Show's new discoveries in unsolved Rita killing

A TOP criminologist believes he has identified two “persons of interest” in the unsolved murder of an RAF servicewoman more than 50 years ago.

- David Stephenson

David Wilson, along with Silent Witness actress Emilia Fox, made the breakthrough while investigating the case for Channel 4’s In The Footsteps of Killers.

Rita Ellis, 19, was murdered in an attack on November 11, 1967. Her body was found by a dog walker near her base in RAF Halton, Buckinghamshire.

She had been due to babysitting for Wing Commander Roy Watson and his wife on the evening she was sexually assaulted and strangled.

Wilson already had an interest in the case as he lives in the area. He said: “The local paper, Buckingham Live, had continued to do updates on the case. So when the series was commissioned I suggested it because it was obvious a DNA profile of the killer had been generated.”