The impact of the murder of Lisa Hession is still felt in the town where she lived, almost 40 years on. As the Manchester Evening News's publisher Reach PLC launches a new true crime newsletter called Testimony this week, our chief reporter, Neal Keeling, looks back on a case which has haunted his career.
In this, the third in a series of special features, Neal tells the story of the best friend left bereft by Lisa's killing. The 1930s council estate where Lisa Hession lived with her mum, Christine, and grandmother, Ellen, was neat and well kept.
The disbelief, and shock, and fear felt by neighbours and the wider town was amplified by the killing happening less than three weeks before Christmas.
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