Stacey Queripel (c. 1986-January 24, 1993) was a young English girl who was the victim on an unsolved murder after being found strangled to death near her home in Bracknell, Berkshire, England. Although a preliminary examination suggested she might have choked accidentally after her green plastic necklace got caught on a tree branch while playing in the nearby wooded area of South Hill Park, a later autopsy showed she had been deliberately strang...
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Stacey Queripel (c. 1986-January 24, 1993) was a young English girl who was the victim on an unsolved murder after being found strangled to death near her home in Bracknell, Berkshire, England. Although a preliminary examination suggested she might have choked accidentally after her green plastic necklace got caught on a tree branch while playing in the nearby wooded area of South Hill Park, a later autopsy showed she had been deliberately strangled.
Police soon charged the girl's mother, 34-year-old Gilliane Queripel, after finding soil and pollen samples from her shoes matched the area in which her daughter had been found.
Gilliane Queripel denied any part in her daughters death and, after consulting with her lawyer, she claimed she had been running a bath on the night of the murder. When she left to check on her daughter and Stacey's half-sister Lynette, she discovered Stacy's bed was empty except for her favorite teddy bear. After waking her tenant to search his room, she...
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