Isabella Skelton murder probe: BBC and police issue fresh appeal over mystery disappearance
manchestereveningnews.co.ukPolice have made a fresh appeal for information into a killing believed to have been committed 55 years ago. As reported in the Manchester Evening News in December, the disappearance of Isabella Skelton, on June 5, 1969, from Crumpsall, is now being investigated as a murder inquiry.
One man has been interviewed under caution on suspicion of her murder but no one has been charged. In 2019, after years of searching, Isabella's daughter, Lynda Chapman, went to Bury police station to report her mother officially missing.
Incredibly, between 1969 and 2019 there had been no investigation into Isabella's disappearance. GMP would go on to conduct a 12-week forensic search of a property in the Crumpsall area.
They dug down to the foundations and excavated the cellar and the backyard after reports it had been concreted over after Isabella disappeared.
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