The brutal killer of a Manchester sweetshop owner was caught thanks to a startling piece of pioneering CSI. In a vicious act that saw a 58-year old shop owner slain for the pitiful sum of £6, James Smith cockily told police officers "I won't hang".
The case was dubbed the 'Jigsaw Murder', due to the breakthrough method of CSI (Crime Scene Investigation) that went into catching the killer.
On a Friday afternoon in May 1962, James Smith, a 26-year old rubber moulder from Beswick, entered a sweet and tobacconist shop in Hulme Hall Lane, Miles Platting.
No one knows if Smith spoke to Sarah Cross, the shop's owner, but whatever exchange happened between them minutes later she was dead.
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