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The Wrong Man on the Common - The Murder of Rachel Nickell

2026-10-04 · · The Gravest Crimes, Solved · 13 min read

On the morning of Wednesday 15 July 1992, Rachel Nickell went for a walk.

She was 23. She lived with her partner and their 2-year-old son in a flat near Wimbledon Common, a large area of open heath and woodland in London, England, about 12 km south-west of the city centre.

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