Triple-killer Levi Bellfield has confessed to being in the area where a mother and daughter were bludgeoned to death - but denied playing a part in their deaths.
Lin Russell, 45, her daughters Megan, six, and Josie, nine, were beaten with a hammer in the frenzied attack in 1996 which sent shockwaves around the nation.
The family were ambushed as they walked home along a country lane in Chillenden, Kent with their dog, after a school swimming gala.
Lin, Megan and dog Lucy died, and drug addict Michael Stone was arrested the following year and is serving three life sentences. But no scientific or identification evidence links him to the scene and he has always protested his innocence.
Serial killer Bellfield, 53, has now admitted visiting the area on two occasions and to dating a woman who lived nearby.
He also said he owned a beige Ford similar to one seen at the crime scene some 25 years ago.
But the 53-year-old said in a statement he wishes to 'set the record straight' in a bid to distance himself from the murders.
Serial killer Levi Bellfield (pictured), 53, reportedly confessed to being near the area where Lin and Megan Russel were bludgeoned to death in Chillenden, Kent, in July 1996
Shaun Russell, with wife Lin and daughters Megan (second left) and Josie at an Italian restaurant in 1996 before their horrifying murders
Police activity at the scene in a small copse in Kent where Lin and Megan Russell were beaten to death in a frenzied hammer attack
Lin and her two daughters - Megan (pictured) and Josie, nine - and their dog Lucy, were tied up and savagely beaten with a hammer in a brutal attack which shocked the nation
Michael Stone (pictured), 61, is currently serving three life sentences for the murders of Lin and her daughter at the same jail as Bellfield in Durham, but claims he is
