SARAH HARPER was just ten years old when serial killer Robert Black savagely murdered her.
Everything you need to know about her sad demise is right here.
Who was Robert Black’s victim Sarah Harper?
Sarah was a ten-year-old girl from the working-class district of Morley in Leeds.
She was one of four schoolgirls killed by Black across the UK.
While he was convicted of four killings, detectives believe he committed as many as 18.
Black’s reign of terror came to an end in 1990, when he was apprehended near Stow in Scotland with a six-year-old girl discovered in the back of his van.
After pleading guilty, he was convicted of her kidnapping.
He was also linked to Sarah’s death, as well as two other unsolved child killings in the 1980s involving 11-year-old Susan Maxwell and five-year-old Caroline Hogg from Edinburgh.
He denied all of them, but was found guilty on all of them.
What happened to Sarah Harper?
Sarah vanished from the Leeds neighborhood of Morley around 7.50 p.m. on March 26, 1986.She left her house to buy a loaf of bread from a small store only 100 yards away.
Sarah purchased a loaf of bread and two packets of Crisps from the shop around 7:55 p.m., according to the owner.
Sarah was last seen alive by two girls strolling down an alleyway near her Brunswick Place house.
When she had not returned home by 8.20 pm, her mother, Jackie and sister briefly searched the surrounding streets before reporting her missing to the West Yorkshire police.
An intensive search was immediately initiated, and over 200 police officers were assigned to the case on a full-time basis.
House-to-house enquiries were conducted across Morley, over 3,000 residences were examined, over 10,000 leaflets were disseminated, and 1,400 witness testimonies were acquired.
Sarah’s mother, Jackie, feared her daughter was dead and held a news conference on April 3 to direct the abductor to divulge the location of the body.
Where was Sarah Harper found?
Four weeks after her abduction, a dog walker discovered her body floating in the Trent River in Wilford, Nottingham.
She died between five and eight hours after her kidnapping, according to a post-mortem examination.
She was sexually raped severely and suffered internal injuries as well as damage to her face, forehead, head, and neck before being tossed in the water.
Sarah had been chained and gagged before drowning.
