Two months after Lin Russell and her six-year-old daughter Megan were bludgeoned to death on a summer’s afternoon in July 1996, police searching a hedgerow near the crime scene made a chilling discovery. Today we examine those clues in more detail — starting with questions about the weapon used in the crazed assault on Lin Russell and her daughters. At 7.30pm, Lin’s husband Shaun, a 45-year-old university lecturer, returned to their cottage after work and was puzzled to find nobody there. Lin and the girls should have been back from Brownies by then and by 9pm he was so worried that he called the police. Used by laboratories since 2014, this can identify criminals from DNA samples which are very small, old or otherwise degraded.

Source: Daily Mail April 01, 2026 19:55 UTC