March 25, 1993. London, England. After getting off a train at the Actin

Town Tube Station, 47-year-old Jean Bradley heads towards a parked car, but is murdered

by a man who stabs her eight times. A witness chases after the attacker for several blocks

before losing him, but manages to provide a detailed description to the police.

By months later, a suspect named Frank Marnell is charged with Jean's murder after this witness

identifies him, but since a magistrate does not feel that the evidence against Marnell is strong

enough to bring him to trial, the charges against him are dropped, and no one is ever convicted

of the crime. After that, the trail went cold.

Hello everyone and welcome to our latest episode of the trail went cold. I'm your host Robin

Warner, and this week we're going to be exploring an unsolved cold case from the United Kingdom,

the 1993 murder of Jean Bradley. So this coming weekend, I'm going to be appearing on

podcast row at CrimeCon UK and London, and per tradition in the week preceding these podcasting

events I always like to cover a case from the host city. Now if I was to put together a list of

crimes from this podcast which appeared to be unlikely candidates to remain unsolved, the murder

of Jean Bradley would be right near the top of the list. Jean was a business woman who was

stabbed to death by an unidentified man while approaching her parked car in the act in suburb of

West London, and what makes this crime stand out is that an eyewitness took the initiative to chase

down the killer for over a mile before losing him. Months later, a suspect named Frank Marnell was

charged with Jean's murder, and given that this witness positively identified him as the killer,

you would think the case would be pretty cut and dried, right? Well the problem is that eyewitness

testimony can often be unreliable, and since there were a number of other issues with the Crown

Prosecution Services case against Marnell, the charges against him would be dropped. While Marnell

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