Murder of Lindsay Rimer

Lindsay Jo Rimer (born 17 February 1981) lived with her parents, two sisters, and brother in the family home on Cambridge Street in Hebden Bridge.On her way to the shop, she briefly visited a local pub, the Trades Club in Holme Street, where her mother was having a drink with a friend.[5][11][12][13][4] She was found fully dressed in the clothes that she was wearing when she had disappeared, and in her pocket was still the exact change from the cornflakes she bought that night.[15] The post mortem was conducted later that day at Royal Halifax Infirmary by Home Office pathologist Mike Green, who concluded that Rimer had most likely been strangled to death.[16][17] Detectives believed that Rimer was killed on the night of her disappearance and her body placed in the canal hours before she was reported missing on the morning of 8 November.[3] An offender profile was drawn up by a psychiatrist, and this concluded that the killer would likely be someone who could drive, probably aged 17 to their early 20s, and potentially someone Rimer would be attracted to.[3] Lead investigator Tony Whittle suggested that the killer may not have intended to murder Lindsay, saying: "Possibly someone she knew very well offered her a lift.[14] After Rimer's disappearance, police had discovered that a red Honda Civic that had been stolen in Meanwood, near Leeds, the previous night had been spotted several times in Hebden Bridge near where she had last been seen.[18][19] However, several weeks into the investigation the vehicle and driver were traced and the man was found to have a confirmed alibi, since he was being spoken to by a police officer some miles away at the time of Rimer's disappearance.[3] Two months after Rimer's body was found, police released pictures of shoppers filmed by CCTV at the SPAR shop on the evening of the disappearance.[32] Clarkson said that Montes had been visiting York while working as a waiter at a London hotel[32] and was on a hunting trip in Yorkshire on 7 November 1994 when he likely abducted and murdered Rimer that night in a sexually motivated killing, as his preference was to target girls between ages 12 and 14.[37] Part of its storyline concerns children obsessed with ritual, magic and superstition, which Armitage thought reflected the character of the community in Hebden Bridge.[37] In January 2023, the Rimer case was discussed in an episode of David Wilson's Channel 4 series In the Footsteps of Killers, which focused on the murder of Tina Bell.