[8] In 2017, analysis of dental records led police to believe that Fred the Head could have been John Henry Jones from Trevor, near Wrexham in North Wales, who had gone missing in 1970.
[22] In 1980, a prisoner became a suspect in Confait's murder when an incriminating conversation between him and a fellow inmate was overheard, but because he and the person he claimed to have been with at the time of the offence each maintained that it was the other who committed it, neither of them could be charged with it.
Weedon had been taking a shortcut home through an alleyway in Hounslow six months after Stratford's death when she was hit on the head with a blunt object before being thrown over a fence into the grounds of an electricity substation and raped.
[176] As of May of that year, police did not have a suspect's DNA profile, but links have been suggested between this case and the murders of Eve Stratford and Lynne Weedon.
[177] In the late 1990s, British serial contract killer John "Bruce" Childs from east London,[188] convicted of six killings in the 1970s, confessed to five more murders from his jail cell, claiming that the fifth victim was Snowden.
Childs claimed that six months earlier, he and associate Henry (Harry) "Big H" Mackenney[191][192] had called at the filling station after murdering Ronald Andrews[193] and dumping his car in the River Nene.