The new suspect in the notorious hammer murders of Lin and Megan Russell left behind a chilling suicide note, the Daily Mail can reveal. A relative of Buck has now agreed to provide a DNA sample which will be tested against evidence recovered from the crime scene. Michael Stone has spent almost 30 years in prison after being convicted of killing Lin and Megan and attempting to murder Megan's nine-year-old sister Josie. Now Karen Todner, Stone's solicitor, has revealed that members of Buck's family told her that he left a suicide note before taking his own life in 2000. 'Following two trials at which Michael Stone was found guilty by a jury on both occasions, and an appeal to the High Court, he remains convicted of the murders of Lin and Megan Russell and the attempted murder of Josie Russell in 1996.