Rachel
Moran (1982 - 1st January 2003)
If you don’t believe in malevolent spirits, fiends and
poltergeists but find they exist in evil people you’ve probably read many real
crime books. Many of them refer to the “Body In The Cupboard” murder which
relates to Rachel Moran, a 21-year old woman, who was murdered and hidden in a
cupboard.
Rachel went
missing on New Year's Day 2003 as she walked the half-mile from her parents'
home to her flat in Saxcourt, Hull. It was a
20-minute walk but she never arrived. Michael Little, 23, high on drugs
approached Rachel from behind and frenziedly stabbed her in the back, chest and
neck more than 20 times. At his flat he wrapped the body in a curtain and
squashed it into a tiny cupboard outside the flat. The cupboard was
approximately three feet cubed. Police did not find the corpse for 28 days. An
autopsy told Little had had sex with Rachel but it could not be established if
she was dead or alive.
At the scene
Little told police, "I can't be normal - I must be evil. A normal person
would not do that." However later at court he tried to dodge blame saying
his friend Marc Fuller killed Rachel. He told the court he attended a New
Year's Eve party, drank heavily and took ecstasy and LSD before returning home
to find his friend in his lounge with Rachel. He said he went to bed with
Rachel but his friend saw this shouted, “She’s mine!” then killed Rachel. The
jury did not believe Little and he was sentenced to life.
Rachel’s
sister Vanda wrote a book about her sister’s murder, “Rachel, A Stolen Life.”
However aged 41 she joined her sister in the cemetery having died from
complications following exposure to chickenpox. Theirs parents blamed the death
on the grief and loss of losing their first daughter, saying Vanda’s general
heath went downhill from the day her sister went missing.
Rachel’s sister Vanda wrote a book
about the murder. Sadly they now lie together…
Sisters reunited…
