Forty-seven-year-old Christine McGovern lived alone with her Rottweiler on Hamilton Road, Walthamstow, London, England. She was a sex worker and operated out of her flat.
On the evening of Wednesday, June 21st, 1995, Christine was spotted outside her home with her dog at around six-thirty, but it was the last time she was seen alive. Neighbors would later report they heard her dog barking at approximately eleven p.m.
The following day at around noon, a friend came over to the house and found Christine dead in her flat. She was nude and excessively bruised, plus she had suffered a broken spine. The cause of death was strangulation.
There was no sign of forced entry into the home, but it had been ransacked, and several items of gold jewelry as well as a satellite decoder and a video camera were missing. Authorities speculated that the killer may have been a client or someone Christine knew.
In 2011, a new appeal was launched to try to solve the case, and in 2013, criminologist David Wilson released a documentary as part of his Killers Behind Bars: The Untold Story series, in which he speculated that English serial killer Anthony Hardy may have been responsible for murdering Christine McGovern.
Hardy, also known as the Camden Ripper, was convicted of three murders in 2003 but was suspected of at least a half-dozen more, including the high-profile slaying of sex worker Zoe Parker, whose torso was found in the Thames in December of 2000. David Wilson’s documentary put forth the hypothesis that Anthony Hardy had not only killed Christine McGovern but also another sex worker, Sharon Hoare, in Fulham in 1991.
The case remains open.
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