For Julie MacKay, catching Christopher Hampton after he had evaded justice for 30 years was the case that came to define her career as a police detective.
Today she believes that Hampton, who was jailed for 22 years for the murder of Melanie Road, 17, is a serial killer responsible for the murder — in very similar circumstances and in the same area of southwest England — of three other women.
Two days after Road’s murder on June 9, 1984, Shelley Morgan, 33, was found dead in Backwell Hill, just outside Bristol.
Less than a year later, Linda Guest, 35, was killed in April 1985 and found in Frampton Cotterell, north of Bristol. In March 1987, Helen Fleet, 66, was found dead near Weston-super-Mare, the
