Robert Napper: The Green Chain Killer Who Murdered Rachel Nickell
On a quiet summer morning in July 1992, 23-year-old Rachel Nickell was walking with her two-year-old son on Wimbledon Common when she was stabbed 49 times and sexually assaulted in broad daylight. Her toddler was left clinging to her body, pleading for her to wake up.
The man responsible was Robert Napper, already known to police as the Green Chain Rapist after a string of violent sexual attacks on women across south-east London. His own mother had warned detectives he was a danger. Officers had his name. They even interviewed him. Yet he remained free—long enough to kill again, this time…
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