Murder of Lindsay Jo Rimer

Lindsay Jo Rimer (17 February 1981—c.1994) was a British thirteen-year-old girl from Hebden Bridge in West Yorkshire in the United Kingdom, who was murdered. She was last seen alive in Hebden Bridge on 7 November 1994, and her body was found in a canal about a mile away on 12 April 1995. Despite repeated appeals for information by police, her murder remains unsolved.

Rimer lived with her parents, two sisters and her brother in the family home on Cambridge Street in Hebden Bridge. She was in Year 9 at Calder High School and was described as a "popular" pupil.

Lindsay was last seen alive on the evening of 7 November 1994. At about 10pm, she left her home to buy a packet of cornflakes from the Spar Supermarket in Crown Street. On her way to the shop she briefly stopped by a local pub, the Trades Club in Holme Street, where her mother was having a drink with a friend. Her mother asked her if she wanted to stay and have a cola with them, but Lindsay said no and continued to the shop. CCTV footage from the shop showed her paying for the cornflakes at 10:22pm. That remains the last known sighting of Lindsay alive. She failed to return home that night, and when she did not turn up for her paper round the following morning, the alarm was raised.

Police initially suspected that Rimer might have run away. There was local speculation that Rimer had been having problems at home, although this was strenuously denied by her family. Rimer's older sister Katie took part in a reconstruction of Rimer's walk to the shop and hundreds of local people joined the police in searches of the area around Hebden Bridge, but no trace of Rimer was found.

Lindsay Rimer's body was found by two local canal workers in the Rochdale Canal, about a mile upstream of the centre of Hebden Bridge, on 12 April 1995. It had been weighed down with a concrete boulder.

The post-mortem was carried out later that day at Royal Halifax Royal Infirmary by Home Office pathologist Professor Mike Green. He concluded that Lindsay Rimer had probably been strangled to death. Her voicebox had been flattened against the spinal column and there were also signs of congestion across the middle of the neck muscles. There were no signs of a sexual assault.

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