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A wartime killer who used the blackout to escape justice is one of the oldest crimes among more than two dozen Greater Manchester cold cases highlighted in a new crime map revealing 1,000 unsolved murders.

Every case has been the subject of a major police investigation, with some dating back to the pre-war era and others occurring in the last decade.

This exclusive list was compiled from Freedom of Information (FOI) requests to every police force in the country, supported by research through a wide variety of local newspaper archives.

Cases include many seemingly random attacks, usually on women, carried out by strangers with no apparent motive.

The oldest Greater Manchester cold case included in the files is the wartime murder of 17-year-old Minnie Stott in in 1940.

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