The Unsolved Murder of Penny Bell
On Thursday 6th June 1991 the body of Penny Bell was found in the car park of the Gurnell Swimming Pool in West London. Penny was found slumped over the steering wheel of her blue Jaguar XJS. She had been stabbed over 50 times. Penny’s killer has never been caught.
Penny, her husband Alistair and their two children lived in the upmarket village of Denham in Buckinghamshire. Penny was a partner working for an employment agency that specialised in the catering industry. The family were quite affluent and lived a middle-class lifestyle.
On the morning of June 6th 1991, Alistair, who worked as an estate agent, left for work in the morning as normal. He noticed that on this particular morning, Penny did not wave him off to work as she normally would. He assumed that it was because they had a lot of tradesmen working on the house as they were having it renovated, and she was just caught up in all the commotion that was going on inside.
That same morning, at about 9.40 am, Penny, told one of the builders that she had an appointment at 9.50 am. She had not mentioned anything about the appointment to Alistair. Penny got in her car and drove off, telling the builders that if they had any problems, to call her at the office.
At approximately 9.45 am, a lady was walking her dog in Black Park in Iver, near Penny’s house…
