She went so far as to create a 179-page report of evidence and opinions she gathered herself. She also consulted US cold case experts.
Senior British coroner officer Stephanie Davies has been suspended from her post as an investigator in the Cheshire Police Coroner’s Office after she created a 179-page report which claimed significant similarities between the deaths of five elderly couples from 1996 to 2011. It also claimed a plethora of errors in the initial investigations.
Each case had been ruled a murder-suicide with the husband killing his wife then himself.
Davies, however, believed at least two of the five cases showed enough similarities in modus operandi and signature to be the work of the same killer. After talking to an un-named cold case expert in the USA, she believed these were not murder-suicides at all but two double murders.
She then identified three other cases that she thought looked suspicious and fit the pattern she thought she was seeing. According to Davies, 'This individual will not stop killing until someone or something stops him.'
She gave a copy of her report to the Cheshire Police last June but they instead opened an investigation into her. This ultimately pivoted to investigating the cases she lampooned police effectiveness in. Of course, this investigation found no errors with the previous investigation.
All this means Davies is suspended from her investigative duties. The Crown is also reportedly considering charges against her for sharing investigative information with people outside the Cheshire Police.
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