Lady of the Lake killer: Family of Gordon Parks hopes new DNA evidence will prove he never killed his wife 42 years ago
The family of the notorious Lady in the Lake killer Gordon Park is hoping that his name will be cleared 42 years after his wife, 30-year-old Carol Park, disappeared from their home in Leece, close to Barrow-in Furness, Cumbria in July 1976. The authorities have since launched investigations at least three times and it has taken them at almost 30 years to solve one of Britain's most intriguing if grim murder mysteries. Park's husband, Gordon, had said that she had not been feeling too well so she did not go with him and three children to Blackpool for the day. When the father and the children got back home in the evening that same day, they found that Carol had disappeared. The woman's body was found 21 years later at the bottom of a lake with the cause of death being determined as bludgeoning with an ice axe.