THE shocking murder of Carol Clark in March 1993 started a huge police investigation.
However, the case has been reopened in 2023 after going unsolved for 30 years. Here’s what we know about the developments in the case.
Carol Clark was a 32-year-old woman who was kidnapped in Bristol in March 1993.
She was found dead two days later, which prompted a widescale police investigation.
However, despite over 500 witness statements being taken, the case wasn’t solved.
Gloucestershire Police revealed on March 28, 2023, that they were reopening the investigation, 30 years to the day in which her body was found.
Carol was last seen getting into a car in Bristol on March 26, 1993.
She was found dead two days later by a dog walker in reeds and undergrowth near the Gloucester and Sharpness Canal.
It was later revealed she had been strangled and her neck had been broken.
They have kept their appeal for information active as they question the suspect.
Police announced on April 4, 2023, that a 66-year-old man had been arrested in connection with her murder.
A spokesperson for the Gloucestershire police said: “A 66-year-old man from Gloucestershire was arrested today, Tuesday 4 April, on suspicion of the murder of Carol Clark.”
DCI Wayne Usher said after the arrest: “I have received new and significant information about this case and while I cannot say more at the moment without putting inquiries at risk, it is an encouraging development and one which has all my officers more determined than ever to find Carol’s murderer.
“But I still need the public’s help. Carol lived and worked in a very close-knit community, and it’s likely that some people with information about what happened to her remained silent, perhaps through fear or misplaced loyalty.
“In the time that’s passed since, allegiances and loyalties will have changed, though, so I’m asking those people to search their consciences once again, 30 years after her death, to look at her photo, to think about the impact this continues to have on her loved ones and help bring the culprit to justice.”
