It is a long and harrowing list.

Some involve a wall of silence from complicit or terrified witnesses, others involve failed prosecutions leaving more questions than answers, and some happened on foreign soil.

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One harks back to the Victorian era.

Another is one of Britain's most notorious with allegations of police corruption and twisted detectives hampering the investigation from the inside.

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