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The Independent
18-02-2025
- The Independent
New image of woman killed in 1975 released by investigators
Investigators trying to identify a woman who was killed while walking barefoot on the A1 50 years ago have released a picture of what she may have looked like. The mystery of so-called 'Baldock Woman' could be a step closer to being solved after researchers also revealed what they believe could have been her name. She was last seen in February 1975 walking without shoes along the A1 outside the market town of Baldock in Hertfordshire when she was hit by at least one car. Even after 50 years, we are confident that someone out there can help provide the one important clue that can help us reunite Baldock Woman with her identity Mark Greenhalgh, Locate International She was found without any shoes but, because her feet were not dirty, it is not thought she had been barefoot for long. Volunteer investigators with Locate International, a charity which investigates cold cases, have worked with a couple who think they knew her in the 1970s and produced new images by a forensic artist who recreates images of the unknown dead. The couple first came forward after an appeal in June 2010 and identified her as a French woman believed to be between 23 and 25 going by the name of either Anna or Odile. Investigators with the charity have now found a mention of the name Odile Ledoux with a similar description in the Cambridge Evening News on November 25, 1972. A charity spokesman said: 'This is potentially a major development in the investigation and we would appeal to anyone who recognises the name to come forward. But until all lines of inquiry are ruled out, we will continue to investigate all leads.' 'Baldock Woman' stayed with the couple in the early 70s and they said she was a regular at the Stotfold Social Club near Baldock and worked at an industrial estate in nearby Henlow, Bedfordshire before travelling to study at a language school in Cambridge. The article stated Odile Ledoux was an English student at Cambridgeshire College of Arts and Technology, now Anglia Ruskin University, and lived on Sturton Street in Cambridge. The team working on the case believe she was from or had lived in the north of Paris and had friends in Newquay, Cornwall. Mark Greenhalgh, the charity's chief executive officer, said: 'Even after 50 years, we are confident that someone out there can help provide the one important clue that can help us reunite Baldock Woman with her identity. 'The window to do so is closing, however. If she was alive today, she would be in her late 60s to mid 70s, so we are eager for people to come forward before it is too late. 'For years, our volunteers have worked diligently to identify Baldock Woman. Just one clue, however small, can help progress our investigation, or send it in a new direction, so please come forward.' The charity is now actively investigating the name Odile Ledoux along with the name Anne, Anna or a variation thereof and ask for anyone with information to get in touch by emailing appeals@ calling 0300 102 1011 or visiting
BBC News
18-02-2025
- BBC News
New image of unidentified woman killed on the A 50 years ago
New images have been released of an unidentified woman who was killed when she was struck by a car 50 years ago as she was walking along a main International, a charity which investigates cold cases of missing and unidentified people, said the woman was struck by one or more vehicles on the A1 near Baldock, Hertfordshire, in the early hours of 18 February numerous appeals her identity has still not been confirmed, but in 2010 police discovered she may have been French and had lived in Police said: "We never completely close unsolved murder or unexplained death cases and any information we receive will be treated with the upmost importance by the Cold Case team." When the woman was found on the southbound carriageway of the A1 near the A507 slipway she was not wearing shoes and her feet were not an appeal in June 2010, which contained a facial reconstruction of the woman, a couple came forward to say they recognised her as a young French woman who had stayed with them in the early Liversedge had met her in 1972 when she was hitch-hiking on London's North Circular road during a thunderstorm. She then went on to stay with David and his wife, Barbara, at their home near Baldock and gave her name as worked making souvenirs at Plug International on an industrial estate in Henlow, Bedfordshire, and would regularly visit Stotfold Social Club. She also had friends in Newquay, then went to Cambridge to study at a language International said it had uncovered an article from the Cambridge Evening News on 25 November 1972 which mentions an Odile Ledoux, a 20-year-old French woman studying English in Cambridge, who was not injured in a house fire."Since this latest breakthrough we are now actively investigating the name Odile Ledoux in the UK and in France," a spokesman for Locate International said. Locate International said a statement from a milkman who had picked up her up shortly before her death said she had appeared scared or charity said it also believed she may have come into physical harm at some point in the months building up to her statements also suggest she may have used the name Anne, Anna, or a variation thereof, as well as Greenhalgh, Locate International's CEO, said: " If she was alive today, she would be in her late 60s to mid-70s, so we are eager for people to come forward before it is too late." Follow Beds, Herts and Bucks news on BBC Sounds, Facebook, Instagram and X.
