COPS are linking Morgue Monster David Fuller with another horrific case known as the Cinderella Murder.
Detectives are looking into whether Fuller could be in the frame for the unsolved 1986 murder and rape of Linda Cook in Portsmouth.
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Depraved fuller has pleaded guilty to murder and defiling at least 99 bodies Credit: AFP
The 24-year-old barmaid’s body was dumped on wasteland in the city where necrophiliac Fuller, 67, grew up - just one mile from where he lived as a convicted teenage burglar.
Chillingly, the Cook case was known as the Cinderella Murder because of a distinctive footprint left imprinted on Linda’s body, with the word “Flash”.
Fuller - who sensationally pleaded guilty to the “Bedsit Murders” on Wednesday - also left a bloody footprint at the scene of the Wendy Knell murder in 1987. Wendy was strangled and sexually assaulted.
His second victim Caroline Pierce was also raped and strangled.
HORRIFIC ABUSE
He also admitted to abusing 100 female corpses - including children.
An 18-year-old naval rating named Michael Shirley was wrongly convicted of Linda’s murder and spent 15 years in jail, before being cleared through DNA evidence in 2003.
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Fuller grew up in a terraced house in Angerstein Road, just a mile away from the murder scene in Lake Road.
He lived at the address when he was convicted of 26 burglaries in 1973.
In a further twist, Fuller was caught after a local bobby spotted his distinctive trainer marks as he walked past and noticed they matched prints found at one of the scenes.
Detectives have made clear they are open to new information on father-of-three Fuller.
A source said: “Police are linking Fuller with unsolved cases in his past and this is one of those. He has very strong links to that area.
Police are linking Fuller with unsolved cases in his past and this is one of those
A source
“There’s a lot of clues which point in the right direction.
"They need to look at every corner because what Fuller has admitted is utterly abhorrent and his offending will not be limited to those two killings. There will be others.”
Serial killer expert and author Chris Clark says the vile electrician, 67, could be in the frame.
The former intelligence officer for Norfolk Constabulary said: “David Fuller is an obvious candidate to be a serial killer, but he appeared to stop killing after 1989 when he gained access to mortuaries.
'SATIATED'
“This seems to have satiated him in some way and as upsetting as it is for families of his victims, it probably stopped him murdering again.
“However, the police should be looking at unsolved cases from before 1989 because there are bound to have been further offences.”
Former Met detective Peter Bleksley said: “I would be utterly astonished if Fuller has not carried out more offences.
“This sounds very compelling. Police need to look at every single possibility and now leave no stone unturned.”
'NO STONE UNTURED'
Police sources fear there could be further murder victims and thousands more women who were defiled in morgues where he worked.
Fuller pleaded guilty on Thursday to murdering Caroline and Wendy Knell, 25, in Tunbridge Wells, Kent.
The hospital electrician was arrested last December after a DNA breakthrough ended the 33-year hunt for the “Bedsit Killer”.
Then searches of his home uncovered evidence that Fuller had sex with 100 female corpses over 12 years in the mortuaries at the now-closed Kent and Sussex Hospital and its replacement, Tunbridge Wells Hospital.
He had filmed the unspeakable acts — and horrific images of him defiling bodies aged between nine and 100 were found concealed in a box bedroom he had converted into an office.
Sentencing was adjourned.
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Linda Cook was murdered in 1986 with her killing still unsolved Credit: PA:Press Association 5
'Boring' cycling enthusiast Fuller led a seemingly normal life until he was arrested last year Credit: PA 5
Wendy Knell was senselessly killed by Fuller in Tunbridge Wells in 1987 5
Fuller was caught last year through police matching DNA from the tights of victim Caroline Pierce Credit: PA
Mother of woman whose body was raped in mortuary by necrophile David Fuller speaks out