During a review of the case, investigators found a description of a possible suspect that had not been disclosed to the public, according to San Jose police Sgt. Jorge Garibay. The person was described as a white man, 32 to 35 years old and 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall, Garibay said. He also had a thin build and strawberry blond hair.
During a review of the case, investigators found a description of a possible suspect that had not been disclosed to the public. The person was described as a white man, 32 to 35 years old and 5 feet 7 inches to 5 feet 8 inches tall. He also had a thin build and strawberry blond hair. The review also identified a separate 2005 anonymous tip that indicated the person likely lived in the area at the time of the murder.
Ms Hewer, 52, a devout Christian, was sexually assaulted and stabbed six times at her flat in Parkstone Road, Walthamstow, on October 17, 1995. There was no sign of a break-in to the sixth-floor property, suggesting she knew her attacker. Firefighters broke into the premises and found her body in a bedroom after two blazes were deliberately started in that room and another in the lounge.
The recent death of Robert Redford brought renewed interest to an unresolved search for a murder suspect the one accused of killing the boyfriend of the acclaimed actor's daughter in Colorado decades earlier. As local outlets recounted in the aftermath of Redford's death, his daughter Shauna was attending the University of Colorado Boulder when her boyfriend and fellow student, Sid Wells, was fatally shot in his apartment.