Operation Anagram: Suzanne Lawrence

Operation Anagram: Suzanne Lawrence

The case of Suzanne Lawrence is a memorable, infamous and confusing one.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/police-probe-unsolved-murders-for-tobin-link-2024780.html
http://www.doenetwork.org/cases-int/2462dfuk.html

On one hand, between 1994 and 2007, it was assumed that, with no evidence, Suzanne Lawrence was the victim of child-killer Robert Black. Black had killed three girls in the 1980s and in 2011, was convicted of killing a fourth. While I will put up suspected victims' readings on here, including Christine Markham, Mary Boyle and Cheryl Morrien, as well as ones I personally think are his, I have always considered Suzanne to be a Tobin victim.

Tobin became a suspect about 2007, to which I think there is certainly evidence for. She disappeared during the summer and Tobin was known to holiday in Norfolk. The exact date of her disappearance I have failed to find, but she resided in Harold Hill, Essex, which is on the way to Norfolk; using a small detour on Google Maps from the quickest route, it goes right through Harold Hill. She has similar facial features to Dinah McNicol, as well as suspected Tobin victims, including Barbara Mayo, Susan Long and Pamela Exall.

Right, let me do this.

Some time before I did Suzanne Lawrence, I received the ‘Isa’ rune and the ‘Berkano’ rune. Unfortunately, since ‘Isa’ means nothing has grown, this means she is dead. The ‘Berkano’ rune means, as the rune was reversed, abandon, loss of control, blurring of consciousness, deceit.

In the process of reading the runes, I accidentally took out ten runes instead of nine, but I will include the tenth anyway, as a possibility, but I will not take the tenth one as seriously.

The first rune is the ‘Jera’. This means, since it is on its side, sudden setbacks, reversals, repetition, bad timing, conflict. This would certainly explain if her murderer was a serial killer. Suzanne happened to be in the wrong place at the wrong time. Repetition as this was done before. Conflict; struggle?

The second rune is ‘Mannaz’, reversed. Depression, mortality, blindness, cunning, slyness, manipulation, to expect no help now. The cunning and manipulation do suggest Peter Tobin as her abductor, since he is not the sort (as far as I know) to grab a girl and throw her in his car. Maybe he faked being lost? As soon as she was in his car, she’d have no help.

The third rune is ‘Berkano’, this time upright. This one is confusing, as this is usually a positive rune, but the rune can mean ‘fertility’, ‘arousal of desire’ or ‘a love affair’. It would certainly describe a desire, from either Tobin or Black, the chance to finally have another victim. But with Tobin, ‘love affair’ may mean that he did not have a partner at the moment, being some years before he would meet Cathy Wilson. Maybe it was in his mind a twisted version of that?

The fourth rune is ‘Dagaz’. Interestingly, this rune means, translated ‘day or dawn’, perhaps a meaning to when exactly Suzanne died? The rune is on its side, which means ‘competition, ending, limit, coming full circle, blindness, hopelessness’. So my guess is that Suzanne was held overnight and killed around dawn.

As Tobin may have been heading toward Norfolk (being July, it was time for holidays) my guess is that he drove toward Norfolk after taking her, perhaps signing in to some quiet hotel or boarding house, holding Suzanne in the bedroom and killing her after a night of raping her?

But if Black took her, this would make less sense, as his being a psychopath and the fact he held Caroline Hogg - dead or alive is unknown - for four days, surely means he would have held the girl longer.

This is a very sad circumstance, but the thing remains is that she was a vulnerable fourteen-year-old and this is what happens when we don’t have AMBER Alerts and sex offender registers.

The fifth rune is ‘Gebo’. This means, as the rune is on its side, greed, loneliness, dependence, over-sacrifice, obligation, toll, privation, bribery. This could confuse me. Obviously, if Tobin is the killer, the greed makes sense, as well as privacy. But bribery is very confusing. Perhaps Tobin bribed a hotel clerk or someone not to tell anyone he was at the hotel? This would be especially likely if he phoned up and booked under his own name.

The six rune is ‘Wunjo’. It is reversed, so it means sorrow, strife, intoxication, possession by higher forces, impractical enthusiasm, raging frenzy. This can easily describe Tobin when he has killed or is killing, the intoxication could mean that he had some anxiety pills, as he did with Vicky and Dinah, or maybe simply got some alcohol and got Suzanne forcibly drunk. This could also mean he was happy that something was going his way, which would be wrong as it was illegal.

The seventh rune is ‘Raido’. The rune was on its side, meaning crisis, rigidity, injustice, irrationality, disruption, dislocation, delusion, possibly death. Well, this certainly describes what was happening, but crisis? Maybe not just for Suzanne. Tobin would want to dispose of her body quickly. But maybe there were a number of guests at wherever he was staying? Or he didn’t have an opportunity to dump her body where he wanted because of crowds? As for dislocating her body, it could be abandoning the body at a certain place – if true, she is probably not buried where he killed her – or maybe actually breaking her body to fit inside a garbage bag or suitcase or whatever he left her in. Remember, Dinah was bent double.

The eighth rune is ‘Hagalaz’, on its side. Natural disaster, catastrophe, loss of power, pain, suffering, loss, hardship, sickness and crisis. Again, all could describe Suzanne but maybe a small natural disaster, like a cliff fall, could have prevented Tobin from disposing of her quickly. We’d need to look through any records of cliff falls in July 1979 for this.

It would be a personal catastrophe for Tobin, perhaps driving around for a long time to look for somewhere to dump the body. Traffic jams? Also, when he did dump the body, he may have done as he did after Vicky and Angelika’s deaths, as well as the attempted murder of two girls in 1993. He could have faked illness and took shelter in a Norfolk hospital.

The ninth rune is ‘Fehu’ on its side. Loss of personal property, some sort of failure. Greed, burnout, cowardice, stupidity, dullness, slavery, bondage. Maybe he even forgot which suitcase or bag held Suzanne? Or stupidly left her body in the countryside during an awful traffic jam? Whatever happened, it seems disposing of her body would have been a problem. Perhaps someone even tried to help him with his bags in a traffic jam or something and he hurriedly pushed them back in his car? Perhaps he missed a spot check and he nearly was caught by someone?

All of this suggest some sort of traffic problem or collision and when the police arrived, he would have been shaking. He almost certainly would have given a false name. Again, like the cliff fall theory, this would actually be easy to look up. No-one would have noticed, even after Tobin’s arrest, because everyone was so certain Black took Suzanne.

The last rune is ‘Tiwaz’ on its side. Creative flow is blocked, injustice, imbalance,  strife, conflict, dwindling passion, difficulties in communication and separation.

Now, to find out where she is.

‘Spring’ seems to have a connection, either in place name or when she will be found. Hawk, earth, ship. Maybe close to Great Yarmouth? Birch, poplar, maybe crown. Hope.

Furniture store or something like that, maybe a cleaning company or handyman, as Tobin was, something with furnishing.

Shelter of some kind, human or animal.

Riding or horses, perhaps forging? Forging could mean Tobin forging a signature, but it could mean metal-working, so Great Yarmouth is also a likely guess.

Hail or maybe grain, farming? Wealth, either emotional or money, or forest. This could go with birch, poplar, earth, grain or maybe even horses.

A good guess is that she could be near farmland or woodland, perhaps near Great Yarmouth docks, very likely on the edge of an urban area.

Whatever the answer is, she is sadly gone and these are my best examples at what may have happened.

Quality Timber Stables

The Stables Hotel in Henham Park,

The Stables Lodge in Barney,

 Whiterails Livery Farm,

Shelter at Whitefriars House in Norwich,

Dogs Trust in Snetterton, County Cat Shelter,

Yaxham Bus Shelter,

Crown Hotel,

 The Crown Inn,

The Crown Inn in Rudham,

 The Crown Inn in Sheringham,

The Crown Hotel,

Crown Catering Equipment,

Crown Rest Home,

 Crown Care,

Banningham Crown Inn,

Hawk and Owl Trust,

Fired Earth Supply Shop in Norwich,

Earth and Turf Downham Market,

 Earth Wood and Stone Flooring Shop,

Sticky Earth Café,

Spring Floral Design,

Spring Farm Campsite,

Spring Lodge,

Alrose Products Manufacture,

 Solid Wooden Furniture,

Full Circle Suppliers,

King Street Secondhand Shop,

 The Ship Inn in Holt,

The Ship Hotel in Brancaster,

The Old Ship Inn,

Thetford Forest Park,

 The Broads,

Woodland Park Equestrian Centre (located on the edge of The Broads)

Larch Wood,

Westfields Poplar Farm,

Poplar Landscapes