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On Dec. 17, 2000, a London resident found a human torso in the River Thames near Church Road in Battersea. The torso contained a distinctive tattoo of a red rose with the name “Zoe.” The victim wore a light-coloured top with an attached chain around the waist, sold by a market trader who had worked in a few areas in and around London and the English counties of Hertfordshire, Kent, and Surrey, in August and September 2000.
The killer had cut the victim’s body in half with a sharp instrument such as a samurai sword, a post-mortem showed. showed. However, officials could not determine whether the victim was alive when dismembered. The torso bore no apparent injuries consistent with murder. It was not weighed down or wrapped when police recovered it. The body had been in the water for seven to 21 days.
Two weeks later, Zoe’s family identified the torso victim as the missing young woman. More than 30 police officers worked the case.
CCTV footage captured Zoe on Dec. 6, 2000, in the company of two unidentified white males in Hounslow, West London.
Zoe had links to people in central London’s West End and Charing Cross areas. She also knew several acquaintances throughout England.