Joan Harrison was 26 years old but heavy drinking and hard living had made
\nher old before her time. In 1975 she was working at a homeless shelter in
\nPreston, England, and staying with her boyfriend, David, who wanted to marry
\nher. She hoped, in the vague way of the hard-core alcoholic, to be able to
\nregain custody of her children, who had been placed in the care of others.
\nOn November 20, 1975, Joan Harrison slept off a bender at her workplace and
\nthen headed for David’s apartment, where she asked him for more drinking
\nmoney. David refused and she left in a snit, heading to visit her friend
\nPauline Storey. Joan was not a habitual prostitute, but she wasn’t one to
\nturn down a chance to earn a few pounds, so when she was approached by a man
\nin the street, she readily agreed to go with him to a disused garage, where
\nthey transacted their business, and then her customer turned violent,
\nbeating and kicking her to death.<\/p>\n
Joan Harrison’s body was found a few days later, and for many years she was
\nbelieved to be a victim of the infamous Yorkshire Ripper, Peter Sutcliffe.
\nIt was only recently that DNA evidence pointed the finger at another man,
\nChristopher Smith.<\/p>\n
Joan’s death led directly to another murder. When Pauline Storey was told
\nabout her friend’s body being discovered, and learned that Joan had been on
\nthe way to visit her, she was understandably upset. She gave the police as
\nmuch information as she could, and this in turn upset her own boyfriend,
\nJames Plunkett. In the sad and sordid subculture inhabited by Joan and her
\nfriends, cooperating with the police was not admired. Plunkett was further
\nangered when Pauline told him she planned to purchase a memorial ad in the
\nlocal newspaper; he considered Joan a worthless drunk and didn’t want any
\nmoney spent memorializing her. The couple argued, and it ended with the
\neight-months-pregnant Pauline stabbing James Plunkett to death. She was
\nacquitted, however.<\/p>\n
Culled From:\u00a0Deliver Us From\u00a0<\/a>Evil<\/a> by David Yallop An unexpected twist on the “violence begets more violence” theme, no? – Aimee<\/em><\/p>\n Here’s sad Joan Harrison: And here’s wretched Christopher Smith: <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Kim <\/strong>sent me an excellent article about Caleb Wilde of Confessions of a Funeral Director<\/a>fame. \u00a0Well worth a read!<\/p>\n Death Becomes Him<\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n
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