Qualla: Murder of Lindsay Rimer https://qualla.com/murder-of-lindsay-rimer en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:23 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/9/murder-of-lindsay-rimer-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Murder of Lindsay Rimer https://qualla.com/murder-of-lindsay-rimer Murder of Lindsay Rimer: Introduction https://qualla.com/murder-of-lindsay-rimer/ Photo credit David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lindsay Rimer was thirteen years old, the second of four children, and she walked everywhere in Hebden Bridge. On the evening of 7 November 1994 her mother gave her some money and she set off to the SPAR on Crown Street to buy a packet of cornflakes for the family breakfast. On the way she ducked into the Trades Club on Holme Street, where her mother was having a drink with a friend, and was offered a cola. She said no, she wanted to get back, and she went to the shop. She bought the cornflakes. The CCTV footage from inside the SPAR, of a smiling girl at the till in a striped jumper, would become one of the most haunting images in modern British policing. Nobody saw her again alive.

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/9/murder-of-lindsay-rimer-wp/gcw9-murder-of-lindsay-rimer-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Murder of Lindsay Rimer: Lindsay https://qualla.com/murder-of-lindsay-rimer/ Photo credit David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lindsay Jo Rimer was born on 17 February 1981. She lived with her parents and her two sisters and her brother on Cambridge Street, on the steep slope above the canal. She was in Year 9 at Calder High School and was a popular pupil, the sort of teenager described by everyone who k...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/9/murder-of-lindsay-rimer-wp/gcw9-murder-of-lindsay-rimer-lindsay.mp3 0:06 2 full Murder of Lindsay Rimer: The Canal https://qualla.com/murder-of-lindsay-rimer/ Photo credit David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Five months passed. The family appealed for information again and again. Posters went up in shop windows the length of the Calder Valley. Then on 12 April 1995, two canal workers dredging the Rochdale Canal at Rawden Mill Lock, about a mile from the centre of Hebden Bridge, found...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/9/murder-of-lindsay-rimer-wp/gcw9-murder-of-lindsay-rimer-the-canal.mp3 0:06 3 full Murder of Lindsay Rimer: Thirty Years of Asking https://qualla.com/murder-of-lindsay-rimer/ Photo credit David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. More than 5,000 people have been spoken to. Over 1,200 vehicles were checked in the first year alone. Names came and went as theories: a stolen Honda Civic seen near where Lindsay was last spotted, ruled out when the driver was found to have been speaking to a police officer at t...

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]]> Fri, 29 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/c/w/9/murder-of-lindsay-rimer-wp/gcw9-murder-of-lindsay-rimer-thirty-years-of-asking.mp3 0:06 4 full Murder of Lindsay Rimer: A Town That Remembers https://qualla.com/murder-of-lindsay-rimer/ Photo credit David Dixon, CC BY-SA 2.0. Lindsay's parents have spent the rest of their lives asking. Her mother wrote in The Guardian in 2006 that she did not know what happened to her daughter, that the not-knowing was a separate grief from the loss. Her sisters now do the public appeals. Her father did not live to se...

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