Shelley Morgan, 33, (pictured) was stabbed multiple times in a frenzied attack after dropping her children off at school in Bristol on June 11 1984
Postcards could hold the key to solving the brutal sexually-motivated murder of a mother-of-two 35 years ago, police believe.
Shelley Morgan, 33, was stabbed multiple times in a frenzied attack after dropping her children off at school in Bristol on June 11 1984.
Detectives from Avon and Somerset Police's major crime review team believe two postcards may hold vital information to the identity of the killer - but they cannot say exactly how they may fit into the investigation.
However, it prompts the theory Mrs Morgan may have taken the pictures before the killer made off with her camera - which has never been found.
DS Sarah Barnston of the major crime review team, said: 'Both locations are significant as they are linked to the areas where Shelley was heading for on the day she disappeared, and where her body was found five months later.'
The US-born art college student was heading towards Leigh Woods near Ashton Court, where she planned to spend the day sketching and taking photographs.
When she failed to pick her children up or return home to Dunkerry Road in Bedminster, the police were called and a missing person inquiry was launched.
Four months later, on October 14, children playing in a wooded copse off Long Lane in Backwell Hill discovered her remains.
A photo of a tear-off post card of a scene of St Andrews Church, from the direction of Backwell Hill
Mrs Morgan's camera, a 35mm Olympus OM20 camera with serial number 1032853, has never been found
A tear-off post card of a scene overlooking the River Avon in Bristol, taken from Bower Ashton just below the Clifton Suspension Bridge. The postcard is from a calendar sold by the local Bristol Hospice charity
A post-mortem examination concluded Mrs Morgan, who was married, had suffered multiple stab wounds and there was evidence the attack had been sexually motivated.
The tear-off postcards are from a calendar sold by the local Bristol Hospice charity in the 1980s or 1990s.
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