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Saturday Night Strangler unmasked 30 years after crimes thanks to victims' knickers
serial killer' - least of all 16-year-old factory worker friends Geraldine Hughes and Pauline Floyd.They'd left a nightclub in Swansea, South Wales to hitch a lift home but would never reach their destination.Instead, they were found the next morning raped and strangled in nearby woodland, sparking a massive police manhunt and leaving a community cowering in fear as to when or where the killer might strike again.Around 150 detectives worked flat out on the case but, with no mobile phones, internet or computers, the investigation soon became swamped in a sea of paperwork. And Britain back then - floundering in a state of emergency, crippled by an energy crisis and restricted to a three-day working week - was hardly rich with the kind of resources required to enable such back-breaking, round-the-clock enquiries.Consequently, come mid-1974, the murder team was quietly wound down and boxes upon boxes of evidence and admin shelved in station storerooms where they were either ruined by damp or nibbled by mice.
