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Confidential report names prime suspect of a potential serial killer case who may have attacked elderly couples since 1990s
Sunday Times, similarities between five murder suicides in the North West mean they could have been the work of the same killer.It examines the deaths of Howard and Bea Ainsworth in 1996 and Donald and Auriel Ward in 1999, which took place two miles apart in Wilmslow.It also calls for a review of three more cases in the North West, including the deaths of Michael and Violet Higgins at their home in Didsbury in 2000, and Kenneth Martin, 77, and his wife Eileen, 76, at their home in Davyhulme, Trafford, in 2008.In each case the man is suspected of killing the woman before taking their own life.The 179-page report, written by the senior coroner’s officer for Cheshire, identifies a male suspect, the ST reports.
