article_snippet.sent: Colin Pitchfork was jailed for life in 1988 for raping and killing two schoolgirls.
article_snippet.sent: Colin Pitchfork strangled 15-year-old Lynda Mann to death after raping 15-year-old Lynda Mann on a deserted footpath in the Leicestershire village of Narborough in 1983.
article_snippet.sent: Three years later Colin Pitchfork raped and killed Dawn Ashworth, also 15, less than a mile from where Colin Pitchfork murdered Lynda.
article_snippet.sent: On November 22, 1983, the body of 15-year-old Lynda Mann was found raped and strangled on a deserted footpath running between a cemetery and a psychiatric hospital in the Leicestershire village of Narborough.
article_snippet.sent: Almost three years later, in July 1986, the body of another 15-year-old, Dawn Ashworth, from nearby Enderby, was found in almost identical circumstances in a wooded area, less than a mile from the scene of Lynda's murder.
article_snippet.sent: The dead girl had been taking a shortcut home from school instead of The dead girl usual route, but there can be little doubt that The dead girl assailant, believing her assailant had 'got away with it' once, was on the look-out for other teenagers to assault, terrorise and murder in the same way.
article_snippet.sent: Initially, a local man confessed to Lynda's murder and a local man blood was found to be the same group as blood found at the scene.
highlights_snippet.sent: Colin Pitchfork raped and murdered two 15-year-old girls in the 1980s .
  