Thirty-two-year-old mother of two Jeanette Kempton, better known as simply Jean, was last seen alive leaving the Loughborough Hotel in Brixton, south London, England, on February 2nd, 1989. For two long weeks after this sighting, her whereabouts were unknown.
Then, on February 18th, two hunters came across her decomposed remains lying in a ditch on the estate of the Earl of Stradbroke near Suffolk, a location approximately 118 miles from where Jeanette had last been seen and a place she had no former connection to.
The victim had been strangled to death. Her coat, shoes, purse, and jewelry were missing, as was a funeral wreath she had bought on the day she went missing.
Authorities at one point had five persons of interest in the crime, one of which was Jeanette’s ex-husband, but none of the suspects panned out, and no convictions ever resulted. Police were further frustrated by the lack of forensic evidence at the scene, and the fact that no witnesses saw the body being dumped.
The case appeared on the Crimewatch TV show on BBC One in May of 1989, but no further leads were forthcoming. The mysterious murder of Jeanette Kempton remains unsolved.
Crime Immemorial 