Cheshire police examine serial killer theory in five couples’ deaths

Five apparent murder-suicides in north-west may have been murders, coroner’s officer says

Police in the north-west of England are reviewing claims that a serial killer may have been behind five apparent murder-suicides of elderly couples over the past 24 years.

Stephanie Davies, Cheshire police’s senior coroner’s officer, has produced a 197-page report raising concerns that the deaths of Harold and Bea Ainsworth in April 1996 and Donald and Auriel Ward in November 1999, all in the wealthy town of Wilmslow, were double murders by a third party who is still at large, the Sunday Times reported.

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