Ipswich Murders - Is there a link with Natalie, found in 1992?

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Leeds United will turn up on Saturday to play Ipswich Town at Portman Road.Kick off three o'clock. Thirty thousand fans will bring some sort of normality to the old Suffolk port town.
The Portman Road club is on the edge of the red light district where the subject of the Ipswich manhunt evidently picked up his five victims before killing them and displaying their bodies like trophies on the outskirts of town.
Suffolk police have announced new details - all the girls were naked apart from their jewellery - but we do not know whether they have found DNA evidence of the killer.

According to police sources, the killer almost certainly has a record of violence against prostitutes and will have killed before. There could be links with the unsolved murder of a 16-year-old prostitute called Natalie Pearman, whose body was found in 1992 at Ringland Hill near Norwich, 50 miles from here.
As with the five Ipswich girls, no attempt had been made to hide Natalie's body. Seven months after Natalie's murder, an Ipswich prostitute called Mandy Duncan vanished. Her body has never been found.

If there is a link, why would the killer wait 14 years before striking again? One theory is that he has spent the intervening years in a secure hospital or in jail, for another crime.
Whatever the truth, the killer has nothing to lose and is probably crazed with his success. When he kills again, it will be another prostitute, almost certainly in another town.

Extra police have been assigned to Ipswich from other forces. There might have been more had the Met not been similarly stretched at present - with a critical terrorist alert.
Dozens of surveillance teams from police forces throughout the UK have been seconded to the capital where a militant Islamic 'spectacular' is expected before Christmas.