The Murder of Leanne Tiernan

Liz Jin
6 min readMay 23, 2022

The 16-year-old English schoolgirl went missing after going Christmas shopping

Leanne Tiernan was only 16-years-old when she was abducted and murdered; image source.

A teenage girl was abducted and found brutally murdered in Leeds, England, in 2000. With no fingerprints or other biological evidence to assist detectives, the search for the girls’ killer seemed hopeless at first.

But thankfully, the killer left behind a treasure trove of other forensic evidence that led…

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Liz Jin

“I wake up in the morning with a desire to both save the world and savor the world. That makes it hard to plan my day.”