show/the-vanishing-of-suzy-lamplugh/ |url-status=live }}</ref> and ''In the Footsteps of Killers''.<ref>{{Cite web |date=16 June 2021 |title=In the Footsteps of Killers |url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers |website=Channel 4 |language=en |access-date=15 June 2021 |archive-date=15 June 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210615021521/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Current status==
Cannan remained the prime (and only) suspect in the case,<ref name="Guardian2018">{{Cite news |last=Parveen |first=Nazia |date=31 October 2018 |title=Suzy Lamplugh: Police dig up patio of house linked to suspect |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/31/suzy-lamplugh-police-continue-search-suspects-former-home |access-date=26 August 2021 |archive-date=26 August 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210826150854/https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/oct/31/suzy-lamplugh-police-continue-search-suspects-former-home |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="InTheFootsteps" /> and he falsely claimed that the Metropolitan Police had eliminated him as a suspect.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007|p=79}} He protested his innocence not only of involvement in Lamplugh's disappearance but of nearly all other crimes for which he had been convicted, including those that were proven with DNA links and [[fingerprint]] evidence. This included the rape of the woman in Reading for which forensic evidence showed the chances of the perpetrator being anyone other than Cannan were 260 million to one.{{sfn|Berry-Dee|Odell|2007}}<ref name="260million">{{Cite news |date=13 July 1993 |title=Killers tell all for fame or parole: Michael Sams's post-trial confession was to show he was 'not brutal', but motives of others vary, Terry Kirby reports |work=The Independent |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/killers-tell-all-for-fame-or-parole-michael-sams-s-posttrial-confession-was-to-show-he-was-not-brutal-but-motives-of-others-vary-terry-kirby-reports-1484766.html |access-date=15 July 2022 |archive-date=15 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220715182917/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/killers-tell-all-for-fame-or-parole-michael-sams-s-posttrial-confession-was-to-show-he-was-not-brutal-but-motives-of-others-vary-terry-kirby-reports-1484766.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

While in prison, Cannan told a solicitor that he might well "reveal all" about Lamplugh when his mother died.<ref name="CTSB" />

However, in 2020, his brother revealed that his sister had already unsuccessfully begged him to reveal the location of Lamplugh's body, and the brother had insisted that he will "take his secrets to the grave" because he "doesn't have a modicum of regret, conscience or compassion" and is "a power freak".<ref name="TheVanishing" /> [[Criminologist]] Christopher Berry-Dee, who exchanged hundreds of letters with Cannan while writing a book on him, has also said that Cannan will not reveal where he deposited the body, as Cannan is a "control freak".<ref>{{Cite news |last=Lockley |first=Mike |date=18 November 2018 |title=CANNAN IS TOYING WITH POLICE. HE'S A CONTROL FREAK. HE'S LAPPING IT UP |page=4 |work=Sunday Mercury}}</ref> Fellow criminologist [[David Wilson (criminologist)|David Wilson]] has agreed and said that Cannan will not confess because he is a [[psychopath]].<ref>{{Cite news |last=Wilson |first=David |date=5 July 2022 |title=David Wilson: Suspect for murder of Suzy Lamplugh delights in final act of evil |work=The Herald |url=https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/20254350.david-wilson-suspect-murder-suzy-lamplugh-delights-final-act-evil/ |access-date=17 July 2022 |archive-date=17 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220717122428/https://www.heraldscotland.com/politics/20254350.david-wilson-suspect-murder-suzy-lamplugh-delights-final-act-evil/ |url-status=live }}</ref> 

Cannan was eligible for parole in 2022.  His first parole hearing was scheduled for March 2023, but was postponed until October of that year.  His parole bid was denied and he remained in prison.<ref>{{cite news |title=Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect to stay behind bars after parole board finds release would be unsafe |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/john-cannan-suzy-lamplugh-parole-bid-b2426655.html |access-date=17 October 2024 |agency=The Independent |archive-date=1 October 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241001091636/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/john-cannan-suzy-lamplugh-parole-bid-b2426655.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Cannan died in [[HM Prison Full Sutton]] on 6 November 2024.<ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9jxpj2lypo |title=Suzy Lamplugh murder suspect dies in prison, BBC News, 6 November 2024 |date=6 November 2024 |access-date=6 November 2024 |archive-date=7 November 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241107082143/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cy9jxpj2lypo |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Suzy Lamplugh Trust==
[[File:National Personal Safety Awards.jpg|thumb|The National Safety Awards are held by the Suzy Lamplugh Trust annually.]]
The Suzy Lamplugh Trust<ref>{{EW charity|802567|The Suzy Lamplugh Trust}}</ref> is a charitable foundation established in December 1986 by Lamplugh's parents, Paul and [[Diana Lamplugh]].<ref>{{Cite news |date=2016-07-28 |title=Suzy Lamplugh: Father 'little hope left' after 30-year search |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36903621 |access-date=2020-11-09 |archive-date=10 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201110052314/https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36903621 |url-status=live }}</ref> The mission of the trust is to raise awareness of personal safety through training and various projects, to help people avoid aggression and to offer counselling and support to relatives and friends of missing people. The trust runs the UK's National Stalking Helpline.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Suzy Lamplugh Trust – National Personal Safety Day 2018 – Stay Safe At Work |url=https://www.suzylamplugh.org/national-personal-safety-day-2018-stay-safe-at-work |access-date=9 November 2018 |website=Suzy Lamplugh Trust |date=8 November 2018 |archive-date=9 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109154909/https://www.suzylamplugh.org/national-personal-safety-day-2018-stay-safe-at-work |url-status=live }}</ref>

Paul and Diana Lamplugh were appointed to [[Order of the British Empire|OBE]] in 1992 and 2005, respectively, for their charitable work with the Suzy Lamplugh Trust.<ref name="DianaNews">{{Cite news |date=18 August 2011 |title=Suzy Lamplugh's mother Diana dies after having stroke |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14580772 |access-date=29 January 2015 |archive-date=30 November 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20171130212140/http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-14580772 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="PaulNews">{{Cite news |last=Blewett |first=Sam |date=12 June 2018 |title=Suzy Lamplugh: Murdered estate agent's father dies |work=[[The Independent]] |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/suzy-lamplugh-father-paul-dies-murdered-estate-agent-parkinsons-trust-a8395821.html |access-date=9 November 2018 |archive-date=9 November 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181109160118/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/suzy-lamplugh-father-paul-dies-murdered-estate-agent-parkinsons-trust-a8395821.html |url-status=live }}</ref> Diana Lamplugh died in August 2011 at the age of 75,<ref name="DianaNews" /><ref>{{Cite news |last=Pilkington |first=Sue |date=18 August 2011 |title=Diana Lamplugh obituary |work=[[The Guardian]] |location=London |url=https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/18/diana-lamplugh-obituary |access-date=17 December 2016 |archive-date=27 September 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160927185728/https://www.theguardian.com/uk/2011/aug/18/diana-lamplugh-obituary |url-status=live }}</ref> and Paul Lamplugh died at the age of 87 in June 2018.<ref name="PaulNews" /> Rachel Griffin, CEO of the trust since 2012, died of cancer in August 2019.<ref>{{Cite web |date=30 September 2019 |title=Rachel Griffin obituary |url=https://www.thetimes.com/uk/article/rachel-griffin-obituary-gxz23wjg2 |access-date=30 September 2019 |website=[[The Times]] |archive-date=30 September 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190930065758/https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/rachel-griffin-obituary-gxz23wjg2 |url-status=live }}</ref>

==Commemorative window==
Lamplugh and her family were members of the congregation at [[All Saints Church, East Sheen]], in the [[London Borough of Richmond upon Thames]]. She is commemorated there in a [[stained glass window|stained-glass window]] that was installed in 1996.<ref name="About">{{Cite web |title=About All Saints |url=http://www.allsaintschurch.org.uk/hire-space |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150317235514/http://www.allsaintschurch.org.uk/hire-space |archive-date=17 March 2015 |access-date=30 December 2014 |website=allsaintschurch.org.uk}}</ref>

==Television documentaries==
Lamplugh's disappearance has been the subject of a number of documentaries:
*On 16 August 1989, a ''[[Crimewatch File]]'' documentary on John Cannan's conviction for the murder of Shirley Banks was aired. It also noted the suggestions of a possible link between Cannan and the Lamplugh murder.<ref name="Crimewatch1989" /> Cannan tried unsuccessfully to prevent the programme's broadcast.<ref>{{Cite news |date=27 July 1989 |title=Killer fails to halt programme |work=Glasgow Herald |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kBI1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=w6ULAAAAIBAJ&pg=1518,2874830 |access-date=11 July 2022 |archive-date=11 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711181448/https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=kBI1AAAAIBAJ&sjid=w6ULAAAAIBAJ&pg=1518,2874830 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*On 12 September 2001, a ''[[Real Crime]]'' documentary was aired on [[ITV (TV Network)|ITV]] that examined the Lamplugh case. It was concluded that Cannan was likely responsible for her murder.<ref name="Real Crime" />
*In 2002, a documentary titled ''The Man Who Killed Suzy Lamplugh?'' was aired on [[Channel 5 (UK)|Channel 5]]. It concluded that Cannan was likely responsible for her murder.<ref name="TheMan?" />
*In 2015, a ''[[Crimes That Shook Britain]]'' documentary aired that focused on the Lamplugh case. It concluded that Cannan was likely responsible for her murder.<ref name="CTSB" />
*In December 2020, a documentary titled ''The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh'' aired on Channel 5. It concluded that Cannan was likely responsible for her murder.<ref name="TheVanishing">{{Cite web |title=The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh |url=https://www.channel5.com/show/the-vanishing-of-suzy-lamplugh |access-date=11 July 2022 |website=My5 |publisher=Channel 5 |archive-date=11 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220711181448/https://www.channel5.com/show/the-vanishing-of-suzy-lamplugh |url-status=live }}</ref>
*On 9 March 2021, a two-part [[Sky UK|Sky TV]] documentary titled ''The Suzy Lamplugh Mystery''/''The Mystery of Suzy Lamplugh'' was aired. It concluded that Cannan was likely responsible for her murder.<ref name="Guardian2021">{{Cite news |date=9 March 2021 |title=The woman who disappeared: Why is Britain still obsessed with Suzy Lamplugh? |work=The Guardian |url=https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/09/woman-disappeared-britain-obsessed-suzy-lamplugh-sky-estate-agent |access-date=21 July 2022 |archive-date=22 June 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220622180521/https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2021/mar/09/woman-disappeared-britain-obsessed-suzy-lamplugh-sky-estate-agent |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name="Now">{{Cite web |title=Watch The Suzy Lamplugh Mystery |url=https://www.nowtv.com/watch/the-suzy-lamplugh-mystery/iYEQYZaTURDhwVNHZP9q3u |access-date=21 July 2022 |website=Now TV |publisher=Sky TV |archive-date=24 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220524024438/https://www.nowtv.com/watch/the-suzy-lamplugh-mystery/iYEQYZaTURDhwVNHZP9q3u |url-status=live }}</ref> 
*On 16 June 2021, an episode of [[Channel 4 (UK)|Channel 4]] and [[criminologist]] [[David Wilson (criminologist)|David Wilson's]] documentary series ''In the Footsteps of Killers'' aired, focusing on Lamplugh's case. It concluded that Cannan was likely responsible for her murder.<ref name="InTheFootsteps">{{Cite web |last=David Wilson |author-link=David Wilson (criminologist) |title=In the Footsteps of Killers: Episode 2 |url=https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers/on-demand/71234-002 |access-date=11 July 2022 |website=All4 |publisher=Channel 4 |archive-date=13 July 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220713192939/https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers/on-demand/71234-002 |url-status=live }}</ref>
*On 2 October 2021, an episode of Faking It: Tears of a Crime called The Prime Suspect goes into details of the mistakes made by John Cannan to be considered a suspect in Lamplugh's disappearance

==See also==
{{Portal|Crime|London}}
*[[List of people who disappeared mysteriously: 1910–1990|List of people who disappeared]]
*[[Murder of Lindsay Buziak]] – the 2008 murder of a real estate agent in Canada after she met clients about whom she had expressed concerns
*[[Murder of Helen McCourt]] – high-profile UK case in which the murderer refused to disclose the location of the victim's body before he died in 2022, led to the introduction of [[Helen's Law]]
*[[Murder of Lindsay Rimer]] – unsolved 1994 case of a British girl who disappeared in [[Yorkshire]] and whose body was found a year later in a nearby canal
*[[Murder of Carolanne Jackson]] – an unsolved 1987 UK murder that is believed to have involved stalking
*{{Annotated link|Murder of Yanfei Bao}}

== Notes==
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==References==
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== Further reading ==
*{{Cite book |last1=Berry-Dee |first1=Christopher |title=Prime Suspect: The True Story of John Cannan, the Only Man Police Want to Investigate for the Murder of Suzy Lamplugh |last2=Odell |first2=Robin |publisher=John Blake |year=2007 |isbn=978-1-84454-420-2 |location=London}}
*{{Cite book |last=Howard |first=Vanessa |url=https://archive.org/details/britainstenmostw0000howa/page/n11/mode/2up |title=Britain's Ten Most Wanted: The Truth Behind the Most Shocking Unsolved Murders |date=2009 |publisher=John Blake |isbn=978-1-84454-759-3 |location=London |pages=115–146 |chapter=Chapter Five: Suzy Lamplugh, 'Life is for Living' |format=Online copy |access-date=4 January 2022}}
*{{Cite book |last=Videcette |first=David |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=5WPEzgEACAAJ |title=Finding Suzy: The Hunt for Missing Estate Agent Suzy Lamplugh and 'Mr Kipper' |date=2021 |publisher=DNA books/ Videcette Limited |isbn=978-0-9934263-6-0 |language=en}}<ref>{{cite news |last1=Evans |first1=Martin |title='Not a shred of evidence' against Suzy Lamplugh prime suspect |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/31/not-shred-evidence-against-suzy-lamplugh-prime-suspect/ |work=The Telegraph |date=31 July 2021 |access-date=19 March 2023 |archive-date=19 March 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230319054208/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/07/31/not-shred-evidence-against-suzy-lamplugh-prime-suspect/ |url-status=live}}</ref>

==External links==
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0He7hgcZBXI&t=1058 October 1986 ''Crimewatch'' reconstruction and appeal]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-U3mmHpaS6U&t=1s Cannan's 1987 dating video, released by police]
*[http://www.suzylamplugh.org/ The Suzy Lamplugh Trust] An organisation created by Suzy's mother, Diana Lamplugh, to promote personal safety.
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/551283.stm ''The search for Suzy''] from the BBC.
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/july/30/newsid_2492000/2492647.stm ''BBC On this Day''] BBC page on 30 July 1986, the day the appeal was made by Lamplugh's parents for her safe return.
*[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/800212.stm ''Witness describes 'Lamplugh kidnap'''] from the BBC.
*[http://casefilepodcast.com/case-48-suzy-lamplugh/ Casefile True Crime Podcast – Case 48: Suzy Lamplugh] – 4 March 2017
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sPGljgtJQjU&t=1s 1989 ''Crimewatch File'' documentary on Cannan]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mnR-tT-0l8 2001 ''Real Crime'' documentary on the Lamplugh case]
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cnz6VAIDUzA&t=0s 2002 documentary on the Lamplugh case titled ''The Man Who Killed Suzy Lamplugh?'']
*[https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x834f5m 2015 ''Crimes That Shook Britain'' documentary on the case]
*[https://www.channel5.com/show/the-vanishing-of-suzy-lamplugh 2020 documentary on the Lamplugh case titled ''The Vanishing of Suzy Lamplugh'']
*[https://www.channel4.com/programmes/in-the-footsteps-of-killers/on-demand/71234-002 2021 ''In the Footsteps of Killers'' documentary on the Lamplugh case]

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