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🗓️ 15 July 2025
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Ryland Headley was 34-years-old when he raped and murdered 75-year-old Louisa Dunne in her home in Bristol (UK) on June 28, 1967. The biggest lead investigators had was to be found ‘lifted’ from the dusted powder of a window frame at the back of Louisa Dunne’s house and the residual trace of a palm print. It triggered the biggest finger and palm print operation in the history of the force. No suspect was found and the case went cold. Joseph Scott Morgan and Dave Mack discuss the rape/murder of 75-year-old Louisa Dunne, the evidence left behind, as well as similar attacks 10 years later and 212 miles away credited to the 'Ipswich Rapist', Ryland Headley. Joseph Scott Morgan explains how investigators careful collection of evidence in 1967 was used to convict 92-year-old Ryland Headley 58 years after the crime.
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00:00.43 Introduction - 1967 Cold Case
05:23.79 1967 unsolved murder - SOLVED 2025
09:43.05 Neighbor checks on Louisa Dune, 75
14:43.95 The icy fingers of death
19:24.99 Neighbor calls police after finding body
24:11.77 Scarf used to strangle victim
29:09.05 The Ipswich Rapist - 1977
34:15.57 Ipswich victims were 79 and 84
35:11.95 Ryland Headley sentenced to life, sentenced overturned, released in 1980
40:06.98 Evidence lost
44:12.49 Partial Palm Print from 1967
47:03.59 DNA from 1967 matched to Ryland Headley
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| 0:00.0 | This is an I-Heart podcast. |
| 0:05.5 | Body Facts with Joseph Scott Moore. |
| 0:10.0 | You know, I run my mouth a lot about science and about being a scientist and how I rely on those methods that have been developed over the years through study and practice. |
| 0:33.5 | And I'll stick with that. |
| 0:35.1 | I'm not going to deviate from that at all. |
| 0:37.0 | But, you know, there's this one theme that runs through medical legal death investigation. And it's the idea of documenting everything that we see. I tell my students at Jackson State University without fail every year. |
| 0:57.0 | I teach a medical legal death investigation class for undergraduates twice a year. |
| 1:02.0 | And I tell them, I say, look, you are in fact going to be the documentarian of things that are happening in the world in which you find yourself in, |
| 1:13.4 | the world of death. |
| 1:16.1 | But it's important to understand that you're also a historian. |
| 1:21.5 | Because you're documenting the lives of individuals that otherwise may not have even been a blip on the radar screen of life. |
| 1:30.6 | Today is one such case, a case that reaches back all the way to 1967 in Great Britain. |
| 1:42.5 | It's about a little old lady that was found dead on her living room floor, or as the Brits |
| 1:50.3 | like to say, the room of her parlor. |
| 1:54.5 | And she had undergone brutality that is almost unimaginable. |
| 2:02.3 | I'm Joseph Scott Morgan, and this is Bodybags. |
| 2:10.4 | Dave always have an affinity for British names, |
| 2:16.2 | town names in particular, things like Gloucester and these different types of names of |
| 2:26.2 | cities that, you know, we have them here in America, but, you know, because of the way we form our words |
| 2:34.0 | and these sorts of things, |
| 2:35.6 | we don't, they don't necessarily come off the same when you go back to the mother tongue, |
| 2:41.6 | if you will, when you're over the great green. |
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