A piece of old floor carpet from a car, a patterned pinafore dress and an old Guinness sign from a pub. A sparse and bizarre collection of clues detectives were left with to find a killer.
On a cold January day in 2010, the Angel Meadow site just outside the city centre - no stranger to tragedy as the home of one of the largest and most notorious Industrial Revolution slums of its day in Manchester - gave up a violent secret.
The covered body of a woman. But to this day, and despite extensive police investigations both at home and aboard, the mystery of the Angel of the Meadow murder remains just that.
No one knows who she is and no one knows who brutally brought her life to an end, or why. The Manchester Evening News takes a look back at a puzzling unsolved murder police at the time vowed to solve.
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