A police chief threatened to shut down the investigation that finally snared the killer at the centre of a new Netflix drama , a former detective has claimed. Robert Napper stabbed Rachel Nickell to death in July 1992 as she walked on Wimbledon Common, South West London, with her two-year-old son, Alex. At the time, another police squad was investigating a series of rapes carried out by Napper but they failed to link him to the crimes after a string of missed chances. He went on to kill

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