In June of 1987, Wendy Knell, a 25-year-old shop manager, was raped and murdered in her London flat. Five months later, on November 24, with that case still unsolved, police received a missing-person report on 20-year-old Caroline Pierce, a London restaurant manager. Her body was found near St. Mary, on December 15, and police publicly speculated on a connection between the two killings. On November 29, an unnamed suspect in the case of Wendy Knell was charged with rape, but his incarceration did not halt the rash of murders. Three days after Caroline Pierce was discovered, searchers at Colchester -- fifty miles northeast of London -- retrieved the decomposing remains of 18-year-old Fiona Gallant from the slope of a highway embankment. As in London, the Colchester case was believed to be linked with an on-going series of rapes in the area. At this writing, no solution has been announced for the murders in London and Colchester. Police refuse to speculate on possible links between Fiona Gallant's death and the crimes in London, while the killer (or killers) remains at large.