48 - Milly, Marsha and Amelie: The Bus Stop Murders

In March of 2002, Milly Dowler went missing. She was 13 years old and had been walking home after school that afternoon, down a busy road in a familiar area, near to her middle class home. Despite efforts by Surrey police to locate her there were no leads. Her body was found 20 miles away over 6 months later.

No one knew who had taken Milly, or what had happened to her. Nor was it know that hers would be the first - and most high profile - in a series of murders and violent attacks carried out by a man who hated women and young girls.

This is the story of the murders of Milly Dowler, Marsha McDonnell and Amelie Delagrange, the attempted murder of Kate Sheedy and their murderer, known as The Bus Stop Killer.

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Sources:

Gemma Dowler (with Michelle Lovric), My Sister Milly: The sotry of two stolen childhoods (London: Penguin, 2017) Purchase here 

Colin Sutton, Manhunt: How I brought seriel killer Levi Bellfield to justice (London: John Blake Publishing, 2018) Purchase here 

Goeffrey Wansell, The Bus Stop Killer (London: Penguin, 2011) 

“Levi Bellfield: Profile of 'heinous' serial killer” from BBC News https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-35541060 (10 February 2016)   

Ben Ando, “Levi Bellfield takes the stand” from BBC Newshttp://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/7190212.stm (15 January 2008) 

Neal Baker, “Victim of Evil: What happened to Amelie Delagrange, when was she murdered by Levi Bellfield and what is Manhunt about” in The Sun https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/6772036/amelie-delagrange-levi-bellfield-manhunt-itv/ (7 January 2019)   

Emily Retter, “Levi Bellfield: Monster 'could have been stopped before he killed Amelie Delagrange” in The Mirror https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/monster-levi-bellfield-could-been-13830650 (8 January 2019)   

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Wikis:   

Operation Weeting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Weeting 

Milly Dowler: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Murder_of_Milly_Dowler 

Levi Bellfield: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Levi_Bellfield