Lost in an industry that condemned her to a violent end, was Linda victim of the East Lancs Ripper?

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This is Linda Donaldson, raised by her grandmother, married at 18. Then, when the relationship fell apart in the midst of a crushing heroin addiction, fell into prostitution.

She worked the streets of Toxteth, Liverpool, lost in a vice industry that condemned her to a violent end. By 31, she would be dead - killed with a savagery that sickened senior detectives.

The person who killed Linda – a vulnerable woman whose day-to-day existence slipped under the radar – has never been caught.

But it is feared she may be the victim of one of Britain’s few serial killers: a serial killer never unmasked, but christened by some as “The East Lancs Rippe". READ MORE: 25 unsolved Greater Manchester murders that have baffled detectives for decades, and where they took place It is believed he prowled the patchwork of communities that straddled the Greater Manchester-Merseyside border.