{"id":54634,"date":"2016-06-05T16:00:17","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T16:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/dci_julie_mackay_solves_a_32_year_old_murder_case_which_she_began_working_o\/"},"modified":"2016-06-05T16:00:17","modified_gmt":"2016-06-05T16:00:17","slug":"dci_julie_mackay_solves_a_32_year_old_murder_case_which_she_began_working_o","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54634","title":{"rendered":"DCI Julie MacKay solves a 32 year old murder case which she began working on in 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There was something unique about DCI Julie MacKay\u2019s statement outside Bristol Crown Court on May 9 this year &#8211; the day Christopher Hampton admitted his guilt in murdering 17-year-old Melanie Road in 1984.<\/p>\n<p>MacKay spoke from the heart; blonde hair whipped by the wind, barely using her notes, and in a way that was so personal, so affecting, that she single-handedly showed the human face of Britain\u2019s police.<\/p>\n<p>Her conviction that she would find Melanie\u2019s killer &#8211; and her belief in her own intuition \u201d\u201c shone through. Here was DCI Jane Tennison, played expertly by Helen Mirren in Prime Suspect, brought to life.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t describe it, but I always knew I was going to be the one to solve Melanie Road, she tells me. \u201cI could feel it right here in my tummy.\u201d\u009d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/women\/life\/dci-julie-mackay-i-always-knew-id-crack-the-murder-of-bath-teena\">Read it all<\/a> from the Sunday Telegraph.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There was something unique about DCI Julie MacKay\u2019s statement outside Bristol Crown Court on May 9 this year &#8211; the day Christopher Hampton admitted his guilt in murdering 17-year-old Melanie Road in 1984. MacKay spoke from the heart; blonde hair<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=54634\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,50,199,168,114,98,578,112,34,124,126],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-54634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-england-uk","category-ethics-moral-theology","category-law-legal-issues","category-marriage-family","category-policefire","category-sexuality","category-theology","category-violence","category-women"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54634\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}