Murder of student tied up with bra could be solved amid fears she was Peter Tobin victim

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murder case of a young woman who was killed and had her hands bound with her own bra could now be solved, as fresh evidence has reignited the investigation.

It has been revealed Jessie Earl's familial DNA sample will be cross-referenced with a notorious serial killers' 'trophies'.

The notorious Scottish serial killer Peter Tobin has been linked to the disappearance of the 22-year-old, whose skeleton was found nine years after she vanished in a remote part of the Beachy Head cliffs in East Sussex, England, in 1980.

Tobin had a hoard of unknown women's jewellery at his home, it was reported. A pre-inquest hearing was told DNA has already been taken from her parents and police forensic experts are searching databases for a match to any crime scene.Sussex Police have also been asked to do a thorough search of their archives and provide an audit trail of evidence collected before the first inquest.The Earl family legal team are hoping their DNA can be matched to a trophy taken from another victim of the same killer.Jessie was studying at Eastbourne College of Art and Design when she was last seen by her landlady in May 1980.Her mother, Valerie, now 90, told police at the time how her daughter had met a Scottish man on the downs at Beachy Head.She said: “She stated that she had talked to him and that he was a married man but separated and had four children.“She then said something like: ‘Oh I wish men would be prepared to be just friends’.