Channel 4’s 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder has been exploring the brutal killing of 86-year-old retired postmistress in Cambridgeshire
Viewers of 24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder have been left devastated by a recent investigation.
The two-part Channel 4 documentary examined an unsolved case surrounding the death of an 86-year-old woman.
Retired postmistress Una Crown was killed in 2013, with a neighbour discovering her body at her Cambridgeshire bungalow.
The widow had been found with stab wounds to her neck and chest, and her clothing had been set on fire in an attempt to destroy evidence and conceal the full severity of her injuries.
The distressing case is being examined in 24 Hours in Police Custody, after the investigation was reopened with DNA evidence and new forensic techniques uncovering male DNA beneath her fingernails, reports the Mirror.
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The Channel 4 synopsis teases: “The unsolved case of the brutal murder of 86-year-old Una Crown in 2013 is re-opened.
“Police think they know the identity of the killer but will the science back them up?”
It continues: “Forensics get a partial DNA match to a previous suspect, and the police decide to arrest him. But after 13 years of denial will he finally confess?”
Viewers were moved to tears by the two-part documentary, with one sharing on Reddit: “I watched part 1 last week and then just finished part 2 on my lunch break at work, which I severely regret as it made me ball my eyes out at the end. This is up there as one of the worst for me. That poor woman and her family.”
They later responded to another user’s comment: “Absolutely outrageous they tried to say it was accidental given the state she was found in. Horrific.”
One user remarked: “I’ll be honest, a lot of episodes of that show have reduced me to tears,” while another wrote: “I agree, it was just so awful.”
A further commenter added: “yes, it was and is an awful travesty of justice.”
Another wrote: “That episode will haunt me. The idea that she was just watching TV with her cosy blanket when she heard him enter the house with a key.. Which he had kept since he helped with her broken lock. And that he went to the house drunk and it was sexually motivated. Then he thought he’d got away with it for a decade, still living in the same neighborhood. Terrifying.”
One more user stated: “I am in shock how much they screwed it up. that poor lady and her family, heartbreaking.”
24 Hours in Police Custody: The Cold Case Murder is available to watch on Channel 4.
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