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- The Cannock Chase murders (also known as the A34 murders and the Babes in the Ditch murders) were the murders of three girls aged between 5 and 7 that occurred in Staffordshire, England, between 1965 and 1967. The bodies of all three children were discovered on Cannock Chase; a vast area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire. The perpetrator of all three murders, Raymond Leslie Morris, was arrested in 1968 for the attempted abduction of an intended fourth victim. He was convicted in February 1969 of the 1967 murder of seven-year-old Christine Ann Darby at Stafford Assizes. Morris is also believed to be responsible for the abduction, sexual assault, and attempted murder of a fifth girl in 1964. Although never charged with the murders of the first two victims discovered on Cannock Chase, following Morris's conviction, a police spokesman informed the media all investigators involved in his apprehension remained convinced that all three children had been murdered by Morris. The manhunt to identify and apprehend Morris is reported to be one of the largest initiated to apprehend a child killer in British history. He died of natural causes at HMP Preston on 11 March 2014. (en)
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- The A34 Killer (en)
- The Monster of Cannock Chase (en)
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- The A34 Killer (en)
- The Monster of Cannock Chase (en)
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- Walsall, Staffordshire, England (en)
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- Raymond Leslie Morris (en)
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- HM Prison Preston, Lancashire, England (en)
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- Raymond Leslie Morris (en)
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- "We are convinced that the man who murdered Christine Darby is the man in the Identikit picture and that it is a good likeness. His is a face well-known to someone—probably to several people. He is being shielded, either by a relative who knows of his guilt but is prevented from coming forward by misguided loyalty or fear, or by people who recognise a resemblance in an acquaintance but cannot bring themselves to believe that the person could be a child killer ... the innocent—and many innocent men may resemble the picture—have nothing to fear, but no child is safe while the man guilty of the murder of Christine Darby walks free." (en)
- "Mr Forbes, I am addressing you, but in addressing you, I am really addressing you and the many colleagues who have helped bring this dreadful case to its conclusion. There must be many mothers in and around Walsall and the area whose hearts will beat more lightly as a result of this verdict ... it must have been a nightmare for mothers and fathers in Walsall over the last months when [they heard of] a child missing." (en)
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- The Cannock Chase murders (also known as the A34 murders and the Babes in the Ditch murders) were the murders of three girls aged between 5 and 7 that occurred in Staffordshire, England, between 1965 and 1967. The bodies of all three children were discovered on Cannock Chase; a vast area of countryside in the county of Staffordshire. The manhunt to identify and apprehend Morris is reported to be one of the largest initiated to apprehend a child killer in British history. He died of natural causes at HMP Preston on 11 March 2014. (en)
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- Cannock Chase murders (en)
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