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Headless Corpse Linked to Unsolved Lover's Lane Double Murder 35 Years Ago
On 21 December 1989, Terry Gooderham and Maxine Arnold were kidnapped from her home in Walthamstow, north east London, and forced to drive to a lover's lane carpark in Epping Forest.
There, two gunman in the back seat of Gooderham’s Mercedes blasted the couple with a sawn off shotgun before disappearing in a getaway car driven by a third man.
The suspected killers, their accomplice and the motive are all known to the Metropolitan police but the crime remains unsolved on this 35th anniversary.
Now another mystery murder has been linked to the same east London organised crime group believed to be behind the lover’s lane execution.
In October 1991, the headless torso of a man with both his arms cut off was dumped in Bolney, Sussex.
Local detectives tried their best to crack the case. The Met was asked for help, believing the culprits were likely to be London villains. No help came, but not because the Met didn’t know anything.
It knew a lot from running a highly secret bugging operation in Canning Town, east London, where the organised crime group is said to have discussed chopping up a body with tattoos on the arms to avoid identification.
A Met detective who retired and became a private investigator says the force has put its own reputation before solving these three gruesome murders.
“What would justify that?” The Upsetter asked.
“Police corruption”, he replied.
