{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"Midnight Mystery Archive","title":"She Was Murdered in 1967. The Man Who Did It Was 92 When He Was Finally Convicted. | Louisa Dunne | Part 1","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":1196,"description":"Something different for the Midnight Mystery Archive: this case is solved. That's not how these episodes usually start. But the fact that it was solved is not the end of the story — it's why the story matters.\n \nLouisa Dunne was murdered in Bristol, England on June 28th, 1967. She was 75 years old. In November 2024, 57 years later, a 92-year-old man named Ryland Headley was arrested at his home in Ipswich. In June 2025, he was convicted of her murder and rape. In July 2025, he was sentenced to life in prison with a minimum of 20 years. He will die there.\n \nPart 1 is about Louisa and about what happened. Part 2 is about how they finally found him.\n \nLouisa was born Louisa Jane Jarrett in 1892. She married Edwin Parker, a Bristol city councillor, and was on track to become the mayoress of one of England's major cities. They had two daughters, Iris and Edna. Edwin died in 1945. She remarried a man named John Dunne in 1952; he died in 1961. By 1967, Louisa had been a widow for six years. Her daughters were estranged. Her world had contracted to 58 Britannia Street in Easton, East Bristol — a tight terraced row where neighbors noticed everything, where raised voices carried between walls, and where Louisa was known as the woman who was always at her front door, always ready to talk.\n \nKevin spends time with who Louisa actually was before getting into the crime. She had been involved in the birth of the labor movement in Bristol. She was politically engaged, publicly visible, connected to the civic machinery of her city. By 1967, she was an elderly widow living alone on a quiet street. That trajectory — from political participant to isolated elderly woman — is the sharpest context for understanding why Ryland Headley selected her.\n \nOn the night of June 27th — 28th, 1967, Headley, who was 34 years old and also living in Bristol at the time, forced open the rear window of Louisa's terraced house. He raped her. When she screamed and struggled — and she did, that's in the...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/JhFVuE-xAb0ydWIP0tTwyNSjGGXUQr64w-4hdQP9SN0/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS80MzEz/MzBkYjc5OGViYTdk/ZjhjMTZmZDJhMDc1/OGU3NS5wbmc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}