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OAP arrested over ‘Lady in the Lake’ murder after woman found dead, gagged & dumped 34 YEARS AGO
A PENSIONER has been arrested over the Lady in the Lake murder after a woman was gagged and dumped in the water 34 years ago.
Shani Warren, 26, was discovered submerged in a lake in Taplow, Buckinghamshire, in April 1987 after she vanished while mowing the lawn.
The lake in Taplow where Shani Warren’s body was found[/caption]
Shani Warren’s car parked by a layby on April 19, 1987[/caption]
The case was one of the Thames Valley Police’s most obscure unsolved murders and today detectives revealed they have arrested a 65-year-old man on suspicion of Shani’s murder.
“Officers have arrested a man in connection with a murder that occurred in 1987,” a spokesman for the force said in a statement.
“The 65-year-old man was arrested this morning and is currently in police custody.
“He was arrested on suspicion of the murder of Shani Warren, whose body was found in a lake at Taplow in April 1987.”
No further details of the suspect have been given.
For the first three days after Shani’s body was found, cops treated her death as a suicide.
A murder probe was only launched after a full-scale post-mortem examination – wasting three valuable days of investigation.
Shani disappeared from a home bought for her by her parents in Stoke Poges which she shared with two housemates.
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Her body was found in the Taplow lake by Marjorie Arnold who was out walking her dog.
The German Shepherd showed an unusual interest in something in the lake and when Arnold investigated, she stumbled across Shani’s bound and gagged body lying face-down in the water.
Despite being reconstructed on the BBC TV series Crimewatch, no one was ever apprehended for her murder and the coroner at the time recorded an open verdict.
