In more than 30 years of crime reporting, I had never come face-to-face with such evil. When he got no response from the pusher, he strolled up Sally Anne's street because he once lived there. After killing Sally Anne, Dixie fled the scene as the Metropolitan Police launched one of its largest homicide investigations. Similarly, Sally Anne's plasterer boyfriend Lewis was arrested following her death and questioned for four days before DNA eliminated him too. It remains to be seen what other crimes – even murder – Dixie might have committed dating back to the Eighties.