Babes in the Wood murders (Epping Forest)

The Babes in the Wood murders is a name which has been used in the media to refer to a child murder case in which two bodies were found concealed in woodland.

The bodies of Susan Blatchford (aged 11), and Gary Hanlon (aged 12), were discovered in a thicket of trees on Lippitts Hill, Epping Forest, south-east England, after they went missing from their homes in Enfield, north London, in March 1970. Thirty years later, Ronald Jebson, already serving a life sentence for the 1974 murder of eight-year-old Rosemary Papper, confessed to their sexual assault and murder.^[1] Jebson died in secrecy at University Hospital North Durham on April 17, 2015, reportedly from kidney failure. Accounts of his death began to circulate in the UK media on April 27, 2015.^[2]

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