Helen McCourt was a young woman who went missing in 1988.
A man was convicted of her murder in 1989 after blood, which was identified as Helen's using DNA, was found in his car. Her case is the first in English history where a person has been convicted of murder without a body using DNA evidence.
Case[]
Two days prior to her disappearance, she had been banned from her local pub, the George and Dragon.
On February 9 at 5:15 PM, she got off the bus to walk 500 yards to her home, which took her past the pub. A man got off another bus at the same time and place, and later reported hearing a loud scream cut short from the pub.
Blood evidence was later found linked to Helen.
Sources[]
- Helen McCourt on Wikipedia
- Helen McCourt at the Doe Network